Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for HERB'AGE
HERB'AGE, n. [Fr. from herbe.]
- Herbs collectively; grass; pasture; green food for beasts. The influence of true religion is mild, soft and noiseless, and constant, as the descent of the evening dew on the tender herbage. Buckminster.
- In law, the liberty or right of pasture in the forest or grounds of another man. Encyc.
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