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Ruminantia :: Ruminantia (n. pl.) A division of Artiodactyla having four stomachs. This division includes the camels, deer, antelopes, goats, sheep, neat cattle, and allies..

Glanders :: Glanders (n.) A highly contagious and very destructive disease of horses, asses, mules, etc., characterized by a constant discharge of sticky matter from the nose, and an enlargement and induration of the glands beneath and within the lower jaw. It may transmitted to dogs, goats, sheep, and to human beings..

Dib :: Dib (n.) One of the small bones in the knee joints of sheep uniting the bones above and below the joints.

Water Brain :: Water brain () A disease of sheep; gid.

Stray :: Stray (v. i.) Having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a strayhorse or sheep..

Bleat :: Bleat (v. i.) To make the noise of, or one like that of, a sheep; to cry like a sheep or calf..

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..

Yolk :: Yolk (n.) An oily secretion which naturally covers the wool of sheep.

Basil :: Basil (n.) The skin of a sheep tanned with bark.

Parchment :: Parchment (n.) The skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animal, prepared for writing on. See Vellum..

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

Trip :: Trip (n.) A herd or flock, as of sheep, goats, etc..

Lamb :: Lamb (n.) The young of the sheep.

Crook :: Crook (n.) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep..

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..

Catgut :: Catgut (n.) A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, esp. of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, etc..

Gare :: Gare (n.) Coarse wool on the legs of sheep.

Blackleg :: Blackleg (n.) A disease among calves and sheep, characterized by a settling of gelatinous matter in the legs, and sometimes in the neck..

Feed :: Feed (n.) That which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder; pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed for sheep..

Haggis :: Haggis (n.) A Scotch pudding made of the heart, liver, lights, etc., of a sheep or lamb, minced with suet, onions, oatmeal, etc., highly seasoned, and boiled in the stomach of the same animal; minced head and pluck..

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