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noun. A domesticated ruminant mammal (Ovis aries) having a thick coat, raised in many breeds for its wool, edible flesh, or hide.

noun. Any of various wild ruminant mammals related to and resembling the domestic sheep, such as the aoudad, bighorn sheep, and mouflon.

noun. Leather made from the skin of one of these animals.

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noun. A person regarded as timid, weak, or submissive.

noun. One who is easily swayed or led.

To pasture sheep upon; use as a sheep-range.

noun. A ruminant mammal of the family Bovidæ, subfamily Orinæ, and genus Ovis; specifically, Ovis aries, domesticated in many varieties, and one of the animals most useful to man.

noun. Leather made from sheepskin, especially split leather used in bookbinding.

noun. In contempt, a silly fellow.

noun. A shepherd.

noun. Any one of several species of ruminants of the genus Ovis, native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia.

noun. A weak, bashful, silly fellow.

noun. Fig.: The people of God, as being under the government and protection of Christ, the great Shepherd.

noun. See Bighorn.

noun. See Aoudad.

noun. the larva of the sheep botfly. See Estrus.

noun. a shepherd dog, or collie.

noun. a small North American shrub (Kalmia angustifolia) with deep rose-colored flowers in corymbs.

noun. an Australian plant (Acæna ovina) related to the burnet. The fruit is covered with barbed spines, by which it adheres to the wool of sheep.

noun. an extensive tract of country where sheep range and graze.

noun. a cichoraceous herb (Urospermum Dalechampii) of Southern Europe; -- so called from the conspicuous pappus of the achenes.

noun. (Bot.), a European herb (Jasione montana) having much the appearance of scabious.

noun. a contagious disease of sheep, characterixed by the development of vesicles or pocks upon the skin.

noun. Same as Sheep's bit.

noun. shears in which the blades form the two ends of a steel bow, by the elasticity of which they open as often as pressed together by the hand in cutting; -- so called because used to cut off the wool of sheep.

noun. a prerennial herb (Rumex Acetosella) growing naturally on poor, dry, gravelly soil. Its leaves have a pleasant acid taste like sorrel.

noun. the highest grade of Florida commercial sponges (Spongia equina, variety gossypina).

noun. a wingless parasitic insect (Melophagus ovinus) belonging to the Diptera. It fixes its proboscis in the skin of the sheep and sucks the blood, leaving a swelling. Called also sheep pest, and sheep louse.

noun. a pasture for sheep; a sheep run.

noun. See Argali, Mouflon, and Oörial.

noun. A woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis.

noun. A timid, shy person who is easily led by others.

noun. Plural form of shoop.

noun. woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat

noun. a timid defenseless simpleton who is readily preyed upon

noun. a docile and vulnerable person who would rather follow than make an independent decision

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