Dor·set

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• 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.
• noun A domestic sheep of a breed having large horns and medium-length, fine-textured wool.
• noun An early Native American culture flourishing in small coastal settlements in northern Greenland and the eastern Canadian Arctic south to Newfoundland from about 800 BC to AD 1000.