1.  shepherd(n = noun.person) - a clergyman who watches over a group of people;
is a kind of clergyman, man of the cloth, reverend

2.  shepherd(n = noun.person) sheepherder, sheepman - a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock;
is a kind of drover, herder, herdsman
has particulars: shepherdess
Derived form verb shepherd₂

1.  shepherd(v = verb.social) - watch over like a shepherd, as a teacher of her pupils;
is one way to guard, ward
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody

2.  shepherd(v = verb.social) - tend as a shepherd, as of sheep or goats;
is one way to tend
Derived form noun shepherd₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

1.  A man employed in tending, feeding, and guarding sheep, esp. a flock grazing at large. [1913 Webster]

2.  The pastor of a church; one with the religious guidance of others. [1913 Webster]

   To tend as a shepherd; to guard, herd, lead, or drive, as a shepherd. [1913 Webster]
"White, fleecy clouds . . . " [1913 Webster]
"Shepherded by the slow, unwilling wind." [1913 Webster]

shepherd, n. & v.
--n.
1 (fem. shepherdess) a person employed to tend sheep, esp. at pasture.
2 a member of the clergy etc. who cares for and guides a congregation.
--v.tr.
1 a tend (sheep etc.) as a shepherd. b guide (followers etc.).
2 marshal or drive (a crowd etc.) like sheep.

Idiom:
the Good Shepherd Christ. shepherd dog a sheepdog. shepherd's crook a staff with a hook at one end used by shepherds. shepherd's needle a white-flowered common plant, Scandix pecten-veneris, with spiny fruit. shepherd's pie a dish of minced meat under a layer of mashed potato. shepherd's plaid
1 a small black and white check pattern.
2 woollen cloth with this pattern. shepherd's purse a white-flowered hairy cornfield plant, Capsella bursa-pastoris, with triangular or cordate pods.

Etymology:
OE sceaphierde (as SHEEP, HERD)

N  director, manager, governor, rector, comptroller, superintendent, supervisor, straw boss, intendant, overseer, overlooker, supercargo, husband, inspector, visitor, ranger, surveyor, aedile, moderator, monitor, taskmaster, master, leader, ringleader, demagogue, corypheus, conductor, fugleman, precentor, bellwether, agitator, caporal, choregus, collector, file leader, flugelman, linkboy, guiding star, adviser, guide, pilot, helmsman, steersman, steermate, wire-puller, driver, whip, Jehu, charioteer, coachman, carman, cabman, postilion, vetturino, muleteer, arriero, teamster, whipper in, head, head man, head center, boss, principal, president, speaker, chair, chairman, chairwoman, chairperson, captain, superior, mayor, vice president, prime minister, premier, vizier, grand vizier, eparch, officer, functionary, minister, official, red-tapist, bureaucrat, man in office, Jack in office, office bearer, person in authority, statesman, strategist, legislator, lawgiver, politician, statist, statemonger, Minos, Draco, arbiter, boss, political dictator, board, secretary, secretary of state, Reis Effendi, vicar, steward, factor, agent, bailiff, middleman, foreman, clerk of works, landreeve, factotum, major-domo, seneschal, housekeeper, shepherd, croupier, proctor, procurator, ex officio.

N  clergy, clericals, ministry, priesthood, presbytery, the cloth, the desk, clergyman, divine, ecclesiastic, churchman, priest, presbyter, hierophant, pastor, shepherd, minister, father, father in Christ, padre, abbe, cure, patriarch, reverend, black coat, confessor, dignitaries of the church, ecclesiarch, hierarch, ebdomarius, eminence, reverence, elder, primate, metropolitan, archbishop, bishop, prelate, diocesan, suffragan, dean, subdean, archdeacon, prebendary, canon, rural dean, rector, parson, vicar, perpetual curate, residentiary, beneficiary, incumbent, chaplain, curate, deacon, deaconess, preacher, reader, lecturer, capitular, missionary, propagandist, Jesuit, revivalist, field preacher, churchwarden, sidesman, clerk, precentor, choir, almoner, suisse, verger, beadle, sexton, sacristan, acolyth, acolothyst, acolyte, altar boy, chorister, Pope, Papa, pontiff, high priest, cardinal, ancient flamen, flamen, confessor, penitentiary, spiritual director, cenobite, conventual, abbot, prior, monk, friar, lay brother, beadsman, mendicant, pilgrim, palmer, canon regular, canon secular, Franciscan, Friars minor, Minorites, Observant, Capuchin, Dominican, Carmelite, Augustinian, Gilbertine, Austin Friars, Black Friars, White Friars, Gray Friars, Crossed Friars, Crutched Friars, Bonhomme, Carthusian, Benedictine, Cistercian, Trappist, Cluniac, Premonstatensian, Maturine, Templar, Hospitaler, Bernardine, Lorettine, pillarist, stylite, abbess, prioress, canoness, religieuse, nun, novice, postulant, prophet, priest, high priest, Levite, Rabbi, Rabbin, Rebbe, scribe, mullah, muezzin, ayatollah, ulema, imaum, imam, sheik, sufi, kahin, kassis, mufti, hadji, dervish, fakir, faquir, brahmin, guru, kaziaskier, poonghie, sanyasi, druid, bonze, santon, abdal, Lama, talapoin, caloyer, the Reverend, the very Reverend, the Right Reverend, ordained, in orders, called to the ministry.

