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science of botany. -- Botanic physician, a physician whose medicines consist chiefly of herbs and roots.

One who, or that which, limits; a boundary. Sir T. Herbert.

ony; a marriage. Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky. Herbert.

gh Church party and the Low Church, or evangelical, party. The term has been applied to otherbodies of men holding liberal or comprehensive views of Christian doctrine and fellowship. Side by side with these various shades of High and Low Church, another party of a different character has always existed in the Church o…

A small white-flowered herb (Samolus Valerandi) found usually in wet places; water pimpernel.

The buffalo. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.

A perennial white-flowered herb of the order Ranunculaceæ and genus Cimiciguga; bugwort. There are several species.

A division of the herbivorous mammals including the hogs and hippopotami; -- so called because the teeth are tuberculated.

A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals.

A genus of perennial herbs (Poterium); especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet. Burnet moth (Zoöl.), in England, a handsome moth (Zygæna filipendula), with crimson spots on the wings. -- Burnet saxifrage. (Bot.) See Saxifrage. -- Canadian burnet, a marsh plant (Poterium Canadensis). -- Great burnet,…

and burnish as his brothers do. Dryden. My thoughts began to burnish, sprout, and swell. Herbert.

A genus of low herbs (Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North Temperate zone.

uded, private, or obscure way; a path or road aside from the main one. " Take no byways." Herbert.

A leg of mutton roasted, stuffed with white herrings and sweet herbs. Wright.

A genus of showy herbaceous or shrubby plant, biought from South America; slipperwort. It has a yellow or purple flower, often spotted or striped, the shape of which suggests its name.

A genus of composite herbaceous plants. One species, Calendula officinalis, is the common marigold, and was supposed to blossom on the calends of every month, whence the name.

A genus of herbaceous plants (Tribulus) of the order Zygophylleæ, having a hard several-celled fruit, armed with stout spines, and resembling the military instrument of the same name. The species grow in warm countries, and are often very annoying to cattle.

Wavy or undulating like camlet; veined. Sir T. Herbert.

A genus of herbs (Anthemis) of the Composite family. The common camomile, A. nobilis, is used as a popular remedy. Its flowers have a strong and fragrant and a bitter, aromatic taste. They are tonic, febrifugal, and in large doses emetic, and the volatile oil is carminative.

To infect or pollute; to corrupt. Addison. A tithe purloined canker the whole estate. Herbert.