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noun

Herb n.

A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering. Note: Annual herbs live but one season; biennial herbs flower the second season, and then die; perennial herbs produce new stems year after year.

Grass; herbage. "And flocks Grazing the tender herb."

Herb bennet. (Bot.) See Bennet.

Herb Christopher (Bot.), an herb (Actaea spicata), whose root is used in nervous diseases; the baneberry. The name is occasionally given to other plants, as the royal fern, the wood betony, etc.

Herb Gerard (Bot.), the goutweed; so called in honor of St. Gerard, who used to be invoked against the gout.

Herb grace, or Herb of grace. (Bot.) See Rue.

Herb Margaret (Bot.), the daisy. See Marguerite.

Herb Paris (Bot.), an Old World plant related to the trillium (Paris quadrifolia), commonly reputed poisonous.

Herb Robert (Bot.), a species of Geranium (Geranium Robertianum.)

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Etymology of 'Herb'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Herb" Quotes from Famous Books

... is rather a strange title; but I read once somewhere that the story about it is, that the Spirit of Evil, envying the good which this herb might do to mankind, bit away part of it and thence ...

— Bob Strong's Holidays - Adrift in the Channel • John Conroy Hutcheson

... until Henry also made a catch and then they gathered more plums and berries. They dug up, too, the root of the Indian turnip, an herb that burnt the mouth like fire, but which Henry said they could use, after soaking it a long time in water. Then they discussed the matter of the fish trap which they thought they could make in a day's work. ...

— The Young Trailers - A Story of Early Kentucky • Joseph A. Altsheler

... necessary to avoid this beverage if such restlessness is to be escaped; still it will generally be found that in cases in which tea has caused serious wakefulness and restless tossing, that there is more than the mere effect of the herb, and that superabundant heat is present also; then the application already pointed ...

— Papers on Health • John Kirk

... when a famish'd wolf, that all night long Had ranged the Alpine snows, by chance at morn Sees from a cliff, incumbent o'er the smoke Of some lone village, a neglected kid That strays along the wild for herb or spring; Down from the winding ridge he sweeps amain, And thinks he tears him: so with tenfold rage, 530 The monster sprung remorseless on his prey. Amazed the stripling stood: with panting breast Feebly he pour'd the lamentable wail Of helpless consternation, struck at ...

— Poetical Works of Akenside - [Edited by George Gilfillan] • Mark Akenside

... or Knotted, and Pot.—Hardy annuals. Aromatic and sweet flavour. Used for stuffings and as a pot herb; leaves dried ...

— Gardening for the Million • Alfred Pink

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