sheep : Idioms & Phrases

• (Zoöl.), a breed of sheep with short crooked legs and long back. It originated in Massachusetts in 1791; called also the otter breed.

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• noun wild sheep of northern Africa
  aoudad; Barbary sheep; audad; Ammotragus lervia; arui.
  

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• noun wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns
  bighorn; Ovis canadensis; cimarron; Rocky Mountain bighorn; bighorn sheep.
  

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• noun a reckless and unprincipled reprobate
  scapegrace.
  
• noun sheep with a black coat
  

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• one in a family or company who is unlike the rest, and makes trouble.

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• a long-wooled breed of sheep, formerly common in the counties of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester, Eng.; so called from the Cotswold Hills. The breed is now chiefly amalgamated with others.

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• noun large white wild sheep of northwestern Canada and Alaska
  Ovis montana dalli; Dall's sheep; Dall sheep.
  

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• noun large white wild sheep of northwestern Canada and Alaska
  Ovis montana dalli; Dall's sheep; Dall sheep.
  

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• noun any of various breeds raised for wool or edible meat or skin
  Ovis aries.
  

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• noun wild sheep of northern Africa
  aoudad; Barbary sheep; audad; Ammotragus lervia; arui.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the aoudad.
• . (Zoöl.) See Aoudad.

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• noun Asiatic wild sheep with exceptionally large horns; sometimes considered a variety of the argali (or Ovis ammon)
  Marco Polo sheep; Ovis poli.
  

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• noun Asiatic wild sheep with exceptionally large horns; sometimes considered a variety of the argali (or Ovis ammon)
  Marco Polo sheep; Ovis poli.
  

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• noun white sheep originating in Spain and producing a heavy fleece of exceptional quality
  merino.
  

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• noun any wild sheep inhabiting mountainous regions
  

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• noun large shaggy-coated bovid mammal of Canada and Greenland; intermediate in size and anatomy between an ox and a sheep
  Ovibos moschatus; musk ox.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the musk ox.

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• . See Ancon sheep, under Ancon.

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• noun wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns
  bighorn; Ovis canadensis; cimarron; Rocky Mountain bighorn; bighorn sheep.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) See Bighorn.
• .(Zoöl.) See Bighorn.

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• noun a bell hung round the neck of a sheep so that the sheep can be easily located
  

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• (Zoöl.), the larva of the sheep botfly. See Estrus.

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• noun larvae are parasitic on sheep
  sheep botfly; Oestrus ovis.
  

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• noun a liquid mixture containing pesticides in which sheep are dipped to kill parasites
  

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• noun any of various usually long-haired breeds of dog reared to herd and guard sheep
  sheepdog; shepherd dog.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a shepherd dog, or collie.

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• noun cultivated for sheep pasturage in upland regions or used as a lawn grass
  sheep fescue; Festuca ovina.
  

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• noun mostly of Central America
  

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• noun larvae are parasitic on sheep
  sheep botfly; Oestrus ovis.
  

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• noun wingless fly that is an external parasite on sheep and cattle
  sheep ked; sheep tick; Melophagus Ovinus.
  

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• noun North American dwarf shrub resembling mountain laurel but having narrower leaves and small red flowers; poisonous to young stock
  lambkill; pig laurel; Kalmia angustifolia.
  

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

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• noun a pen for sheep
  fold; sheepcote; sheepfold.
  

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• (Bot.), 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.

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• noun perennial prostrate mat-forming herb with hoary woolly foliage
  Raoulia lutescens; sheep plant; Raoulia australis.
  
• noun cushion-forming New Zealand herb having leaves densely covered with tawny hairs
  Haastia pulvinaris; sheep plant.
  

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• noun a fungus with a whitish often circular cap and a white pore surface and small pores and a white central stalk; found under conifers; edible but not popular
  Albatrellus ovinus.
  

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• (Med.), a contagious disease of sheep, characterixed by the development of vesicles or pocks upon the skin.

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• noun a disease of the liver (especially in sheep and cattle) caused by liver flukes and their by-products
  liver rot; black disease; distomatosis.
  

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

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• . (Bot.) Same as Sheep's bit.

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• 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.

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• noun small plant having pleasantly acid-tasting arrow-shaped leaves; common in dry places
  sheep sorrel; Rumex acetosella.
  

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

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• noun wingless fly that is an external parasite on sheep and cattle
  sheep ked; sheep tick; Melophagus Ovinus.
  
• noun parasitic on sheep and cattle as well as humans; can transmit looping ill in sheep (acute viral disease of the nervous system); a vector for Lyme disease spirochete
  Ixodes ricinus; sheep tick.
  

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• (Zoöl.), 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.

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• a pasture for sheep; a sheep run.

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• (Bot.), a cichoraceous herb (Urospermum Dalechampii) of Southern Europe; so called from the conspicuous pappus of the achenes.

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

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• noun cultivated for sheep pasturage in upland regions or used as a lawn grass
  sheep fescue; Festuca ovina.
  

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• noun small plant having pleasantly acid-tasting arrow-shaped leaves; common in dry places
  sheep sorrel; Rumex acetosella.
  

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Sheep's"-eye` noun

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1. A modest, diffident look; a loving glance; -- commonly in the plural.

   I saw her just now give him the languishing eye, as they call it; . . . of old called the sheep's-eye. Wycherley.

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Sheep's-foot` noun

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1. A printer's tool consisting of a metal bar formed into a hammer head at one end and a claw at the other, -- used as a lever and hammer.

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

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Sheep"-faced` adjective

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1. Over-bashful; sheepish.

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Sheep"-head`ed adjective

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1. Silly; simple-minded; stupid. Taylor (1630)

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Sheep"-shear`er noun

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1. One who shears, or cuts off the wool from, sheep.

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Sheep"-shear`ing noun

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1. Act of shearing sheep.
2. A feast at the time of sheep-shearing. Shak.

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• noun wingless fly that is an external parasite on sheep and cattle
  sheep ked; sheep tick; Melophagus Ovinus.
  
• noun parasitic on sheep and cattle as well as humans; can transmit looping ill in sheep (acute viral disease of the nervous system); a vector for Lyme disease spirochete
  Ixodes ricinus; sheep tick.
  

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• noun a small sheepdog resembling a collie that was developed in the Shetland Islands
  Shetland sheepdog; Shetland.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a celebrated breed of shortwooled, hornless sheep, highly valued on account of the delicacy of their flesh. So called from the South Downs where the breed originated.

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• (Zoöl.), a merino.

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• to throw with the feet upwards, in such a manner as to prevent its rising again.

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• noun perennial prostrate mat-forming herb with hoary woolly foliage
  Raoulia lutescens; sheep plant; Raoulia australis.
  
• noun cushion-forming New Zealand herb having leaves densely covered with tawny hairs
  Haastia pulvinaris; sheep plant.
  

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• (Bot.), a white woolly plant (Raoulia eximia) of New Zealand, which grows in the form of large fleecy cushions on the mountains.

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• noun large white wild sheep of northwestern Canada and Alaska
  Ovis montana dalli; Dall's sheep; Dall sheep.
  

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• noun undomesticated sheep
  

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• . (Zoöl.) See Argali, Mouflon, and Oörial.

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