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Cot :: Cot (n.) A pen, coop, or like shelter for small domestic animals, as for sheep or pigeons; a cote..

Sheep-shearing :: Sheep-shearing (n.) Act of shearing sheep.

Bellwether :: Bellwether (n.) A wether, or sheep, which leads the flock, with a bell on his neck..

Gid :: Gid (a.) A disease of sheep, characterized by vertigo; the staggers. It is caused by the presence of the C/nurus, a larval tapeworm, in the brain. See C/nurus..

Dinmont :: Dinmont (n.) A wether sheep between one and two years old.

Mortling :: Mortling (n.) An animal, as a sheep, dead of disease or privation; a mortling..

Trail :: Trail (n.) The entrails of a fowl, especially of game, as the woodcock, and the like; -- applied also, sometimes, to the entrails of sheep..

Suigothus :: Suint (n.) A peculiar substance obtained from the wool of sheep, consisting largely of potash mixed with fatty and earthy matters. It is used as a source of potash and also for the manufacture of gas..

Artiodactyla :: Artiodactyla (n. pl.) One of the divisions of the ungulate animals. The functional toes of the hind foot are even in number, and the third digit of each foot (corresponding to the middle finger in man) is asymmetrical and paired with the fourth digit, as in the hog, the sheep, and the ox; -- opposed to Perissodactyla..

Ewe :: Ewe (n.) The female of the sheep, and of sheeplike animals..

Tallow :: Tallow (n.) The suet or fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds, separated from membranous and fibrous matter by melting..

Baaing :: Baaing (n.) The bleating of a sheep.

Sheepskin :: Sheepskin (n.) The skin of a sheep; or, leather prepared from it..

Lungworm :: Lungworm (n.) Any one of several species of parasitic nematoid worms which infest the lungs and air passages of cattle, sheep, and other animals, often proving fatal. The lungworm of cattle (Strongylus micrurus) and that of sheep (S. filaria) are the best known..

Cattle :: Cattle (n. pl.) Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine..

Feed :: Feed (v. t.) To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle; as, if grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep..

Wind :: Wind (n.) A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing..

Braxy :: Braxy (n.) A diseased sheep, or its mutton..

Fodder :: Fodder (n.) That which is fed out to cattle horses, and sheep, as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc..

Sheep-shearer :: Sheep-shearer (n.) One who shears, or cuts off the wool from, sheep..

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