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English (chiefly Devon)
English (chiefly Devon) : nickname for someone thought to resemble a sheep (e.g. a gentle but unimaginative person), or metonymic occupational name for a shepherd, from Anglo-Norman French muto(u)n ‘sheep’ (Old French mouton, probably of Gaulish origin; compare Breton maout ‘sheep’).
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English : variant of Mutton.
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n.
A piece of meat, especially of veal or mutton, cut for broiling.
n.
A loose woman; a prostitute.
n.
The flesh of a sheep.
n.
A dish made of pieces of meat, stewed, and highly seasoned; as, a ragout of mutton.
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A piece of meat containing a part of the backbone of an animal with the ribs on each side; as, a saddle of mutton, of venison, etc.
superl.
Nearly raw; partially cooked; not thoroughly cooked; underdone; as, rare beef or mutton.
n.
A small piece of mutton or other meat roasted on a skewer; -- so called in Turkey and Persia.
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In the Orkney and Shetland Islands, beef and mutton hung and dried, but not salted.
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A New Zealand food fish of the genus Genypterus. The name is also locally applied to other fishes, as the cultus cod, the mutton fish, and the cobia.
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A leg of mutton roasted, stuffed with white herrings and sweet herbs.
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Designating a club in London, to which Addison and Steele belonged; -- so called from Christopher Cat, a pastry cook, who served the club with mutton pies.
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A sheep.
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The fat and fatty tissues of an animal, especially the harder fat about the kidneys and loins in beef and mutton, which, when melted and freed from the membranes, forms tallow.
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A diseased sheep, or its mutton.
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Of, pertaining to, or derived from, mutton suet; -- applied by Chevreul to an oily acid which was obtained from mutton suet, and to which he attributed the peculiar taste and smell of that substance. The substance has also been called hircin.
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The upper joint of the fore leg and adjacent parts of an animal, dressed for market; as, a shoulder of mutton.
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The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.
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One of the constituents of animal fats and also of some vegetable fats, as the butter of cacao. It is especially characterized by its solidity, so that when present in considerable quantity it materially increases the hardness, or raises the melting point, of the fat, as in mutton tallow. Chemically, it is a compound of glyceryl with three molecules of stearic acid, and hence is technically called tristearin, or glyceryl tristearate.
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Like mutton; having a flavor of mutton.
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An Oriental dish consisting of rice boiled with mutton, fat, or butter.