Word Meanings - SHEPHERDLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A little shepherd.

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• 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.
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• LITTLE-EASE
  An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
• 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.
• LITTLE
  place being supplied by less, or, rarely, lesser. See Lesser. For the superlative least is used, the regular form, littlest, occurring very rarely, except in some of the English provinces, and occasionally in colloquial language. " Where love is
• DO-LITTLE
  One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
• BELITTLE
  To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way. T. Jefferson.