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A very contagious and fatal disease of sheep, horses, and cattle. See Maligmant pustule.

A valuable breed of mountain sheep in Scotland, which takes its name from the Cheviot hills.

To utter rapidly and inconsiderately. Feltham. To clack wool, to cut off the sheep's mark, in order to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty. [Eng.]

coat of the swallowtail pattern. [Slang] -- Claw sickness, foot rot, a disease affecting sheep.

The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.

A game played with sheep's bones instead of dice [Obs.]

larval stage of a tapeworm (Tænia coenurus) which forms bladderlike sacs in the brain of sheep, causing the fatal disease known as water brain, vertigo, staggers or gid.

mpt; an effort. What conatus could give prickles to the porcupine or hedgehog, or to the sheep its fleece Paley.

A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A pen, coop, or like shelter for small domestic animals, as for sheep or pigeons; a cote.

A shed, shelter, or inclosure for small domestic animals, as for sheep or doves. Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, In hurdled cotes. Milton.

An open country abounding in sheepcotes, as in the Cotswold hills, in Gloucestershire, England. Cotswold sheep, a long-wooled breed of sheep, formerly common in the counties of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester, Eng.; -- so called from the Cotswold Hills. The breed is now chiefly amalgamated with others.…

cramp, divers nights, gripeth him in his legs. Sir T. More. Cramp bone, the patella of a sheep; -- formerly used as a charm for the cramp. Halliwell. "He could turn cramp bones into chess men." Dickens. -- Cramp ring, a ring formerly supposed to have virtue in averting or curing cramp, as having been consecrated by on…

Having a crimped appearance; frizzly; as, the crimpy wool of the Saxony sheep.

Especially: (a) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep. (b) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral stafu. He left his crook, he left his flocks. Prior.

A loose end; a dangling shred. Daglocks, clotted locks hanging in dags or jags at a sheep's tail. Wedgwood.

Daggle-tailed; having the tail clogged with daglocks. "Dag- tailed sheep." Bp. Hall.

A dirty or clotted lock of wool on a sheep; a taglock.

tion of want; needy; without possessions or resources; very poor. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented. Heb. xi. 37.

One of the small bones in the knee joints of sheep uniting the bones above and below the joints.