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ic animals or beasts collectively, used or raised on a farm; as, a stock of cattle or of sheep, etc.; -- called also live stock.

Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay. Where live nibbling sheep, And flat meads thatched with stover them to keep. Shak. Thresh barley as yet but as need shall require, Fresh threshed for stover thy cattle desire. Tusser.

to go astray. Now, until the break of day, Through this house each fairy stray. Shak. A sheep doth very often stray. Shak.

A disease in sheep and cattle, marked by great nervousness, or by dullness and stupor.

A peculiar substance obtained from the wool of sheep, consisting largely of potash mixed with fatty and earthy matters. It is used as a source of potash and also for the manufacture of gas.

A tramp or vagabond in the Australian bush; -- so called from his coming to sheep stations at sunset of ask for supper and a bed, when it is too late to work; -- called also traveler and swagman (but not all swagmen are sundowners).

Sward; short grass. Grassy swarth, close cropped by nibbling sheep. Cowper.

A sheep of the first year. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A device for removing taglocks from sheep. Knight.

Adhesion of the tail of a sheep to the wool from excoriation produced by contact with the feces; -- called also tagbelt. [Obs.]

The suet or fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds, separated from membranous and fibrous matter by melting.

To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, and the like, by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them.

An old English breed of sheep allied to the Leicester.

A sheep in its second year; also, a doe in its second year. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

The lapwing; -- called also teewheep. [Prov. Eng.]

A ewe lamb of the first year; also, a sheep three years old. [Written also thave.] [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A disease in sheep, indicated by shaking, trembling, or convulsive motions.

cts having a flattened and usually wingless body, as the bird ticks (see under Bird) and sheep tick (see under Sheep). Tick bean, a small bean used for feeding horses and other animals. -- Tick trefoil (Bot.), a name given to many plants of the leguminous genus Desmodium, which have trifoliate leaves, and joined pods…

A kind of ocher which is used in some parts of England in marking sheep. [Prov. Eng.]

To rend in pieces. [Obs.] The wolf hath many a sheep and lamb to-rent. Chaucer.