†(a) Of, pertaining to, or concerned with sheep; ovine. Obsolete. (b) Resembling sheep or their characteristics. Now rare.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling sheep.

Passing into adj. (in early use also sheep's; cf. sheep's eyes, n.) Sheep-like, sheepish.

Resembling a sheep or that of a sheep; esp. in an unfavourable sense.

Of the spigelian lobe of the liver in a ruminant: broad-based (like that of a sheep). Cf. rusiform, adj.

(of a sphinx or artistic representation of a person) = ram-headed, adj. a.