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to put more cattle into, as a common, than the person has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain. Blackstone.

Not suspecting; having no suspicion. [R.] Sir T. Herbert.

ffers from a bog and a marsh in producing trees and shrubs, while the latter produce only herbage, plants, and mosses. Farming Encyc. (E. Edwards, Words). Swamp blackbird. (Zoöl.) See Redwing (b). -- Swamp cabbage (Bot.), skunk cabbage. -- Swamp deer (Zoöl.), an Asiatic deer (Rucervus Duvaucelli) of India. -- Swamp…

w at last you came to swoop it all. Dryden. The grazing ox which swoops it [the medicinal herb] in with the common grass. Glanvill.

getting some commendam tacked to their sees." Swift. And tacks the center to the sphere. Herbert.

mmon in the seventeenth century, made of eggs, sugar, rose water, cream, and the juice of herbs, baked with butter in a shallow dish. [Obs.] Pepys. Double tansy (Bot.), a variety of the common tansy with the leaves more dissected than usual. -- Tansy mustard (Bot.), a plant (Sisymbrium canescens) of the Mustard family…

A name of several climbing or diffuse leguminous herbs of the genus Vicia; especially, the V. sativa, sometimes grown for fodder.

Having a high relish; savory. "Tasteful herbs." Pope.

To accustom; to guide; to show; to admonish. I shall myself to herbs teach you. Chaucer. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. Jer. ix. 5.

A genus of leguminous shrubby plants and herbs, mostly found in tropical countries, a few herbaceous species being North American. The foliage is often ashy-pubescent, whence the name.

Round; terete. [Obs.] Fotherby.

thankful glass That mends the looker's eyes; this is the well That washes what it shows. Herbert.

Of or pertaining to theriac; medicinal. "Theriacal herbs." Bacon.

Any plant of the composite genus Rudbeckia, coarse herbs somewhat resembling the sunflower; -- so called from their conical receptacles.

A song of lamentation; a threnode. Sir T. Herbert.

An herb (Linaria vulgaris) of the Figwort family, having narrow leaves and showy orange and yellow flowers; -- called also butter and eggs, flaxweed, and ramsted.

A rosaceous herb (Potentilla Tormentilla), the root of which is used as a powerful astringent, and for alleviating gripes, or tormina, in diarrhea.

Hence, to try; to harass. Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men. Herbert.

A gigantic extinct herbivorous mammal from South America, having teeth bent like a bow. It is the type of the order Toxodonta.

To derive or deduce; also, to transmit; to transfer. [Obs.] Fotherby.