Definition of sheep

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Sheep (n. sing. & pl.) A weak, bashful, silly fellow..

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Teg :: Teg (n.) A sheep in its second year; also, a doe in its second year..
Sheepmaster :: Sheepmaster (n.) A keeper or feeder of sheep; also, an owner of sheep..
Sheep-shearing :: Sheep-shearing (n.) A feast at the time of sheep-shearing.
Southdown :: Southdown (n.) A Southdown sheep.
Wooled :: Wooled (a.) Having (such) wool; as, a fine-wooled sheep..
Sheepcote :: Sheepcote (n.) A small inclosure for sheep; a pen; a fold.
Gut :: Gut (n.) One of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a sheep, used for various purposes. See Catgut..
Herd :: Herd (v. i.) To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company; as, sheep herd on many hills..
Down :: Down (prep.) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep; -- usually in the plural..
Fellmonger :: Fellmonger (n.) A dealer in fells or sheepskins, who separates the wool from the pelts..
Stellar :: Stell (v. t.) A partial inclosure made by a wall or trees, to serve as a shelter for sheep or cattle..
Tick :: Tick (n.) Any one of several species of dipterous insects having a flattened and usually wingless body, as the bird ticks (see under Bird) and sheep tick (see under Sheep)..
Charbon :: Charbon (n.) A very contagious and fatal disease of sheep, horses, and cattle. See Maligmant pustule..
Taw :: Taw (v. t.) To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, and the like, by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them..
Yolk :: Yolk (n.) An oily secretion which naturally covers the wool of sheep.
Drover :: Drover (n.) One who drives cattle or sheep to market; one who makes it his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market..
Shepherdess :: Shepherdess (n.) A woman who tends sheep; hence, a rural lass..
Fleeced :: Fleeced (a.) Furnished with a fleece; as, a sheep is well fleeced..
Burrhel :: Burrhel (n.) The wild Himalayan, or blue, sheep (Ovis burrhel)..
Fleece :: Fleece (n.) The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time..
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