Herd \Herd\, n. [OE. hirde, herde, heorde, AS. hirde, hyrde,
   heorde; akin to G. hirt, hirte, OHG. hirti, Icel. hir?ir, Sw.
   herde, Dan. hyrde, Goth. ha['i]rdeis. See 2d Herd.]
   One who herds or assembles domestic animals; a herdsman; --
   much used in composition; as, a shepherd; a goatherd, and the
   like. --Chaucer.
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	Herd \Herd\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Herded; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Herding.] [See 2d Herd.]
   1. To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together,
      or in company; as, sheep herd on many hills.
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   2. To associate; to ally one's self with, or place one's self
      among, a group or company.
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            I'll herd among his friends, and seem
            One of the number.                    --Addison.
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   3. To act as a herdsman or a shepherd. [Scot.]
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	Herd \Herd\ (h[~e]rd), a.
   Haired. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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	Herd \Herd\ (h[~e]rd), n. [OE. herd, heord, AS. heord; akin to
   OHG. herta, G. herde, Icel. hj["o]r[eth], Sw. hjord, Dan.
   hiord, Goth. ha['i]rda; cf. Skr. [,c]ardha troop, host.]
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   1. 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.
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            The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea. --Gray.
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   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.
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   2. A crowd of low people; a rabble.
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            But far more numerous was the herd of such
            Who think too little and who talk too much.
                                                  --Dryden.
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            You can never interest the common herd in the
            abstract question.                    --Coleridge.
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   Herd's grass (Bot.), one of several species of grass,
      highly esteemed for hay. See under Grass.
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	Herd \Herd\, v. t.
   To form or put into a herd.
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	herd
    n 1: a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of
         the same kind that are herded by humans
    2: a group of wild mammals of one species that remain together:
       antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra
    3: a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or
       things; "his brilliance raised him above the ruck"; "the
       children resembled a fairy herd" [syn: ruck, herd]
    v 1: cause to herd, drive, or crowd together; "We herded the
         children into a spare classroom" [syn: herd, crowd]
    2: move together, like a herd
    3: keep, move, or drive animals; "Who will be herding the cattle
       when the cowboy dies?"

	

	82 Moby Thesaurus words for "herd":
   Gyropilot, army, assemblage, assemble, automatic pilot, boatheader,
   boatsteerer, bunch, cage, cicerone, cluster, collect, collection,
   colony, congregate, corral, courier, cowherd, coxswain, crowd,
   crush, dragoman, drift, drive, drove, drover, flock, gam, gang,
   gather, gather together, goad, goatherd, group, guide, guidepost,
   guider, helmsman, herdsman, hoi polloi, hold the reins, horde,
   host, kennel, lash, litter, mass, masses, mercury, multitude,
   navigator, pack, pilot, pod, pointer, press, prick, pride,
   punch cattle, rabble, ride herd on, river pilot, round up, run,
   school, shepherd, shoal, skulk, sloth, spur, steer, steerer,
   steersman, swarm, take the helm, throng, tour director, tour guide,
   trip, troop, whip, wrangle

	

	Herd
   Gen. 13:5; Deut. 7:14. (See CATTLE.)