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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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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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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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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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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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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun sorrel has 5 senses

sorrel(n = noun.plant) oxalis, wood sorrel - any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis;

is a kind of herb, herbaceous plant

is a member of genus oxalis

has particulars: common wood sorrel, cuckoo bread, oxalis acetosella, shamrock, bermuda buttercup, english-weed, oxalis cernua, oxalis pes-caprae, creeping oxalis, creeping wood sorrel, oxalis corniculata, goat's foot, goatsfoot, oxalis caprina, oxalis violacea, violet wood sorrel, oca, oka, oxalis crenata, oxalis tuberosa

sorrel(n = noun.plant) dock, sour grass - any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine;

is a kind of herb, herbaceous plant

is a member of genus rumex, rumex

has particulars: garden sorrel, rumex acetosa, sour dock, rumex acetosella, sheep's sorrel, sheep sorrel, bitter dock, broad-leaved dock, rumex obtusifolius, yellow dock, french sorrel, garden sorrel, rumex scutatus

sorrel(n = noun.plant) hibiscus sabdariffa, jamaica sorrel, red sorrel, roselle, rozelle - East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber;

is a kind of hibiscus

sorrel(n = noun.food) common sorrel - large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces;

is a kind of green, greens, leafy vegetable

is a part of garden sorrel, rumex acetosa, sour dock

sorrel(n = noun.animal) - a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color;

is a kind of

equus caballus

horse

Adjective sorrel has 1 sense

sorrel(s = adj.all) brownish-orange - of a light brownish color;

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CIDE DICTIONARY

sorrel, a. [F. saur, saure, OF. sor, sore, probably of Teutonic origin; cf. D. zoor dry, LG. soor; the meaning probably coming from the color of dry leaves. See Sear, a., and cf. Sorel.].

Of a yellowish or redish brown color; as, a sorrel horse. [1913 Webster]

sorrel, n.

A yellowish or redish brown color. [1913 Webster]

sorrel, n. [F. surelle, fr. sur sour, fr. OHG. sr sour. See Sour.].

One of various plants having a sour juice; especially, a plant of the genus Rumex, as Rumex Acetosa, Rumex Acetosella, etc. [1913 Webster]

Mountain sorrel. (Bot.) See under Mountain. -- Red sorrel. (Bot.) (a) A malvaceous plant (Hibiscus Sabdariffa) whose acid calyxes and capsules are used in the West Indies for making tarts and acid drinks. (b) A troublesome weed (Rumex Acetosella), also called sheep sorrel. -- Salt of sorrel (Chem.), binoxalate of potassa; -- so called because obtained from the juice of Rumex Acetosella, or Rumex Axetosa. -- Sorrel tree (Bot.), a small ericaceous tree (Oxydendrum arboreum) whose leaves resemble those of the peach and have a sour taste. It is common along the Alleghanies. Called also sourwood. -- Wood sorrel (Bot.), any plant of the genus Oxalis.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

sorrel, n. any acid-leaved herb of the genus Rumex, used in salads and for flavouring.

sorrel, adj. & n.
--adj. of a light reddish-brown colour.
--n.
1 this colour.
2 a sorrel animal, esp. a horse.
3 Brit. a sorel.

Etymology

ME f. OF sorel f. sor yellowish f. Frank.

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THESAURUS

sorrel

bay, bayard, beige, brown, brownish, brownish-yellow, brunet, buckskin, calico pony, chestnut, chocolate, cinnamon, cocoa, cocoa-brown, coffee, coffee-brown, dapple-gray, drab, dun, dun-brown, dun-drab, ecru, fawn, fawn-colored, fuscous, gray, grege, grizzle, hazel, khaki, lurid, nut-brown, olive-brown, olive-drab, paint, painted pony, piebald, pinto, roan, seal, seal-brown, sepia, skewbald, snuff-colored, tan, taupe, tawny, toast, toast-brown, umber, umber-colored, walnut, walnut-brown, yellowish-brown

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Redness

N redness, red, scarlet, vermilion, carmine, crimson, pink, lake, maroon, carnation, couleur de rose, rose du Barry, magenta, damask, purple, flesh color, flesh tint, color, fresh color, high color, warmth, gules, ruby, carbuncle, rose, rust, iron mold, cinnabar, cochineal, fuchsine, ruddle, madder, Indian red, light red, Venetian red, red ink, annotto, annatto, realgar, minium, red lead, redness, rubescence, rubicundity, rubification, erubescence, blush, red, reddish, rufous, ruddy, florid, incarnadine, sanguine, rosy, roseate, blowzy, blowed, burnt, rubicund, rubiform, lurid, stammell blood red, russet buff, murrey, carroty, sorrel, lateritious, rubineous, rubricate, rubricose, rufulous, rose-colored, ruby-colored, cherry-colored, claret-colored, flame- colored, flesh-colored, peach-colored, salmon-colored, brick-colored, brick-colored, dust-colored, blushing, erubescent, reddened, red as fire, red as blood, red as scarlet, red as a turkey cock, red as a lobster, warm, hot, foxy.

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