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noun

Herd n.

A number of beasts assembled together; as, a herd of horses, oxen, cattle, camels, elephants, deer, or swine; a particular stock or family of cattle. "The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea." Note: Herd is distinguished from flock, as being chiefly applied to the larger animals. A number of cattle, when driven to market, is called a drove.

A crowd of low people; a rabble. "But far more numerous was the herd of such Who think too little and who talk too much." "You can never interest the common herd in the abstract question."

Herd's grass (Bot.), one of several species of grass, highly esteemed for hay. See under Grass.

Herd n. One who herds or assembles domestic animals; a herdsman; much used in composition; as, a shepherd; a goatherd, and the like.

verb

Herd v. t. To form or put into a herd.

Herd v. i. (past & past part. herded; pres. part. herding)

To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company; as, sheep herd on many hills.

To associate; to ally one's self with, or place one's self among, a group or company. "I'll herd among his friends, and seem One of the number."

To act as a herdsman or a shepherd. (Scot.)

adjective

Herd adj. Haired. (Obs.)

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"Herd" Quotes from Famous Books

... almost inclined to cry; but, Dick at the last moment, when the search was just about to be given up, raked out a perfect specimen from a hole in the rock-work beneath one of the buttresses that was nearly awash with the water—a darksome dungeon, isolated from the vulgar herd of barnacles, and common but kindred anemones with which the stuck-up sea cucumber was too proud ...

— Bob Strong's Holidays - Adrift in the Channel • John Conroy Hutcheson

... life! God's night and sky and sea were hers now, as they had been Malcolm's from childhood. And when the nets had been paid out, and sunk straight into the deep, stretched betwixt leads below and floats and buoys above, extending a screen of meshes against the rush of the watery herd; when the sails were down, and the whole vault of stars laid bare to her eyes as she lay; when the boat was still, fast to the nets, anchored as it were by hanging acres of curtain, and all was silent as a church, waiting, and she might dream or sleep or pray as she ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 • Various

... Hall, the renowned hunter of big game, says there is nothing more exhilarating than a brush with a herd—a pack—a team—a flock—a swarm (it has taken me a full quarter of an hour to recall the right word, but I have it at last)—a pride of lions. Why a number of lions are called a "pride," a number of whales a "school," and a number of foxes ...

— Amusements in Mathematics • Henry Ernest Dudeney

... extended our bravest comrades on the earth. Figure to yourself a shoal of fishes, enclosed within the net, that circle in vain the fatal labyrinth in which they are involved; or rather, conceive what I have myself been witness to—a herd of deer, surrounded on every side by a band of active and unpitying hunters, who press and gall them on every side, and exterminate them at leisure in their flight; just such was the situation of our unfortunate ...

— The History of Sandford and Merton • Thomas Day

... of hunting is simple. The herd is located, and as cautiously as possible the hunters conceal themselves behind the trees near the runway and throw their spears as the desired animal passes. No wild carabaos have been killed during ...

— The Bontoc Igorot • Albert Ernest Jenks

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