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shepherd(1) (iou) and halogenation (medicine)


shepherd(1) (iou)



shepherd noun. OE.
[from SHEEP noun + HERD noun2.]
a. A person employed to guard, tend, and herd sheep, esp. at pasture; a member of a pastoral people herding and usually owning sheep etc. OE.
b. In pastoral literature etc., an idealized or romanticized shepherd; a rustic lover. Formerly also, a writer of pastoral poetry, a fellow-poet in the pastoral tradition. poet. L16.
Milton Nymphs and Shepherds Dance no more.
c. the Shepherds [= French les Pastoureaux], those who took part in the French peasant uprisings of 1251 ff. and 1320. M18.
fig. A person, esp. a member of the clergy, who watches over, guides, or cares for a group of people; a spiritual guardian, a pastor. Also, (in biblical use) God in relation to Israel or the Church; Jesus Christ (esp. with ref. to John 10:12). ME.
the Good Shepherd Jesus Christ.
Carlyle The shepherd of the people has..been put to bed in..Versailles. F. E. Gretton Then the shepherd read,..explaining a portion of Scripture.
More fully shepherd-spider. A harvestman (arachnid). rare. E17-M19.
A shepherd king of Ancient Egypt. E19.
Hist. A person who takes token occupation of a gold-mining claim to retain legal rights over it; a person employed to do this. Austral. M19.
= German shepherd (dog) s.v. German noun1 & adjective1. M20.
Comb.: shepherd dog a dog used to control and guard sheep; a sheepdog; (German shepherd dog: see German noun1 & adjective1); shepherd moon = shepherd satellite below; shepherd plaid = shepherd's plaid below; shepherd satellite Astronomy a small moon which orbits close to a planetary ring (esp. of Saturn), and whose gravitational field confines the ring within a narrow band; shepherd's calendar a calendar containing weather lore etc. for shepherds (app. proverbially regarded as an unreliable source of information); shepherd's check = shepherd's plaid below; shepherd's club the great mullein, Verbascum thapsus; shepherd's cress a dwarf cruciferous plant of sandy heaths, Teesdalia nudicaulis; shepherd's crook (having the shape of) a staff with a large hook at one end used by shepherds; shepherd's dog = shepherd dog above; shepherd's hour [translating French l'heure du berger] the lover's opportunity; shepherd's needle a formerly common umbelliferous cornfield weed, Scandix pecten-veneris, whose fruit ends in a long needle-like beak; shepherd-spider = sense 3 above; shepherd's pie a baked dish consisting mainly of minced meat covered with a layer of mashed potato; shepherd's pipe Music a small oboe or musette; shepherd's plaid (of) a small black and white check pattern; (made of) woollen cloth with this pattern; shepherd's purse (a) a common cruciferous weed, Capsella bursa-pastoris, with small white flowers and pouch-shaped siliculae; (b) dial. a fossil sea urchin found in chalk; shepherd's staff the small teasel, Dipsacus pilosus; shepherd's weather-glass the scarlet pimpernel, Anagallis arvensis.
shepherdish adjective pertaining to or like a shepherd or shepherds; pastoral: L16-E19.
shepherdless adjective without a shepherd or shepherds; unprotected; without a guide: M17.
shepherdry noun (rare) (a) the practice or occupation of a shepherd; (b) the affairs of the Order of Ancient Shepherds, a friendly society: L16.
shepherdship noun (rare) the post or position of a shepherd M16.
shepherdy noun (rare) the profession, practice, or occupation of a shepherd; shepherdry: E17-E18.

halogenation (medicine)


halogenation
Incorporation of one or more halogen atoms into a molecule.