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To glimmer; to twinkle. [Obs.] Yet can I mark how stars above Simper and shine. Herbert.

One who collects simples, or medicinal plants; a herbalist; a simplist. Simpler's joy. (Bot.) Vervain.

cially, to take in with the lips in small quantities, as a liquid; as, to sip tea. "Every herb that sips the dew." Milton.

An order of large aquatic herbivorous mammals, including the manatee, dugong, rytina, and several fossil genera.

A thick and viscid liquid made from the juice of fruits, herbs, etc., boiled with sugar.

understanding; to be dexterous in performance. [Obs.] I can not skill of these thy ways. Herbert.

The Lophiomys. Mad-dog skullcap (Bot.), an American herb (Scetellaria lateriflora) formerly prescribed as a cure for hydrophobia.

A West Indian herb (Ruellia tuberosa) with curiously shaped blue flowers.

A European herbaceous plant (Achillea Ptarmica) allied to the yarrow, having a strong, pungent smell.

top of the head and the ear coverts are black. -- Snow plant (Bot.), a fleshy parasitic herb (Sarcodes sanguinea) growing in the coniferous forests of California. It is all of a bright red color, and is fabled to grow from the snow, through which it sometimes shoots up.

To lie snug or quiet. [Obs.] Herbert.

A perennial herb (Gypsophila Struthium) the root of which is used in Spain as a substitute for soap.

An Asiatic leguminous herb (Glycine Soja) the seeds of which are used in preparing the sauce called soy.

d by the action of the sun, or peculiarly affected by its influence. They denominate some herbs solar, and some lunar. Bacon. Solar cycle. See under Cycle. -- Solar day. See Day, 2. -- Solar engine, an engine in which the energy of solar heat is used to produce motion, as in evaporating water for a steam engine, or e…

A plant of the genus Soldanella, low Alpine herbs of the Primrose family.

A genus of yellow-flowered composite perennial herbs; golden- rod.

A kind of beverage; sherbet. Smolett.

hey are happy whose natures sort with their vocations. Bacon. Things sort not to my will. herbert. I can not tell you precisely how they sorted. Sir W. Scott.

To exercise supreme authority. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.

Any plant of the genus Veronica, mostly low herbs with pale blue corollas, which quickly fall off.