HERD

Herd

A herd refers to a social grouping of certain animals of the same species, either wild or domestic, and also to the form of collective animal behavior associated with this or as a verb, to herd, to its control by another species such as humans or dogs.

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herd

Noun

  1. A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper.
  2. Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company.
  3. A crowd, a mass of people; now usually pejorative: a rabble.
    But far more numerous was the herd of such / Who think too little and who talk too much. Dryden.
    You can never interest the common herd in the abstract question. Coleridge.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals; a herdsman.

Verb

  1. To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.
    Sheep herd on many hills.
  2. 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. Addison.

Verb (etymology 2)

  1. To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
  2. To form or put into a herd.
    I heard the herd of cattle being herded home from a long way away.


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