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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun sheep has 3 senses

sheep(n = noun.animal) - woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat;

is a kind of

bovid

is a member of genus ovis, ovis, flock, fold, herd

has particulars: ewe, ram, tup, wether, black sheep, domestic sheep, ovis aries

has parts: trotter, withers

sheep(n = noun.person) - a timid defenseless simpleton who is readily preyed upon;

is a kind of

simple

simpleton

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

is a kind of

follower

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CIDE DICTIONARY

sheep, n. sing. & pl. [OE. shep, scheep, AS. scp, sceáp; akin to OFries. skp, LG. & D. schaap, G. schaf, OHG. scāf, Skr. chāga. Sheepherd.].

Any one of several species of ruminants of the genus Ovis, native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia. [1913 Webster]
" The domestic sheep (Ovis aries) varies much in size, in the length and texture of its wool, the form and size of its horns, the length of its tail, etc. It was domesticated in prehistoric ages, and many distinct breeds have been produced; as the merinos, celebrated for their fine wool; the Cretan sheep, noted for their long horns; the fat-tailed, or Turkish, sheep, remarkable for the size and fatness of the tail, which often has to be supported on trucks; the Southdowns, in which the horns are lacking; and an Asiatic breed which always has four horns." [1913 Webster]
A weak, bashful, silly fellow. Ainsworth. [1913 Webster]
Fig.: The people of God, as being under the government and protection of Christ, the great Shepherd. [1913 Webster]

Rocky mountain sheep.(Zoöl.) See Bighorn. -- Maned sheep. (Zoöl.) See Aoudad. -- Sheep bot (Zoöl.), the larva of the sheep botfly. See Estrus. -- Sheep dog (Zoöl.), a shepherd dog, or collie. -- Sheep laurel (Bot.), a small North American shrub (Kalmia angustifolia) with deep rose-colored flowers in corymbs. -- Sheep pest (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. -- Sheep run, an extensive tract of country where sheep range and graze. -- Sheep's beard (Bot.), a cichoraceous herb (Urospermum Dalechampii) of Southern Europe; -- so called from the conspicuous pappus of the achenes. -- Sheep's bit (Bot.), a European herb (Jasione montana) having much the appearance of scabious. -- Sheep pox (Med.), a contagious disease of sheep, characterixed by the development of vesicles or pocks upon the skin. -- Sheep scabious. (Bot.) Same as Sheep's bit. -- Sheep shears, 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. -- Sheep sorrel. (Bot.), a prerennial herb (Rumex Acetosella) growing naturally on poor, dry, gravelly soil. Its leaves have a pleasant acid taste like sorrel. -- Sheep's-wool (Zoöl.), the highest grade of Florida commercial sponges (Spongia equina, variety gossypina). -- Sheep tick (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. -- Sheep walk, a pasture for sheep; a sheep run. -- Wild sheep. (Zoöl.) See Argali, Mouflon, and Oörial.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

sheep, n. (pl. same)
1 any ruminant mammal of the genus Ovis with a thick woolly coat, esp. kept in flocks for its wool or meat, and noted for its timidity.
2 a bashful, timid, or silly person.
3 (usu. in pl.) a a member of a minister's congregation. b a parishioner.

Idiom

separate the sheep from the goats divide into superior and inferior groups (cf. Matt. 25:33). sheep-dip
1 a preparation for cleansing sheep of vermin or preserving their wool.
2 the place where sheep are dipped in this. sheep-run an extensive sheepwalk, esp. in Australia. sheep's-bit a plant, Jasione montana, resembling a scabious.

Derivative

sheeplike adj.

