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.

Checker: Truman

Unserious Contents or Definition

To dream of shearing them, denotes a season of profitable enterprises will shower down upon you. To see flocks of sheep, there will be much rejoicing among farmers, and other trades will prosper. To see them looking scraggy and sick, you will be thrown into despair by the miscarriage of some plan, which promised rich returns. To eat the flesh of sheep, denotes that ill-natured persons will outrage your feelings. See Lamb and Ram.

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Examples

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