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To fill with breath; to puff up. Sir T. Herbert.

The herb agrimony. [Obs.]

A large, coarse herb (Inula Helenium), with composite yellow flowers. The root, which has a pungent taste, is used as a tonic, and was formerly of much repute as a stomachic.

A composite herb (Cichorium Endivia). Its finely divided and much curled leaves, when blanched, are used for salad. Wild endive (Bot.), chicory or succory.

duskier wreaths her braided locks. Shelley. Thy glorious household stuff did me entwine. Herbert.

A genus of vascular, cryptogamic, herbaceous plants; -- also called horsetails.

Pertaining to, or derived from, a genus of cruciferous Mediterranean herbs (Eruca or Brassica); as, erucic acid, a fatty acid resembling oleic acid, and found in colza oil, mustard oil, etc.

A genus of perennial, composite herbs including hemp agrimony, boneset, throughwort, etc.

Spurge, or bastard spurge, a genus of plants of many species, mostly shrubby, herbaceous succulents, affording an acrid, milky juice. Some of them are armed with thorns. Most of them yield powerful emetic and cathartic products.

from India and China. It has a strong odor, and is said to be obtained from the urine of herbivorous animals when fed on the mango. It consists if a magnesium salt of euxanthic acid. Called also puri, purree, and Indian yellow.

, To try; to know, perceive, or prove, by trial experience. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.

A frivolous or featherbrained person. [Colloq.] H. James.

To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle; as, if grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep. Once in three years feed your mowing lands. Mortimer.

A European herb (Swertia perennis) of the Gentian family.

um dulce). It is a smaller and stouter plant than the common fennel, and is used as a pot herb. -- Dog's fennel (Anthemis Cotula), a foul-smelling European weed; -- called also mayweed. -- Fennel flower (Bot.), an herb (Nigella) of the Buttercup family, having leaves finely divided, like those of the fennel. N.Damasc…

ee Spicewood. -- Fever powder. Same as Jame's powder. -- Fever root (Bot.), an American herb of the genus Triosteum (T. perfoliatum); -- called also feverwort amd horse gentian. -- Fever sore, a carious ulcer or necrosis. Miner.

A genus of herbaceous plants (Scrophularia), mostly found in the north temperate zones. See Brownwort.

The great willow-herb (Epilobium spicatum).

tightly for the purpose of striking a blow. Who grasp the earth and heaven with my fist. Herbert.

s head. Shak. O, fix thy chair of grace, that all my powers May also fix their reverence. Herbert. His heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord. Ps. cxii. 7. And fix far deeper in his head their stings. Milton.