N  husbandry, taming, circuration, zoohygiantics, domestication, domesticity, manege, veterinary art, farriery, breeding, pisciculture, menagerie, vivarium, zoological garden, bear pit, aviary, apiary, alveary, beehive, hive, aquarium, fishery, duck pond, fish pond, phthisozoics, euthanasia, sacrifice, humane destruction, neatherd, cowherd, shepherd, grazier, drover, cowkeeper, trainer, breeder, apiarian, apiarist, bull whacker, cowboy, cow puncher, farrier, horse leech, horse doctor, vaquero, veterinarian, vet, veterinary surgeon, cage, hencoop, bird cage, cauf, range, sheepfold, pastoral, bucolic, tame, domestic.

belgian shepherd, german shepherd, german shepherd dog, good shepherd, shepherd dog

1.  pipe(n = noun.artifact) tobacco pipe - a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco;
is a kind of tube, tubing
has parts: bowl, pipe bowl, mouthpiece, stem
has particulars: briar, briar pipe, calabash, calabash pipe, calumet, peace pipe, pipe of peace, clay pipe, calean, chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe, meerschaum

2.  pipe(n = noun.artifact) pipage, piping - a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.;
is a kind of tube, tubing
has parts: spout
has particulars: chimneypot, discharge pipe, drain, drainpipe, waste pipe, drilling pipe, elbow, exhaust pipe, fuel line, gas line, petrol line, main, manifold, line, pipeline, riser, riser main, riser pipe, riser pipeline, sparge pipe, standpipe, steam line, steam pipe, tailpipe
Derived form verb pipe₂

3.  pipe(n = noun.shape) tube - a hollow cylindrical shape;
is a kind of cylinder

4.  pipe(n = noun.artifact) - a tubular wind instrument;
is a kind of wind, wind instrument
has particulars: bagpipe, chanter, melody pipe, bourdon, drone, drone pipe, fipple flute, fipple pipe, recorder, vertical flute, pandean pipe, panpipe, syrinx, pitch pipe
Derived form verb pipe₃

5.  pipe(n = noun.artifact) organ pipe, pipework - the flues and stops on a pipe organ;
is a kind of wind, wind instrument
is a part of organ, pipe organ
has particulars: flue, flue pipe, labial pipe, organ stop, reed pipe

1.  pipe(v = verb.communication) pipe up, shriek, shrill - utter a shrill cry;
is one way to call, cry, holler, hollo, scream, shout, shout out, squall, yell
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

2.  pipe(v = verb.motion) - transport by pipeline; "pipe oil, water, and gas into the desert"
is one way to transport
Derived forms noun pipage₂, noun pipage₁, noun pipe₂, noun piping₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something to somebody; Somebody ----s something PP

3.  pipe(v = verb.creation) - play on a pipe; "pipe a tune"
is one way to play
Derived forms noun pipe₄, noun piper₁, noun piping₃
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

4.  pipe(v = verb.creation) - trim with piping; "pipe the skirt"
is one way to adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament
Derived form noun piping₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

1.  A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ. Milton. [1913 Webster]
"Now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe." [1913 Webster]

2.  Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc. [1913 Webster]

3.  A small bowl with a hollow stem, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances. [1913 Webster]

4.  A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions. [1913 Webster]

5.  The key or sound of the voice. Shak. [1913 Webster]

6.  The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird. [1913 Webster]
"The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds." [1913 Webster]

