Word Meanings - MAYORAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The conductir of a mule team; also, a head shepherd.

Related words: (words related to MAYORAL)

• SHEPHERDIA
  A genus of shrubs having silvery scurfy leaves, and belonging to the same family as Elæagnus; also, any plant of this genus. See Buffalo berry, under Buffalo.
• SHEPHERDLY
  Resembling, or becoming to, a shepherd; pastoral; rustic. Jer. Taylor.
• SHEPHERDISM
  Pastoral life or occupation.
• SHEPHERDLING
  A little shepherd.
• SHEPHERD
  sceáp sheep + hyrde, hirde, heorde, a herd, a guardian. See Sheep, 1. A man employed in tending, feeding, and guarding sheep, esp. a flock grazing at large. 2. The pastor of a church; one with the religious guidance of others. Shepherd bird ,
• SHEPHERDISH
  Resembling a shepherd; suiting a shepherd; pastoral. Sir T. Sidney.
• SHEPHERDESS
  A woman who tends sheep; hence, a rural lass. She put herself into the garb of a shepherdess. Sir P. Sidney.