sheephead (shephed)

Same as sheepshead, a fish. In fishes which live near the bottom and among the rocks, such as the sea-ba , red snapper, sheephead , and perch, the scales are usually thick. Science , XV. 211. sheep-headed (shēp'hed"ed), a. Dull; simpleminded; silly; stupid. adored, honoured, and worshipped by those simple sheepe And though it be a divell, yet is it most idolatrously headed fooles whom it hath undone and beggered. John Taylor , Works (1630). ( Nares .)