Word Meanings - GOURDWORM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The fluke of sheep. See Fluke.

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• SHEEP'S-FOOT
  A printer's tool consisting of a metal bar formed into a hammer head at one end and a claw at the other, -- used as a lever and hammer.
• SHEEP-HEADED
  Silly; simple-minded; stupid. Taylor
• SHEEPBITER
  One who practices petty thefts. Shak. There are political sheepbiters as well as pastoral; betrayers of public trusts as well as of private. L'Estrange.
• SHEEPSKIN
  1. The skin of a sheep; or, leather prepared from it. 2. A diploma; -- so called because usually written or printed on parchment prepared from the skin of the sheep.
• SHEEPSHEAD
  A large and valuable sparoid food fish (Archosargus, or Diplodus, probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds. Note: The name is also locally, in a loose way, applied to various other
• SHEEP'S-EYE
  A modest, diffident look; a loving glance; -- commonly in the plural. I saw her just now give him the languishing eye, as they call it; . . . of old called the sheep's-eye. Wycherley.
• SHEEP-FACED
  Over-bashful; sheepish.
• FLUKE
  One of the lobes of a whale's tail, so called from the resemblance to the fluke of an anchor. 3. An instrument for cleaning out a hole drilled in stone for blasting. 4. An accidental and favorable stroke at billiards (called a scratch in the United
• SHEEPSPLIT
  A split of a sheepskin; one of the thin sections made by splitting a sheepskin with a cutting knife or machine.
• SHEEPHOOK
  A hook fastened to pole, by which shepherds lay hold on the legs or necks of their sheep; a shepherd's crook. Dryden.
• SHEEPBITE
  To bite or nibble like a sheep; hence, to practice petty thefts. Shak.
• SHEEPMASTER
  A keeper or feeder of sheep; also, an owner of sheep. 2 Kings iii. 4.
• SHEEPCOT; SHEEPCOTE
  A small inclosure for sheep; a pen; a fold.
• FLUKEWORM
  See 2
• SHEEPRACK
  The starling.
• SHEEP-SHEARING
  1. Act of shearing sheep. 2. A feast at the time of sheep-shearing. Shak.
• SHEEPBACK
  A rounded knoll of rock resembling the back of a sheep. -- produced by glacial action. Called also roche moutonnée; -- usually in the plural.
• SHEEPSHANK
  A hitch by which a rope may be temporarily shortened.
• SHEEPBERRY
  The edible fruit of a small North American tree of the genus Viburnum , having white flowers in flat cymes; also, the tree itself. Called also nannyberry.
• SHEEP
  Any one of several species of ruminants of the genus Ovis, native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia. Note: The domestic sheep varies much in size, in the length and texture of its wool, the form and size of