7.  The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow. [1913 Webster]

8.  An elongated body or vein of ore. [1913 Webster]

9.  A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king; -- so called because put together like a pipe. Mozley & W. [1913 Webster]

10.  A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it. [1913 Webster]

11.  A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains. [1913 Webster]

1.  To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music. [1913 Webster]
"We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced." [1913 Webster]

2.  To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain. [1913 Webster]

3.  To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle. Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]

4.  To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel. [1913 Webster]

1.  To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe. [1913 Webster]
"A robin . . . was piping a few querulous notes." [1913 Webster]

2.  To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle. [1913 Webster]
"As fine a ship's company as was ever piped aloft." [1913 Webster]

3.  To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building. [1913 Webster]

pipe, n. & v.
--n.
1 a tube of metal, plastic, wood, etc. used to convey water, gas, etc.
2 (also tobacco-pipe) a a narrow wooden or clay etc. tube with a bowl at one end containing burning tobacco, the smoke from which is drawn into the mouth. b the quantity of tobacco held by this (smoked a pipe).
3 Mus. a a wind instrument consisting of a single tube. b any of the tubes by which sound is produced in an organ. c (in pl.) = BAGPIPES. d (in pl.) a set of pipes joined together, e.g. pan-pipes.
4 a tubal organ, vessel, etc. in an animal's body.
5 a high note or song, esp. of a bird.
6 a cylindrical vein of ore.
7 a cavity in cast metal.
8 a a boatswain's whistle. b the sounding of this.
9 a cask for wine, esp. as a measure of two hogsheads, usu. equivalent to 105 gallons (about 477 litres).
10 archaic the voice, esp. in singing.
--v.tr.
1 (also absol.) play (a tune etc.) on a pipe or pipes.
2 a convey (oil, water, gas, etc.) by pipes. b provide with pipes.
3 transmit (music, a radio programme, etc.) by wire or cable.
4 (usu. foll. by up, on, to, etc.) Naut. a summon (a crew) to a meal, work, etc. b signal the arrival of (an officer etc.) on board.
5 utter in a shrill voice; whistle.
6 a arrange (icing, cream, etc.) in decorative lines or twists on a cake etc. b ornament (a cake etc.) with piping.
7 trim (a dress etc.) with piping.
8 lead or bring (a person etc.) by the sound of a pipe.
9 propagate (pinks etc.) by taking cuttings at the joint of a stem.

Idiom:
pipe away give a signal for (a boat) to start. pipe-cleaner a piece of flexible covered wire for cleaning a tobacco-pipe. pipe down
1 colloq. be quiet or less insistent.
2 Naut. dismiss from duty. pipe-fish any of various long slender fish of the family Syngnathidae, with an elongated snout. pipe-light a spill for lighting a pipe. pipe major an NCO commanding regimental pipers. pipe-organ Mus. an organ using pipes instead of or as well as reeds. pipe-rack a rack for holding tobacco-pipes. pipe-rolls hist. the annual records of the British Exchequer from the 12th-19th c. prob. because subsidiary documents were rolled in pipe form. pipe-stem the shaft of a tobacco-pipe. pipe-stone a hard red clay used by US Indians for tobacco-pipes. pipe up begin to play, sing, speak, etc. put that in your pipe and smoke it colloq. a challenge to another to accept something frank or unwelcome.

Derivative:
pipeful n. (pl. -fuls). pipeless adj. pipy adj.

Etymology:
OE pipe, pipian & OF piper f. Gmc ult. f. L pipare peep, chirp

N  method, way, manner, wise, gait, form, mode, fashion, tone, guise, modus operandi, MO, procedure, path, road, route, course, line of way, line of road, trajectory, orbit, track, beat, tack, steps, stair, staircase, flight of stairs, ladder, stile, perron, bridge, footbridge, viaduct, pontoon, steppingstone, plank, gangway, drawbridge, pass, ford, ferry, tunnel, pipe, door, gateway, channel, passage, avenue, means of access, approach, adit, artery, lane, loan, alley, aisle, lobby, corridor, back-door, back-stairs, secret passage, covert way, vennel, roadway, pathway, stairway, express, thoroughfare, highway, turnpike, freeway, royal road, coach road, broad highway, King's highway, Queen's highway, beaten track, beaten path, horse road, bridle road, bridle track, bridle path, walk, trottoir, footpath, pavement, flags, sidewalk, crossroad, byroad, bypath, byway, cut, short cut carrefour, private road, occupation road, highways and byways, railroad, railway, tram road, tramway, towpath, causeway, canal, street, speedway, adv, how, in what way, in what manner, by what mode, so, in this way, after this fashion, one way or another, anyhow, somehow or other, by way of, via, in transitu, on the high road to, hae tibi erunt artes.

