sheep biting (shepbiting)

Given to biting, snapping at, or worrying sheep or simple or defensele persons; hence, given to robbing or backbiting those under one's care. Why, you bald-pated, lying rascal, you must be hooded, must you? Show your knave's visage, with a pox to you! Show your sheep - biting face, and be hanged an hour! IMG:content-0829.png:[blocks in formation] 1, adult fly, with wings closed; 2, same, with wings expanded: 3 empty puparium; 4, full-grown larva, dorsal view: a , mouth-hooks; 5. full grown larva, ventral view: b, anal appendages; 6, young larva: c, anal stigmata. feeding upon the mucous membrane for nine months, when they crawl out, drop to the ground, and transform to pupæ, i uing as flies in six weeks or more. They are a source of great damage to sheep, and are frequently the indirect or even direct cause of death. The sheep-bot is common to Europe and America, and has been carried in exported sheep to many other parts of the world. sheep-cote (shep'kōt), n. [ Where in the purlieus of this forest stands A sheep - cote fenced about with olive trees? Shak., As you Like it, iv. 3. 78. sheep-dip (shēp'dip), n, Same as sheep - wash . sheep-dog (shep'dog), n . 1. A dog trained to watch and tend sheep; especially, a collie.2. A chaperon. [Slang.] "A "Some men are coming who will only bore you. I would not ask them, but you know it's for your good, and now I have a sheep - dog , I need not be afraid to be alone." sheep- dog -a companion! Becky Sharp with a companion! Isn't it good fun?" thought Mrs. Crawley to herself. Thackeray , Vanity Fair, xxxvii. sheep-faced (shēp'fast), a. Sheepish; bashful. sheep-farmer (shēp'färmer), n. A farmer whose occupation is the raising of sheep. sheepfold (shep'föld), n. [Early mod. E. sheepe fould ; schepfalde ; sheep1 + fold2 , n .] A fold or pen for sheep.