Sheep

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun ·sg & ·pl A weak, bashful, silly fellow.

II. Sheep ·noun ·sg & ·pl Fig.: The people of God, as being under the government and protection of Christ, the great Shepherd.

III. Sheep ·noun ·sg & ·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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Sheep
Are of different varieties. Probably the flocks of Abraham and Isaac were of the wild species found ...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Sheep
Sheep were an important part of the possessions of the ancient Hebrews and of eastern nations genera...

William Smith's Bible Dictionary
Sheep-faced
·adj Over-bashful; sheepish. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Sheep-headed
·adj Silly; simple-minded; stupid. ...

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Sheep-shearer
·noun One who shears, or cuts off the wool from, sheep. ...

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Sheep-shearing
·noun Act of shearing sheep. II. Sheep-shearing ·noun A feast at the time of sheep-shearing. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Sheep-fold
A strong fenced enclosure for the protection of the sheep gathered within it (Num. 32:24; 1 Chr. 17:...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Sheep-gate
One of the gates of Jerusalem mentioned by Nehemiah (3:1, 32; 12:39). It was in the eastern wall of ...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Sheep-market
Occurs only in John 5:2 (marg., also R.V., "sheep-gate"). The word so rendered is an adjective, and ...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
sheep-pest
n. a common Australian weed, Acama ovina, Cunn., N.O. Rosaceae, found in allthe colonies; so called...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
sheep-run
n. See run. ...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
sheep-sick
n. Used of pastures exhausted forcarrying sheep. Compare English screw-sick, paint-sick,nail-sick, ...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
sheep-wash
(used as verb) to wash sheep. The word isalso used as a noun, in its ordinary English senses of (1)...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
dodded sheep
sheep without horns. N. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
neptune's sheep
Waves breaking into foam, called white horses. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
tormenter of sheep skin
A drummer. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose