| sequacious | following with smooth regularity; (arch.) following another person, esp. unreasoningly. | |
| a^me damne'e | (French) a person who is the willing tool of another. [lit., damned soul] | |
| bellwether | the sheep at the head of a flock, usually wearing a bell. | |
| wether | a castrated sheep. | |
| lanate | woolly. | |
| mortling | wool from a dead sheep. | |
| gare | low-grade wool from sheeps' legs. | |
| abb | low-grade wool from the edge of the fleece. | |
| roo | (Brit.) to pluck wool from a sheep by hand. | |
| dinmont | (Scot.) a castrated male sheep, from one to two years of age, that has been shorn once. | |
| teg | a two-year-old sheep not yet shorn; the wool from such a sheep. | |
| moit | a contaminant particle in wool (a burr, etc.); to eliminate moits from (wool). | |
| tum | to tease wool in preparation for carding. | |
| suint | the natural grease of sheepswool. | |
| fellmonger | a vendor of hides, esp. sheepskins. | |
| circling disease | a bacterial disease affecting the nervous system of cattle and sheep, often causing the victim to walk in circles. | |
| needfire | a fire, believed to have supernatural powers (esp. against epidemics among farm animals), started by rubbing two pieces of wood together; (Scot.) a signal fire; fungal luminescence of rotting wood. |