Definition of sheep

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Sheep (n. sing. & pl.) Fig.: The people of God, as being under the government and protection of Christ, the great Shepherd..

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Merino :: Merino (a.) Of or pertaining to a variety of sheep with very fine wool, originally bred in Spain..
Range :: Range (v.) That which may be ranged over; place or room for excursion; especially, a region of country in which cattle or sheep may wander and pasture..
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..
Tallow :: Tallow (v. t.) To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten; as, tallow sheep..
Sheep-shearing :: Sheep-shearing (n.) A feast at the time of sheep-shearing.
Sheepmaster :: Sheepmaster (n.) A keeper or feeder of sheep; also, an owner of sheep..
Sheeprack :: Sheeprack (n.) The starling.
Sheepish :: Sheepish (a.) Like a sheep; bashful; over-modest; meanly or foolishly diffident; timorous to excess.
Smitt :: Smitt (v. t.) Fine clay or ocher made up into balls, used for marking 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..
Tag :: Tag (n.) A sheep of the first year.
Propagate :: Propagate (v. t.) To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit tree..
Wildfire :: Wildfire (n.) A disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the skin..
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..
Sheep''s-eye :: Sheep's-eye (n.) A modest, diffident look; a loving glance; -- commonly in the plural..
Basan :: Basan (n.) Same as Basil, a sheepskin..
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..
Belt :: Belt (v. t.) To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep..
Chamois :: Chamois (n.) A soft leather made from the skin of the chamois, or from sheepskin, etc.; -- called also chamois leather, and chammy or shammy leather. See Shammy..
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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