sheep

n. variety of cud-chewing animal related to the goat (raised for wool, meat or skin); skin of a sheep; docile and submissive person

The domestic sheep (Ovis aries), the most common species of the sheep genus (Ovis), is a woolly ruminant quadruped. It is probably descended from the wild mouflon of South Asia and Southwest Asia. Female sheep are referred to as ewes, intact males as rams, castrated males as wethers, yearlings as hoggets, and younger sheep as lambs. In sheep husbandry, a group of sheep is called a herd, flock or mob. Sheep husbandry has a vast lexicon of terms, which varies frequently with region.
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Noun
1. woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat
(hypernym) bovid
(hyponym) ewe
(member-holonym) Ovis, genus Ovis
(part-meronym) trotter
2. a timid defenseless simpleton who is readily preyed upon
(hypernym) simpleton, simple
3. a docile and vulnerable person who would rather follow than make an independent decision; "his students followed him like sheep"
(hypernym) follower

(n. sing. & pl.)
Fig.: The people of God, as being under the government and protection of Christ, the great Shepherd.
  

(n. sing. & pl.)
Any one of several species of ruminants of the genus Ovis, native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia.
  

(n. sing. & pl.)
A weak, bashful, silly fellow.
  

<mathematics, tool> A package for symbolic mathematics, especially tensor analysis and General Relativity, developed by Inge Frick in Stockholm in the late 1970s to early 1980s. SHEEP was implemented in DEC-10 assembly language, then in several LISPs. The current version runs on Sun-3 and is based on Portable Standard LISP.
["Sheep, a Computer Algebra System for General Relativity", J.E.F. Skea et al in Proc First Brazilian School on Comp Alg, W. Roque et al eds, Oxford U Press 1993, v2].
http://www.riaca.win.tue.nl/archive/can/SystemsOverview/Special/Tensoranalysis/SHEEP/index.html.
(2002-12-28)