Word Meanings - SHEPHERDESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A woman who tends sheep; hence, a rural lass.

• Sheepback
  A rounded knoll of rock resembling the back of a sheep. -- produced by glacial action. Called also roche moutonnee; -- usually in the plural.
• Sheepshead
  A large and valuable sparoid food fish (Archosargus, / Diplodus, probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds.
• Sheepberry
  The edible fruit of a small North American tree of the genus Viburnum (V. Lentago), having white flowers in flat cymes; also, the tree itself. Called also nannyberry.
• Sheep-shearer
  One who shears, or cuts off the wool from, sheep.
• SHEEPCOTSHEEPCOTE
  A small inclosure for sheep; a pen; a fold.
• Sheepbite
  To bite or nibble like a sheep; hence, to practice petty thefts.
• Sheep-shearing
  Act of shearing sheep.
• SHEEPFACED
  Over-bashful; sheepish.
• Henceforth
  From this time forward; henceforward.
• Sheepbiter
  One who practices petty thefts.
• Sheepskin
  The skin of a sheep; or, leather prepared from it.
• SHEEPHEADED
  Silly; simple-minded; stupid. Taylor (1630)
• Henceforward
  From this time forward; henceforth.
• Sheepcot
  Alt. of Sheepcote
• Sheepsplit
  A split of a sheepskin; one of the thin sections made by splitting a sheepskin with a cutting knife or machine.
• SHEEPSEYE
  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.
• Sheepcote
  A small inclosure for sheep; a pen; a fold.

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