Dictionary: HERB-ES'CENT – HERD'ESS

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HERB-ES'CENT, a. [L. herbescens.]

Growing into herbs.

HERB'ID, a. [L. herbidus.]

Covered with herbs. [Little used.]

HERB-IF'ER-OUS, a.

Bearing herbs.

HERB'IST, n.

One skilled in herbs.

HERB-IV'O-RA, n. [plur.]

In science, animals subsisting on herbs or vegetables.

HERB-IV'O-ROUS, a. [L. herba and voro, to eat.]

Eating herbs; subsisting on herbaceous plants; feeding on vegetables. The ox and the horse are herbivorous animals.

HERB'LESS, a.

Destitute of herbs. Warton.

HERB'O-RIST, n. [See HERBALIST.]

Ray.

HERB-O-RI-ZA'TION, n. [from herborize.]

  1. The act of seeking plants in the field; botanical research.
  2. The figure of plants in mineral substances. [See Arborization.] Dict. Nat. Hist.

HERB'O-RIZE, v.i.

To search for plants, or to seek new species of plants, with a view to ascertain their characters and to class them. He herborized as he traveled, and enriched the Flora Suecica with new discoveries. Tooke.

HERB'O-RIZE, v.t.

To figure; to form the figures of plants in minerals. [See Arborize.] Fourcroy.

HERB'O-RIZ-ED, pp.

Figured; containing the figure of a plant; as a mineral body. Daubenton has shown that herborized stones contain very fine mosses. Fourcroy.

HERB'O-RIZ-ING, ppr.

  1. Searching for plants.
  2. Forming the figures of plants in minerals.

HERB'OUS, a. [L. herbosus.]

Abounding with herbs.

HERB-ROB-ERT, n.

A plant, a species of Geranium.

HERB'WO-MAN, n. [erb'woman.]

A woman that sells herbs.

HERB'Y, a.

Having the nature of herbs. [Little used.] Bacon.

HER-CU'LE-AN, a. [from Hercules. See Club of Hercules.]

  1. Very great, difficult or dangerous; such as it would require the strength or courage of Hercules to encounter or accomplish; as, Herculean labor or task.
  2. Having extraordinary strength and size; as, Herculean limbs.
  3. Of extraordinary strength, force or power.

HER'CU-LES, n.

A constellation in the northern hemisphere, containing 113 stars. Encyc.

HER-CYN'I-AN, a. [from Hercynia; G. harz, resin.]

Denoting an extensive forest in Germany, the remains of which are now in Swabia.

HERD, n.1 [Sax. herd, heord; G. herde; Sw. and Dan. hiord; Basque, ardi. Words of this kind have for their primary sense, collection, assemblage. So in Saxon, here is an army. It may be from driving, W. gyr or hèr.]

  1. A collection or assemblage; applied to beasts when feeding or driven together. We say, a herd of horses, oxen, cattle, camels, elephants, bucks, harts, and in Scripture, a herd of swine. But we say, a flock of sheep, goats or birds. A number of cattle going to market is called a drove.
  2. A company of men or people, in contempt or detestation; a crowd; a rabble; as, a vulgar herd.

HERD, n.2 [Sax. hyrd; G. hirt; Sw. herde; Dan. hyrde or hyre; from the same root as the preceding, that is, the holder or keeper.]

A keeper of cattle; used by Spenser, and still used in Scotland, but in English now seldom or never used, except in composition, as a shepherd, a goatherd, a swineherd.

HERD, v.i.

  1. To unite or assocaate, as beasts; to feed or run in collections. Most kinds of beasts manifest a disposition to herd.
  2. To associate; to unite in companies customarily.
  3. To associate; to become one of a number or party. Walsh.

HERD, v.t.

To form or put into a herd. B. Jonson.

HERD'ESS, n.

A shepherdess. [Obs.] Chaucer.