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.
Related words: (words related to SHEPHERDESS)
- 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.