Monday 21 July 2008

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Welcome, dealing with architecture, knitting, flocks and yes loving sheep's.Therefore a word from the dictionary:

sheep |ʃiːp|
noun ( pl. same)
1 a domesticated ruminant mammal with a thick woolly coat and (typically only in the male) curving horns. It is kept in flocks for its wool or meat, and is proverbial for its tendency to follow others in the flock.
sheep 1
• Ovis aries, family Bovidae, descended from the wild mouflon.
• a wild mammal related to this, such as the argali, bighorn, and urial.
2 a person who is too easily influenced or led : the party members had become sheep, and she refused to be taken in.
3 a person regarded as a protected follower of God. [ORIGIN: with biblical allusion to Luke 15:6.]
• informal a member of a minister's congregation.
PHRASES
count sheep count imaginary sheep jumping over a fence one by one in an attempt to put oneself to sleep.
make sheep's eyes at someone look at someone in a foolishly amorous way.
DERIVATIVES
sheeplike adjective
ORIGIN Old English scēp, scǣp, scēap; related to Dutch schaap and German Schaf
(OXFORD AMERICAN DICTONARIES;Version 1.0.2 (1.0.2);Copyright © 2005 Apple Computer, Inc.,All Rights Reserved.)

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