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herbalist
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Word definitions for herbalist in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ In high amounts hops are such a potent sedative that Clement, working as an herbalist , offers them to dental patients. ▪ The herbalist adjusted his wide, white medical headband.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Herbalist \Herb"al*ist\, n. One skilled in the knowledge of plants; a collector of, or dealer in, herbs, especially medicinal herbs.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A person who treats diseases by means of medicinal herbs.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s; see herbal + -ist . Earlier such a person might have been called herber (early 13c. as a surname).
Usage examples of herbalist.
Any of a group of healers, herbalists, agriculturalists, scribes, cartographers, and crafters based in the Head holding and roaming throughout Eiden Myr.
Dandelion, Gentian and Valerian for some reason have survived and the Homeopaths use many more, but such useful plants as Agrimony, Slippery Elm, Horehound, Bistort, Poplar, Bur Marigold, Wood Betony, Wood Sanicle, Wild Carrot, Raspberry leaves, and the Sarsaparillas are now only used by Herbalists.
Herbalists talk about Jalap and Black Haw, but to the uninitiated Bindweed and Guelder Rose are far more familiar, and it is under these names that they will be found in this herbal.
CC: The word brujos, the Spanish conception, it could be translated in various ways, in English could render a sorcerer, witch, medicine man or herbalist or curer, and, of course, the technical word shaman.
The great herbalist, looking uglier than ever before because of his drunkenness, began to utter the most controversial statements.
Ghurran said, and Kang Hou turned his expressionless gaze on the herbalist.
I had him banished, along with every other shaman and allopathist and herbalist and charlatan that tried to treat my father .
Old herbalists affirmed that the root of this same Bedstraw, if drunk in wine, stimulates amorous desires, and that the flowers, if long smelt at, will produce a similar effect.
In a rosery of Fetter lane of Gerard, herbalist, he walks, greyedauburn.
She was a healer and herbalist, known throughout the truck farming area for her success with fevers and suppurating wounds.
The highest names in France - the Princesse de Tingry, the Duchesse de Vitry, the Duchesse de Lusignan, the Duchesse de Bouillon, the Comtesse de Soissons, the Duc de Luxembourg, the Marguis de Cessac - scores of the older aristocracy, were involved, whilst literally hundreds of venal apothecaries, druggists, pseudo-alchemists, astrologers, quacks, warlocks, magicians, charlatans, who revolved round the ominous and terrible figure of Catherine La Voisin, professional seeress, fortune-teller, herbalist, beauty-specialist, were caught in the meshes of law.
Enough to eke out the livelihood she made as herbalist to the village folk in the Dorsetshire countryside.
Kilisha had never heard of jewelweed, but she assumed she could get it from any good herbalist.
They are sorcerers, herbalists, oldwives and even, God save us, mages.
A few of the more obscure or minor sorts of magician had turned up, such as oneiromancers and herbalists, but after much discussion had not stayed.