In full mug sheep. A breed of sheep having the face completely covered with wool; a sheep of this breed. So mug ewe, mug lamb, etc.

Usually with capital initial. Any of various breeds of sheep originally raised for both meat and wool on the Downs of southern England (see sense…

(a) An old breed of horned sheep peculiar to Shropshire; (b) a modern breed of black-faced hornless sheep obtained by crossing with the Southdown…

a sheep of a breed characteristic of Norfolk; spec. the Norfolk Horn (see Norfolk Horn n. at sense 13); a sheep of this breed. Now historical.

attributive. Designating a small, docile, hornless breed of sheep, bred for both meat and wool; designating a sheep of this breed.

A breed of hornless sheep native to the South Downs of Sussex and Hampshire in southern England, reared both for its meat and for its short fine…

Any of several breeds of sheep which originated, or supposedly originated, in Iran; (now chiefly, more fully blackhead Persian) a breed developed…

Used attributively or as adjective, and hence elliptically as noun, to designate a valuable long-woolled variety of sheep and a long-horned variety…

A sheep of the Southdown breed.

A Ryeland sheep.

A sheep of this breed; the breed itself. Also: the wool or meat of this breed.

a breed of small sheep originating in the Isle of Man, characterized by a greyish-brown fleece and the presence of one, two, or three pairs of horns…

(In full Herdwick sheep): A hardy breed of mountain sheep in Cumberland and Westmorland (now Cumbria).

A Wallachian sheep.

A Norfolk sheep.

Used attributively and absol. to designate a breed of long-wool sheep, originally developed in the Tees valley and recently revived; also, a sheep of…

an English breed of sheep with fine, curly wool and a dark, wool-free face; a sheep of this breed; cf. Leicester, n. a.

a hardy breed of large long-woolled sheep originating in the uplands of northern England; a sheep of this breed; frequently attributive.

a variety of sheep originating from the cross-breeding of Cheviot and Leicester sheep.

U.S. regional. = Mexican sheep n. at compounds 1b. Obsolete.

A cloth made from Cheviot wool.

a fat-tailed sheep.

In singular form. In Argentina: the criollo breed of sheep, as typical of the pampas; a sheep of this breed. rare.

= sense 3.

Applied to kinds of domesticated sheep and pig of prehistoric times that were first found in turbaries in Swiss lake-dwellings. Freq. in turbary…

A breed of sheep with coarse wiry fur; a sheep of this breed.

The East Friesian breed of sheep; a sheep of this breed.

Used absol. or attributively to designate a hardy, hornless sheep belonging to a breed originally developed on Texel; (also) the breed itself.

a breed of sheep native to Norfolk, characterized by a wiry build, black face and legs, and the presence of horns in both rams and ewes; a sheep of…

The name of a highly fertile breed of sheep obtained by crossing the Border Leicester, Clun, Friesland, and Dorset Horn; a sheep of this breed.