Thesaurus: herd

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1. a. Haired.
2. n. 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.
3. n. A crowd of low people; a rabble.
4. n. One who herds or assembles domestic animals; a herdsman; -- much used in composition; as, a shepherd; a goatherd, and the like.
5. v. i. To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company; as, sheep herd on many hills.
6. v. i. To associate; to ally one's self with, or place one's self among, a group or company.
7. v. i. To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
8. v. t. To form or put into a herd.
9. n. a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans
10. n. a group of wild mammals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra
11. n. a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things
12. v. cause to herd, drive, or crowd together