shepherd

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. One who herds, guards, and tends sheep.
2. n. One who cares for and guides a group of people, as a minister or teacher.
3. n. A German shepherd.
4. v. To herd, guard, tend, or guide as or in the manner of a shepherd. See Synonyms at guide.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A man who herds, tends, and guards sheep in pasture; a pastor.
2. To tend or guide as a shepherd.
3. To attend or wait on; gallant.
4. To watch over, as a mining claim, and establish a right to it by doing a certain-amount of work on it: said especially of digging small pits in the neighborhood of a rich deposit of gold; hence, to attend or hang about (a person) on the chance of getting something out of him.
5. n. A miner who does not work a claim, though preserving his legal rights respecting it.

Wiktionary

1. n. A person who tends sheep.
2. n. figuratively Someone who watches over, looks after, or guides somebody.
3. v. To watch over; to guide
4. v. Australian rules football For a player to obstruct an opponent from getting to the ball, either when a teammate has it or is going for it, or if the ball is about to bounce through the goal or out of bounds.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A man employed in tending, feeding, and guarding sheep, esp. a flock grazing at large.
2. n. The pastor of a church; one with the religious guidance of others.
3. v. Poetic To tend as a shepherd; to guard, herd, lead, or drive, as a shepherd.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock
2. v. watch over like a shepherd, as a teacher of her pupils
3. n. a clergyman who watches over a group of people
4. v. tend as a shepherd, as of sheep or goats