Sheep-biter, evidently == a morose, surly and malicious fellow: wouldst thou not be glad to have the niggardly rascally s. (i. e. Malvolio) “come by some notable shame?” Tw. II, 5, 6 (Dyce: "a cant term for a thief").
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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