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Bearing herbs or vegetation.

A herbalist.

An extensive division of Mammalia. It formerly included the Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, Perissodactyla, and Artiodactyla, but by later writers it is generally restricted to the two latter groups (Ungulata). They feed almost exclusively upon vegetation.

One of the Herbivora. P. H. Gosse.

Eating plants; of or pertaining to the Herbivora.

Destitute of herbs or of vegetation. J. Warton.

A small herb. Shak.

A herbalist. Ray.

The act of herborizing.

To search for plants, or new species of plants, with a view to classifying them. He herborized as he traveled. W. Tooke.

A harbor. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Abounding with herbs. "Fields poetically called herbose." Byrom.

Having the nature of, pertaining to, or covered with, herbs or herbage. "Herby valleys." Chapman.

The deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna). Dr. Prior.

A substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of geese and turkeys.

The mallow.

A large sea turtle (Sphargis coriacea), having no bony shell on its back. It is common in the warm and temperate parts of the Atlantic, and sometimes weighs over a thousand pounds; -- called also leather turtle, leathery turtle, leather-backed tortoise, etc.

See Sherbet.

of the juice of some fruit, diluted, sweetened, and flavored in various ways; as, orange sherbet; lemon sherbet; raspberry sherbet, etc.

To take another turn with, as a cable around a windlass. Totten.