VB  lament, mourn, deplore, grieve, weep over, bewail, bemoan, condole with, fret, wear mourning, go into mourning, put on mourning, wear the willow, wear sackcloth and ashes, infandum renovare dolorem, give sorrow words, sigh, give a sigh, heave, fetch a sigh, waft a sigh from Indus to the pole, sigh 'like a furnace', wail, cry, weep, sob, greet, blubber, pipe, snivel, bibber, whimper, pule, pipe one's eye, drop tears, shed tears, drop a tear, shed a tear, melt into tears, burst into tears, fondre en larmes, cry oneself blind, cry one's eyes out, yammer, scream, mew, groan, moan, whine, roar, roar like a bull, bellow like a bull, cry out lustily, rend the air, frown, scowl, make a wry face, gnash one's teeth, wring one's hands, tear one's hair, beat one's breast, roll on the ground, burst with grief, complain, murmur, mutter, grumble, growl, clamor, make a fuss about, croak, grunt, maunder, deprecate, cry out before one is hurt, complain without cause.

N  opening, hole, foramen, puncture, perforation, fontanel, transforation, pinhole, keyhole, loophole, porthole, peephole, mousehole, pigeonhole, eye of a needle, eyelet, slot, opening, aperture, apertness, hiation, yawning, oscitancy, dehiscence, patefaction, pandiculation, chasm, embrasure, window, casement, abatjour, light, sky light, fan light, lattice, bay window, bow window, oriel, dormer, lantern, outlet, inlet, vent, vomitory, embouchure, orifice, mouth, sucker, muzzle, throat, gullet, weasand, wizen, nozzle, placket, portal, porch, gate, ostiary, postern, wicket, trapdoor, hatch, door, arcade, cellarway, driveway, gateway, doorway, hatchway, gangway, lich gate, way, path, thoroughfare, channel, passage, passageway, tube, pipe, water pipe, air pipe, vessel, tubule, canal, gut, fistula, adjutage, ajutage, ostium, smokestack, chimney, flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main, mine, pit, adit, shaft, gallery, alley, aisle, glade, vista, bore, caliber, pore, blind orifice, fulgurite, thundertube, porousness, porosity, sieve, cullender, colander, cribble, riddle, screen, honeycomb, apertion, perforation, piercing, terebration, empalement, pertusion, puncture, acupuncture, penetration, key, opener, master key, password, combination, passe- partout, open, perforated, perforate, wide open, ajar, unclosed, unstopped, oscitant, gaping, yawning, patent, tubular, cannular, fistulous, pervious, permeable, foraminous, vesicular, vasicular, porous, follicular, cribriform, honeycombed, infundibular, riddled, tubulous, tubulated, piped, tubate, opening, aperient, Int, open sesame!.

N  conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race, head race, tail race, abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito, acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre, arroyo, adit, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile, flume, ingate, runner, lock-weir, tedge, vena, dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon, piscina, pipe, funnel, tunnel, water pipe, waste pipe, emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper, adjutage, ajutage, hose, gargoyle, gurgoyle, penstock, weir, flood gate, water gate, sluice, lock, valve, rose, waterworks, pipeline, vascular.

N  airpipe, air pipe, air tube, airhole, blowhole, breathinghole, venthole, shaft, flue, chimney, funnel, vent, nostril, nozzle, throat, weasand, trachea, bronchus, bronchia, larynx, tonsils, windpipe, spiracle, ventiduct, ventilator, louvre, jalousie, Venetian blinds, blowpipe, pipe, jhilmil, smokestack, screen, window screen, ' artificial lung, iron lung, heart and lung machine.

VB  creak, grate, jar, burr, pipe, twang, jangle, clank, clink, scream, yelp, buzz, set the teeth on edge, corcher les oreilles, pierce the ears, split the ears, split the head, offend the ear, grate upon the ear, jar upon the ear.

