any of a breed of medium-sized sheep, originally from Dorset: formerly, both male and female had horns (hence the former name ), but today the polled variety prevails
county in SW England, on the English Channel: 1,024 sq mi (2,652 sq km); pop. 645,000
An early Native American culture flourishing in small coastal settlements in northern Greenland and the eastern Canadian Arctic south to Newfoundland from about 800 B.C. to A.D. 1000.
(dôrˈsĭt)
A region of southwest England on the English Channel. Part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, it was used as the setting for many of Thomas Hardy's novels.