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Herbalist   Listen
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Herbalist  n.  One skilled in the knowledge of plants; a collector of, or dealer in, herbs, especially medicinal herbs.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Herbalist" Quotes from Famous Books



... he praises as nutritious and pleasant to the taste, yet, as Gerarde the herbalist also says, flatulent. Venner refers to a mode of sopping them in wine as existing in his time. They were sometimes roasted in the embers, and there were other ways of dressing them. John Forster, of Hanlop, in Bucks, wrote a pamphlet in 1664 to shew that the more extended ...
— Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine • William Carew Hazlitt

... in the public ear; but I am afraid the success was not equal to the promise or the boast. Thus, there was in London an old manor house in Clerkenwell, previously the residence of the Northampton family, which was converted into a private asylum by Dr. Newton the herbalist. His work, "The Herbal," was published by his son some years afterwards. There appeared in the Post Boy (No. 741) in the year 1700 an advertisement from Dr. Newton, which runs as follows:—"In Clerkenwell Close, where ...
— Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles • Daniel Hack Tuke

... group of plants for Matthias de l'Obel, a Flemish botanist, or herbalist more likely, who became physician to James ...
— Wild Flowers Worth Knowing • Neltje Blanchan et al

... The herbalist was not alone. A tall dark figure stood between us and the little window as we went in, blotting ...
— Milly Darrell and Other Tales • M. E. Braddon



Words linked to "Herbalist" :   healer, therapist, herb doctor



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