sheep

noun (plural same)

• 1a domesticated ruminant animal 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.

  • Ovis aries, family Bovidae, descended from the wild mouflon
• a wild mammal related to this, such as the argali, bighorn, and urial.

• 2a person who is too easily influenced or led:the party members had become sheep, and she refused to be taken in

• 3a person regarded as a protected follower of God.

  [with biblical allusion to Luke 15:6]
• informal a member of a minister’s congregation.