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sses (Festuca) containing several species of importance in agriculture. Festuca ovina is sheep's fescue; F. elatior is meadow fescue.

Second best wool from Merino sheep. Gardner.

The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time. Who shore me Like a tame wether, all my precious fleece. Milton.

Furnished with a fleece; as, a sheep is well fleeced. Spenser.

A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl. Milton. The heathen . . . came to Nicanor by flocks. 2 Macc. xiv. 14.

That which is fed out to cattle horses, and sheep, as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.

An inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen. Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold. Milton.

The keepig of sheep in inclosures on arable land, etc. Folding boat, a portable boat made by stretching canvas, etc., over jointed framework, used in campaigning, and by tourists, etc. Ham. Nav. Encyc. Folding chairFolding door, one of two or more doors filling a single and hung upon hinges.

A disease affecting the feet of sheep.

Coarse wool on the legs of sheep. Blount.

A disease of sheep, characterized by vertigo; the staggers. It is caused by the presence of the CC.

ation of the glands beneath and within the lower jaw. It may transmitted to dogs, goats, sheep, and to human beings.

The fluke of sheep. See Fluke.

fsa. Orchard grass, pasture and hay. Dactylis glomerata. Porcupine grass, troublesome to sheep. Northwest. Stipa spartea. Quaking grass, ornamental. Briza media and maxima. Quitch, or Quick, grass, etc., a weed. Agropyrum repens. Ray grass. Same as Rye grass (below). Redtop, pasture and hay. Agrostis vulgaris. Red-topp…

To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for. A field or two to graze his cows. Swift.

One of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a sheep, used for various purposes. See Catgut.

A Scotch pudding made of the heart, liver, lights, etc., of a sheep or lamb, minced with suet, onions, oatmeal, etc., highly seasoned, and boiled in the stomach of the same animal; minced head and pluck. [Written also haggiss, haggess, and haggies.]

e of different breeds or races; having only one parent of good stock; as, a half-blooded sheep.

To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company; as, sheep herd on many hills.

A young sheep that has not been shorn. [Eng.]