Definition of sheep

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Sheep (n. sing. & pl.) Any one of several species of ruminants of the genus Ovis, native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia..

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Unfold :: Unfold (v. t.) To release from a fold or pen; as, to unfold sheep..
Tiver :: Tiver (n.) A kind of ocher which is used in some parts of England in marking sheep.
Baste :: Baste (v. t.) To mark with tar, as sheep..
Sheepish :: Sheepish (a.) Like a sheep; bashful; over-modest; meanly or foolishly diffident; timorous to excess.
Daglock :: Daglock (n.) A dirty or clotted lock of wool on a sheep; a taglock.
Sheep-shearer :: Sheep-shearer (n.) One who shears, or cuts off the wool from, sheep..
Rinderpest :: Rinderpest (n.) A highly contagious distemper or murrain, affecting neat cattle, and less commonly sheep and goats; -- called also cattle plague, Russian cattle plague, and steppe murrain..
Half-blooded :: Half-blooded (a.) Proceeding from a male and female of different breeds or races; having only one parent of good stock; as, a half-blooded sheep..
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..
Basil :: Basil (n.) The skin of a sheep tanned with bark.
Wildfire :: Wildfire (n.) A disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the skin..
Southdown :: Southdown (n.) A Southdown sheep.
Basan :: Basan (n.) Same as Basil, a sheepskin..
Sheepish :: Sheepish (a.) Of or pertaining to sheep.
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..
Split :: Split (v. t.) To divide lengthwise; to separate from end to end, esp. by force; to divide in the direction of the grain layers; to rive; to cleave; as, to split a piece of timber or a board; to split a gem; to split a sheepskin..
Yolk :: Yolk (n.) An oily secretion which naturally covers the wool of sheep.
Bane :: Bane (n.) A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot..
Sheep-shearing :: Sheep-shearing (n.) A feast at the time of sheep-shearing.
Sheephook :: Sheephook (n.) A hook fastened to pole, by which shepherds lay hold on the legs or necks of their sheep; a shepherd's crook..
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