Sheep

[ʃiːp] or [ʃip]

Definition

(noun.) woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat.

(noun.) a docile and vulnerable person who would rather follow than make an independent decision; 'his students followed him like sheep'.

(noun.) a timid defenseless simpleton who is readily preyed upon.

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Definition

(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.

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

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

Typist: Meg

Definition

n.sing. and pl. the well-known ruminant mammal covered with wool: leather made from sheep-skin: a silly and timid fellow.—ns. Sheep′-bīt′er (Shak.) one who practises petty thefts; Sheep′-bīt′ing robbing those under one's care like an ill-trained shepherd-dog; Sheep′-cote an enclosure for sheep; Sheep′-dog a dog trained to watch sheep: (slang) a chaperon.—adj. Sheep′-faced sheepish bashful.—ns. Sheep′-farm′er Sheep′-fold a fold or enclosure for sheep: a flock of sheep; Sheep′-head Sheep's′-head a fool a stupid and timid person: an American fish of the family Sparid allied to the perches so called from the shape and colour of the head; Sheep′-hook a shepherd's crook.—adj. Sheep′ish like a sheep: bashful: foolishly diffident.—adv. Sheep′ishly.—ns. Sheep′ishness; Sheep′-louse a parasitic dipterous insect; Sheep′-mar′ket a place where sheep are sold; Sheep′-mas′ter a master or owner of sheep; Sheep′-pen an enclosure for sheep; Sheep′-pest the sheep-tick; Sheep′-pox a contagious eruptive disease of sheep variola ovina; Sheep′-run a tract of grazing country for sheep; Sheep's′-eye a modest diffident look: a loving wishful glance; Sheep's′-foot a printer's tool with a claw at one end for prizing up forms; Sheep′-shank (Scot.) the shank of a sheep—hence something slender and weak: a nautical knot for temporarily shortening a rope; Sheep′-shearer one who shears sheep; Sheep′-shearing; Sheep′-shears a kind of shears used for shearing sheep; Sheep′-sil′ver money formerly paid by tenants for release from the service of washing the lord's sheep; Sheep′-skin the skin of a sheep: leather prepared from the skin of a sheep: a deed engrossed on sheep-skin parchment; Sheep′-steal′er; Sheep′-steal′ing; Sheep's′-wool a valuable Florida sponge; Sheep′-tick an insect which attacks the sheep sucking its blood and raising a tumour; Sheep′walk the place where the sheep pasture; Sheep′-wash a lotion for vermin on the sheep or to preserve its wool—also Sheep′-dip; Sheep′-whis′tling tending sheep.—Black sheep the disreputable member of a family or group.

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