2. To blame, reproach, or revile; to degrade, disgrace, or put to shame. [Archaic] R. Browning.
The famous name of knighthood foully shend.
Spenser.
She passed the rest as Cynthia doth shend
The lesser stars.
Spenser. Shendful
(Shend"ful) a. Destructive; ruinous; disgraceful. [Obs.] — Shend"ful*ly, adv. [Obs.] Fabyan.
Shendship
(Shend"ship), n. Harm; ruin; also, reproach; disgrace. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Shent
(Shent) obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Shend, for shendeth. Chaucer.
Shent
(Shent), v. t. To shend. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Sheol
(She"ol) n. [Heb. sheol.] The place of departed spirits; Hades; also, the grave.
For thou wilt not leave my soul to sheol.
Ps. xvi. 10. (Rev. Ver.) Shepen
(Shep"en) n. A stable; a shippen. [Obs.]
The shepne brenning with the blacke smoke.
Chaucer. Shepherd
(Shep"herd) n. [OE. schepherde, schephirde, AS. sceáphyrde; sceáp sheep + hyrde, hirde,
heorde, a herd, a guardian. See Sheep, and Herd.]
1. A man employed in tending, feeding, and guarding sheep, esp. a flock grazing at large.
2. The pastor of a church; one with the religious guidance of others.
Shepherd bird (Zoöl.), the crested screamer. See Screamer. — Shepherd dog (Zoöl.), a breed of
dogs used largely for the herding and care of sheep. There are several kinds, as the collie, or Scotch
shepherd dog, and the English shepherd dog. Called also shepherd's dog. — Shepherd dog, a name
of Pan. Keats. — Shepherd kings, the chiefs of a nomadic people who invaded Egypt from the East
in the traditional period, and conquered it, at least in part. They were expelled after about five hundred
years, and attempts have been made to connect their expulsion with narrative in the book of Exodus.
— Shepherd's club (Bot.), the common mullein. See Mullein. — Shepherd's crook, a long staff
having the end curved so as to form a large hook, — used by shepherds. — Shepherd's needle (Bot.),
the lady's comb. — Shepherd's plaid, a kind of woolen cloth of a checkered black and white pattern.
— Shephered spider (Zoöl.), a daddy longlegs, or harvestman. — Shepherd's pouch, or Shepherd's
purse (Bot.), an annual cruciferous plant (Capsella Bursapastoris) bearing small white flowers and
pouchlike pods. See Illust. of Silicle. — Shepherd's rod, or Shepherd's staff (Bot.), the small
teasel.
Shepherd
(Shep"herd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shepherded; p. pr. & vb. n. Shepherding.] To tend as a
shepherd; to guard, herd, lead, or drive, as a shepherd. [Poetic]
White, fleecy clouds . . .
Shepherded by the slow, unwilling wind.
Shelley. Shepherdess
(Shep"herd*ess), n. A woman who tends sheep; hence, a rural lass.
She put herself into the garb of a shepherdess.
Sir P. Sidney. Shepherdia
(Shep*her"di*a) n.; pl. Shepherdias [NL. So called from John Shepherd, an English botanist.]
(Bot.) A genus of shrubs having silvery scurfy leaves, and belonging to the same family as Elæagnus; also,
any plant of this genus. See Buffalo berry, under Buffalo.