Etymology

OE scep, sc{aelig}p, sceap

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THESAURUS

sheep

Babbitt, Columbia, Karakul, Kerry Hill, Lincoln, Merino, Middle American, Panama, Philistine, Romeldale, Romney, Suffolk, Wensleydale, anal character, ape, assembly, bellwether, bourgeois, brethren, burgher, churchgoers, class, compulsive character, conformer, conformist, congregation, conventionalist, copier, copycat, copyist, counterfeiter, cuckoo, dissembler, dissimulator, echo, echoer, echoist, ewe, ewe lamb, faker, flock, fold, forger, formalist, hypocrite, imitator, impersonator, impostor, jumbuck, laity, lamb, lambkin, laymen, methodologist, middle-class type, mime, mimer, mimic, mimicker, minyan, mocker, mockingbird, model child, monkey, mutton, nonclerics, nonordained persons, organization man, parish, parishioners, parrot, pedant, people, perfectionist, phony, plagiarist, plastic person, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot, poseur, precisian, precisianist, ram, seculars, simulator, society, square, teenybopper, teg, trimmer, tup, wether, yeanling, yes-man

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sheep

Animal

N animal, animal kingdom, fauna, brute creation, beast, brute, creature, critter, wight, created being, creeping thing, living thing, dumb animal, dumb creature, zoophyte, mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, crustacean, shellfish, mollusk, worm, insect, arthropod, microbe, microbe, animalcule, alligator, crocodile, saurian, dinosaur (extinct), snake, serpent, viper, eft, asp, aspick, frog, toad, trout, bass, tuna, muskelunge, sailfish, sardine, mackerel, ant, mosquito, bee, honeybee, tardigrade, spider, biped, quadruped, webfoot, flocks and herds, live stock, domestic animals, wild animals, game, ferae naturae, beasts of the field, fowls of the air, denizens of the sea, black game, black grouse, blackcock, duck, grouse, plover, rail, snipe, horse, cattle, kine, ox, bull, bullock, cow, milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthorn, sheep, lamb, lambkin, ewe, ram, tup, pig, swine, boar, hog, sow, steer, stot, tag, teg, bison, buffalo, yak, zebu, dog, cat, dog, hound, pup, puppy, whelp, cur, mongrel, house dog, watch dog, sheep dog, shepherd's dog, sporting dog, fancy dog, lap dog, toy dog, bull dog, badger dog, mastiff, blood hound, grey hound, stag hound, deer hound, fox hound, otter hound, harrier, beagle, spaniel, pointer, setter, retriever, Newfoundland, water dog, water spaniel, pug, poodle, turnspit, terrier, fox terrier, Skye terrier, Dandie Dinmont, collie, feline, puss, pussy, grimalkin, gib cat, tom cat, fox, Reynard, vixen, stag, deer, hart, buck, doe, roe, caribou, coyote, elk, moose, musk ox, sambar, bird, poultry, fowl, cock, hen, chicken, chanticleer, partlet, rooster, dunghill cock, barn door fowl, feathered tribes, feathered songster, singing bird, dicky bird, canary, warbler, finch, aberdevine, cushat, cygnet, ringdove, siskin, swan, wood pigeon, vermin, varmint, pest, animal, zoological equine, bovine, vaccine, canine, feline, fishy, piscatory, piscatorial, molluscous, vermicular, gallinaceous, rasorial, solidungulate, soliped.

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fescue

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Noun

HYPHEN

fes=cue

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun fescue has 1 sense

fescue(n = noun.plant) fescue grass, festuca elatior, meadow fescue - grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns;

is a kind of grass

is a member of festuca, genus festuca

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CIDE DICTIONARY

fescue, n. [OE. festu, OF. festu, F. fétu, fr. L. festuca stalk, straw.].

A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read. Sterne. [1913 Webster]
"To come under the fescue of an imprimatur." [1913 Webster]
An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum. Chapman. [1913 Webster]
The style of a dial. [1913 Webster]
A grass of the genus Festuca. [1913 Webster]

Fescue grass (Bot.), a genus of grasses (Festuca) containing several species of importance in agriculture. Festuca ovina is sheep's fescue; F. elatior is meadow fescue.

fescue, v. i. & t.

To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue. Milton. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

fescue, n. any grass of the genus Festuca, valuable for pasture and fodder.

Etymology

ME festu(e) f. OF festu ult. f. L festuca stalk, straw