Word Meanings - SHEPHERDESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A woman who tends sheep; hence, a rural lass. She put herself into the garb of a shepherdess. Sir P. Sidney.

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• RURALITY
  1. The quality or state of being rural. 2. A rural place. "Leafy ruralities." Carlyle.
• SHEEP'S-FOOT
  A printer's tool consisting of a metal bar formed into a hammer head at one end and a claw at the other, -- used as a lever and hammer.
• RURALIZE
  To render rural; to give a rural appearance to.
• SHEEP-HEADED
  Silly; simple-minded; stupid. Taylor
• SHEEPBITER
  One who practices petty thefts. Shak. There are political sheepbiters as well as pastoral; betrayers of public trusts as well as of private. L'Estrange.
• SHEEPSKIN
  1. The skin of a sheep; or, leather prepared from it. 2. A diploma; -- so called because usually written or printed on parchment prepared from the skin of the sheep.
• WOMANLY
  Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne.
• SHEEPSHEAD
  A large and valuable sparoid food fish (Archosargus, or Diplodus, probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds. Note: The name is also locally, in a loose way, applied to various other
• RURAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the country, as distinguished from a city or town; living in the country; suitable for, or resembling, the country; rustic; as, rural scenes; a rural prospect. Here is a rural fellow; . . . He brings you figs. Shak. 2. Of
• SHEEP'S-EYE
  A modest, diffident look; a loving glance; -- commonly in the plural. I saw her just now give him the languishing eye, as they call it; . . . of old called the sheep's-eye. Wycherley.
• WOMANHEAD; WOMANHEDE
  Womanhood. Chaucer.
• SHEEP-FACED
  Over-bashful; sheepish.
• WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
  An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.
• SHEEPSPLIT
  A split of a sheepskin; one of the thin sections made by splitting a sheepskin with a cutting knife or machine.
• SHEEPHOOK
  A hook fastened to pole, by which shepherds lay hold on the legs or necks of their sheep; a shepherd's crook. Dryden.
• HENCE
  ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send
• SHEEPBITE
  To bite or nibble like a sheep; hence, to practice petty thefts. Shak.
• SHEEPMASTER
  A keeper or feeder of sheep; also, an owner of sheep. 2 Kings iii. 4.
• WOMANHOOD
  1. The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind. Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood. Spenser. Perhaps the smile and the tender tone Came out of her pitying womanhood. Tennyson. 2.
• SHEEPCOT; SHEEPCOTE
  A small inclosure for sheep; a pen; a fold.
• AIRWOMAN
  A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.
• EQUICRURAL
  Having equal legs or sides; isosceles. "Equicrural triangles." Sir T. Browne.
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• UNWOMAN
  To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. R. Browning.
• NOBLEWOMAN
  A female of noble rank; a peeress.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• BONDSWOMAN
  See BONDWOMAN
• BICRURAL
  Having two legs. Hooker.
• NEEDLEWOMAN
  A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.
• DAIRYWOMAN
  A woman who attends to a dairy.