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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.

 

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