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A sheep. [Obs.] Chapman. Not so much ground as will feed a mutton. Sir H. Sidney. Muttons, beeves, and porkers are good old words for the living quadrupeds. Hallam.

Like mutton; having a flavor of mutton.

Having the general shape or outline of a leg of mutton; as, a leg-of-mutton, or shoulder-of-mutton, sail.

A diseased sheep, or its mutton.

A small piece of mutton or other meat roasted on a skewer; -- so called in Turkey and Persia.

A piece chopped off; a slice or small piece, especially of meat; as, a mutton chop.

The neck piece or scrag of mutton. Johnson.

A piece of meat, especially of veal or mutton, cut for broiling.

guffer, bard, and Maroona eel. Also, an American species (Z. anguillaris), -- called also mutton fish, and, erroneously, congo eel, ling, and lamper eel. Both are edible, but of little value.

nd of man's flesh, taken from a man, Is not so estimable, profitable neither, As flesh of muttons, beefs, or goats. Shak.

shire, England, having white legs and face and black nostrils. They are esp. valuable for mutton.

lly larger than a bottle, and of leather or stoneware rather than of glass. A trencher of mutton chops, and a flagon of ale. Macaulay.

A mouthful that makes one retch; a choking bit; as, a gag of mutton fat. Lamb.

A leg of mutton.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, mutton suet; -- applied by Chevreul to an oily acid which was obtained from mutton suet, and to which he attributed the peculiar taste and smell of that substance. The substance has also been called hircin. Watts.

A fancy dish; a titbit; a delicacy. Some pigeons, . . . a joint of mutton, and any pretty little tiny kickshaws. Shak. Cressy was lost by kickshaws and soup-maigre. Fenton.

eele belonged; -- so called from Christopher Cat, a pastry cook, who served the club with mutton pies.

Decorated with the fabric lace. A shirt with laced ruffles. Fielding. Laced mutton, a prostitute. [Old slang] -- Laced stocking, a strong stocking which can be tightly laced; -- used in cases of weak legs, varicose veins, etc. Dunglison.

enus Genypterus. The name is also locally applied to other fishes, as the cultus cod, the mutton fish, and the cobia.

An Oriental dish consisting of rice boiled with mutton, fat, or butter. [Written also pilau.]