Definition of Sheep

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Definition of Sheep

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.

A weak, bashful, silly fellow.

Fig.: The people of God, as being under the government and protection of Christ, the great Shepherd.

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Sheep Quotations

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
Albert Einstein

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Winston Churchill

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
Henry David Thoreau

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
George S. Patton

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
Alexander the Great

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.
Bill Maher

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.
Dave Barry

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.
Edward Abbey

Sheep Translations

sheep in Afrikaans is skaap
sheep in Dutch is schaap
sheep in French is gobeur
sheep in German is Schafe, Schaf
sheep in Italian is pecora
sheep in Latin is ovis ovis
sheep in Portuguese is ovelha, carneiros
sheep in Spanish is oveja, borrego

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