Emily Dickinson Lexicon
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.]
- The act of seeking plants in the field; botanical research.
- 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.
- Searching for plants.
- 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.]
- 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.
- Having extraordinary strength and size; as, Herculean limbs.
- 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.]
- 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.
- 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.
- To unite or assocaate, as beasts; to feed or run in collections. Most kinds of beasts manifest a disposition to herd.
- To associate; to unite in companies customarily.
- 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.