noun.
A number of animals feeding or driven together; a drove; a flock: commonly used of the larger animals, such as cows, oxen, horses, asses (cattle), deer, camels, elephants, whales, etc., and sometimes of small cattle, as sheep, hogs, etc., and in falconry and fowling of birds, as swans, cranes, and curlews.
noun.
In a disparaging sense, a company of men or people; a rabble; a mob: as, the vulgar herd.
To go in a herd; congregate as beasts; feed or run in droves.
To associate; unite in troops or companies; become one of any faction, party, or set: used in a more or less derogatory or sinister sense.
To form into or as if into a herd.
noun.
A herdsman; a keeper of cattle; a shepherd; hence, a keeper of any domestic animals: now rare in the simple form (except in Scotland), but common in composition, as in cowherd, goatherd, gooseherd, shepherd, swineherd.
An obsolete spelling of heard, preterit and past participle of hear.
To take care of or tend, as cattle.
To act as a herd or shepherd; tend cattle or take care of a flock.
An obsolete form of haired.