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A sheep's fleece.

y of game, as the woodcock, and the like; -- applied also, sometimes, to the entrails of sheep. The woodcock is a favorite with epicures, and served with its trail in, is a delicious dish. Baird.

foot; also, the sound produced by trampling. Milton. The huddling trample of a drove of sheep. Lowell.

The dung of sheep or hares. Holland.

A herd or flock, as of sheep, goats, etc. [Prov. Eng. & Scott.]

The foot of an animal, especially that of a sheep; also, humorously, the human foot.

A kind of basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep. [Eng.]

. Tillotson. When the passage is open, land will be turned most to cattle; when shut, to sheep. Sir W. Temple.

A disease with which sheep are sometimes affected; gid; sturdy. See Gid.

A lock of wool hanging under the belly of a sheep.

To release from a fold or pen; as, to unfold sheep.

A disease in sheep, in which they pine away. [Written also vinquish.]

ing to the art of healing or treating the diseases of domestic animals, as oxen, horses, sheep, etc.; as, a veterinary writer or school.

d; hence, a place or region in which animals may graze; place of wandering; range; as, a sheep walk. A woody mountain . . . with goodliest trees Planted, with walks and bowers. Milton. He had walk for a hundred sheep. Latimer. Amid the sound of steps that beat The murmuring walks like rain. Bryant.

o range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins. Heb. xi. 37. He wandereth abroad for bread. Job xv. 23.

To cast prematurely, as young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc. [Prov. Eng.]

water, etc., or as with water; as, to wash the hands or body; to wash garments; to wash sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to wash the bark of trees. When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, . . . he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just…

A disease of sheep; gid.

A kind of coarse grass growing in wet grounds, and supposed to be injurious to sheep. [Prov. Eng.]

l. -- Welsh mutton, a choice and delicate kind of mutton obtained from a breed of small sheep in Wales. -- Welsh onion (Bot.), a kind of onion (Allium fistulosum) having hollow inflated stalks and leaves, but scarcely any bulb, a native of Siberia. It is said to have been introduced from Germany, and is supposed to h…