Shepherdess: alternatives and connections

Pertaining to fields or the country, in opposition to the city; rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth.

The management of land; rural economy; agriculture.

A mountainous and picturesque district of Greece, in the heart of the Peloponnesus, whose people were distinguished for contentment an…

Of or pertaining to Arcadia; pastoral; ideally rural; as, Arcadian simplicity or scenery.

A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean.

An ancient rural game, commonly played round stacks of barley, or other grain, in which some of the party attempt to catch others who…

A law made by husbandmen respecting rural affairs; a rustic or local law or by-law.

To make the noise of, or one like that of, a sheep; to cry like a sheep or calf.

A "bonny lass"; a beautiful girl.

A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Vi…

A woman who picks up rags in the streets; hence, a low, vulgar woman.

A "country" or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural di…

To give a rural appearance to; to cause to appear rustic.

Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town.

A particular rural district; a country neighborhood.

The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time.

An inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen.

Any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to change, their relative condition as to rest or motion; or, more generally, wh…