as a conventional (poetic) epithet of sheep.Whatever Mr Scalia is, he isn't particularly ovine.
And Kelly Leffler, a writer in Hollywood, will dress up like a sheep, march to Los Angeles's most prestigious mall, the Beverly Centre, and bleat.Ms Leffler's ovine activism is part of Buy Nothing Day (BND).
In 1996 Ian Wilmut, of the Roslyn Institute, in Edinburgh, removed the nucleus of an ovine egg cell and replaced it with that of an adult cell.
Her literary perambulation encompasses ovine love life (the block of wax crayon attached to rams in order to denote which ewes have been tupped is called a "ruddle"), bracken ("an ancient enemy… colonises land at hideous speed") and Thomas Hardy's self-designed house in Dorchester ("staggeringly ugly").
Dot the sheep An inspiration to the forty-strong cast of ovine actors, Dot is the leader of the flock and very comfortable in front of the camera.
Not for me that ovine tour led by the ewe at the front with her half-unfurled umbrella held aloft for the flock to follow.
There is a marked geographic difference in the distribution of farms; while bovine, swine, and aviculturist farms are mainly found in the north, ovine farms are more widespread in the south.
But the director, Danya Taymor (niece of Julie), altogether unsheepish, embraces the story's turn toward ovine gore.
If Gardner has his way, cows, sheep, goats, and pigs will cease to be "bovine, ovine, caprine, and porcine animals".