VB  cry, roar, shout, bawl, brawl, halloo, halloa, hoop, whoop, yell, bellow, howl, scream, screech, screak, shriek, shrill, squeak, squeal, squall, whine, pule, pipe, yaup, cheer, hoot, grumble, moan, groan, snore, snort, grunt, vociferate, raise up the voice, lift up the voice, call out, sing out, cry out, exclaim, rend the air, thunder at the top of one's voice, shout at the top of one's voice, shout at the pitch of one's breath, thunder at the pitch of one's breath, s'_egosiller, strain the throat, strain the voice, strain the lungs, give a cry.

VB  cry, roar, bellow, blare, rebellow, growl, snarl, bark, bow-wow, yelp, bay, bay at the moon, yap, yip, yipe, growl, yarr, yawl, snarl, howl, grunt, gruntle, snort, squeak neigh, whinny, bray, mew, mewl, meow, purr, caterwaul, pule, baa, bleat, low, moo, troat, croak, peep, coo, gobble, quack, honk, gaggle, guggle, crow, caw, squawk, screech cackle, cluck, clack, chuck, chuckle, hoot, hoo, chirp, cheep, chirrup, twitter, cuckoo, warble, trill, tweet, pipe, whistle, hum, buzz, hiss, blatter, ratatat.

VB  play, pipe, strike up, sweep the chords, tweedle, fiddle, strike the lyre, beat the drum, blow the horn, sound the horn, wind the horn, doodle, grind the organ, touch the guitar, thrum, strum, beat time, execute, perform, accompany, sing a second, play a second, compose, set to music, arrange, sing, chaunt, chant, hum, warble, carol, chirp, chirrup, lilt, purl, quaver, trill, shake, twitter, whistle, sol-fa, intone, have an ear for music, have a musical ear, have a correct ear.

N  musical instruments, band, string-band, brass-band, orchestra, orchestrina, monochord, polychord, harp, lyre, lute, archlute, mandola, mandolin, mandoline, guitar, zither, cither, cithern, gittern, rebeck, bandurria, bandura, banjo, bina, vina, xanorphica, viol, violin, fiddle, kit, viola, viola d'amore, viola di gamba, tenor, cremona, violoncello, bass, bass viol, base viol, theorbo, double base, contrabasso, violone, psaltery, bow, fiddlestick, piano, pianoforte, harpsichord, clavichord, clarichord, manichord, clavier, spinet, virginals, dulcimer, hurdy-gurdy, vielle, pianino, Eolian harp, organ, harmonium, harmoniphon, American organ, barrel organ, hand organ, accordion, seraphina, concertina, humming top, flute, fife, piccolo, flageolet, clarinet, claronet, basset horn, corno di bassetto, oboe, hautboy, cor Anglais, corno Inglese, bassoon, double bassoon, contrafagotto, serpent, bass clarinet, bagpipes, union pipes, musette, ocarina, Pandean pipes, reed instrument, sirene, pipe, pitch-pipe, sourdet, whistle, catcall, doodlesack, harmoniphone, horn, bugle, cornet, cornet-a-pistons, cornopean, clarion, trumpet, trombone, ophicleide, French horn, saxophone, sax, buglehorn, saxhorn, flugelhorn, althorn, helicanhorn, posthorn, sackbut, euphonium, bombardon tuba, cymbal, bell, gong, tambour, tambourine, tamborine, drum, tom-tom, tabor, tabret, tabourine, taborin, side drum, kettle drum, timpani, tympani, tymbal, timbrel, castanet, bones, musical glasses, musical stones, harmonica, sounding-board, rattle, tam-tam, zambomba, reed, tuning fork, triangle, Jew's harp, musical box, harmonicon, xylophone, sordine, sordet, sourdine, sourdet, mute, (iv) PERCEPTION OF SOUND.

air pipe, blast pipe, briar pipe, calabash pipe, clay pipe, corncob pipe, discharge pipe, drilling pipe, drone pipe, exhaust pipe, fipple pipe, flue pipe, indian pipe, labial pipe, melody pipe, musette pipe, organ pipe, pandean pipe, peace pipe, pipe bomb, pipe bowl, pipe clamp, pipe clay, pipe cleaner, pipe cutter, pipe down, pipe dream, pipe fitter, pipe fitting, pipe in, pipe layer, pipe laying, pipe line, pipe major, pipe of peace, pipe organ, pipe rack, pipe roll, pipe smoker, pipe up, pipe vine, pipe vise, pipe wrench, pitch pipe, pudding pipe tree, reed pipe, riser pipe, shepherd's pipe, soil pipe, sparge pipe, steam pipe, tabor pipe, tobacco pipe, waste pipe, water pipe