sheep

Definition of sheep in English English dictionary
sheepspan>: A timid, shy person who is easily led by others
sheepspan>: A woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis. Male: ram (intact), wether (castrated). Female: ewe. Young: lamb. Carnal: lamb (youth), mutton (adult)
sheepspan>: plural form of shoop
sheepspan>: ovis
sheepspan>: {n} a genus of useful animals, a dolt
A sheepspan>: ovine
A sheepspan>: mutton
A sheepspan>: jumbuck
sheepspan>: A weak, bashful, silly fellow
sheepspan>: Any one of several species of ruminants of the genus Ovis, native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia
sheepspan>: A woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis. Male: ram (intact), wether (castrated). Female: ewe. Young: lamb. Carnal: lamb, mutton
sheepspan>: Name given to a subject in a psi test who believes in psi; see also Goat, Sheep-Goat Effect
sheepspan>: woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat
sheepspan>: People who take awards and polls seriously, rather than be insulted by them How else can one describe someone who only likes something if it is popular?
sheepspan>: a docile and vulnerable person who would rather follow than make an independent decision; "his students followed him like sheep"
sheepspan>: the tanned skin of a sheep used for binding, a soft almost grainless leather which can be coloured but which is not a hard wearing material
sheepspan>: Originally valued for their meat, sheep were domesticated around 9000 BC in the Middle East, and originated with the moufflon in the Near East, the urial in Neolithic Europe, and the argali in Central Asia Soay sheep are similar to early breeds Im 1745, the agriculturalist Robert Bakewell produced the Leicester breed which had twice the amount of meat as earlier breeds See Sheep farming
sheepspan>: Fig
sheepspan>: woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat a docile and vulnerable person who would rather follow than make an independent decision; "his students followed him like sheep"
sheepspan>: disapproval If you say that a group of people are like sheep, you disapprove of them because if one person does something, all the others copy that person. see also black sheep. Ruminants (bovid genus Ovis) that have scent glands in the face and hind feet. Horns, if present, are more divergent than those of goats. Species range from 80 to 400 lb (35 to 180 kg). The coat of wild species consists of outer hair underlain by wool. Sheep graze in flocks, preferably on short, fine grasses and legumes. They have been domesticated from at least 5000 BC in the Middle East, Europe, and Central Asia. Most domesticated breeds produce fine wool; the few that produce only hair or coarse or long wool are generally raised for meat. The flesh of mature sheep is called mutton; that of immature sheep is called lamb. mountain sheep Black Sheep sheep laurel
sheepspan>: {i} variety of cud-chewing animal related to the goat (raised for wool, meat or skin); skin of a sheep; docile and submissive person
sheepspan>: A sheep is a farm animal which is covered with thick curly hair called wool. Sheep are kept for their wool or for their meat. grassland on which a flock of sheep were grazing
sheepspan>: are of different varieties Probably the flocks of Abraham and Isaac were of the wild species found still in the mountain regions of Persia and Kurdistan After the Exodus, and as a result of intercourse with surrounding nations, other species were no doubt introduced into the herds of the people of Israel They are frequently mentioned in Scripture The care of a shepherd over his flock is referred to as illustrating God's care over his people (Ps 23: 1, 2; 74: 1; 77: 20; Isa 40: 11; 53: 6; John 10: 1-5, 7-16)
sheepspan>: a timid defenseless simpleton who is readily preyed upon
sheepspan>: The people of God, as being under the government and protection of Christ, the great Shepherd

sheep

Etymology

[ shEp ] (noun.) before 12th century. Old English scēap, from Proto-Germanic *skæpom (compare West Frisian skiep, Dutch schaap, German Schaf), from *kæppi (compare Old Norse kjappi 'he-goat', German dialect Kippe 'newborn calf'), ultimately from Sarmato-Scythian (compare Persian čapiš 'yearling goat', Ossetian cæw 'goat'); akin to Albanian c(j)ap, sqap 'he-goat', Old Church Slavonic kapŭ.