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1. shẹ̄̆p-hẹ̄̆rdes(se n.

Additional spellings: shepherdes, shep-herdesse, shepherdesse
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(a) A female keeper of sheep; also, the wife of a shepherd; (b) as surname. …

2. hẹ̄rdesse n.

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A shepherdess. …

3. hẹ̄rden v.(2)

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(a) To herd (livestock); also, watch over (sb.), keep, protect; (b) to guard (wealth); (c) to bring together (wickedness, treachery), assemble; ?produce. …

4. hẹ̄rden v.(1)

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(a) Of animals: to form a flock or herd; herden to, join with, come together with; (b) ?to come (to a place). …

5. fāldrōve n.

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A manorial service in connection with the housing or the care of cattle. …

6. hurd-reue n.

Additional spellings: hurdreue
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?Herdsman's rue; some plant of the genus centaurium. …

7. hẹ̄rden adj. & n.

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(a) Made of the refuse of flax, made of hards; herden cloth, a coarse cloth made of hards; herden shete, a sheet of such cloth; (b) as noun: = herden cloth; (c) ?in surname. …

8. nǒut-hẹ̄rd(e n.

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(a) A cowherd; (b) as surname. …

9. wesen v.(1)

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To tend (livestock, sheep), pasture. …

10. hẹ̄̆rsumnesse n.

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Obedience, service, ecclesiastical or feudal homage; don hersumnesse, to do homage, profess obedience. …

11. hẹ̄rdlēs adj.

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Without a shepherd. …

12. hẹ̄rd(e n.(1)

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(a) A flock or herd of domesticated animals; got herd, q.v.; (b) a herd of wild animals; esp. a herd of deer; also, a flock of birds, swarm of gnats; (c) fig. spiritual flock, group of people under……

13. hẹ̄rde-man n.

Additional spellings: herdeman
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(a) A shepherd; also fig.; (b) a tender of goats, cattle, horses, or other livestock; a herdsman; (c) herde-mannes purs, shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris); herdemannes yerd, shepherd's rod……

14. ox(e-herd(e n.

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(a) A keeper of oxen; a herdsman; (b) as surname. …

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