2. Like a sheep; bashful; over-modest; meanly or foolishly diffident;
timorous to excess.
Wanting change of company, he will, when he comes abroad, be a
sheepish or conceited creature.
Locke.
-- Sheep"ish*ly, adv. -- Sheep"ish*ness, n.
Sheep"mas`ter (?), n. A keeper or feeder of sheep; also, an owner of
sheep. 2 Kings iii. 4.
Sheep"rack` (?), n. (Zoöl.) The starling.
Sheep's"-eye` (?), n. A modest, diffident look; a loving glance; --
commonly in the plural.
I saw her just now give him the languishing eye, as they call it; .
. . of old called the sheep's-eye.
Wycherley.
Sheep's-foot` (?), n. A printer's tool consisting of a metal bar formed
into a hammer head at one end and a claw at the other, -- used as a
lever and hammer.
Sheep"shank` (?), n. (Naut.) A hitch by which a rope may be temporarily
shortened.
Sheeps"head` (&?;), n. [So called because of the fancied resemblance of
its head and front teeth to those of a sheep.] (Zoöl.) A large and
valuable sparoid food fish (Archosargus, or Diplodus, probatocephalus)
found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from
ten to twelve pounds.
The name is also locally, in a loose way, applied to various other
fishes, as the butterfish, the fresh-water drumfish, the parrot fish,
the porgy, and the moonfish.
Sheep"-shear`er (?), n. One who shears, or cuts off the wool from,
sheep.
Sheep"-shear`ing (?), n. 1. Act of shearing sheep.