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herbage|ˈhɜːbɪdʒ|
Also 4–6 erbage, 5–6 (sense 3) arbage.
[a. F. herbage, earlier erbage (12th c. in Littré), ad. med.L. herbāticum ‘herba in pratis succisa’, f. herba herb: see -age.]
1. Herbs collectively; herbaceous growth or vegetation; usually applied to grass and other low-growing plants covering a large extent of ground, esp. as used for pasture.
1390Gower Conf. I. 326 She..let her wimpel falle Nigh to the wel upon therbage. 1419Surtees Misc. (1888) 14 The whilke sall kytte the herbage that grewys apon the mote. 1555Eden Decades 188 To renewe the herbage for kyne and other beastes. 1651Hobbes Leviath. i. xiv. 68 He that selleth Land, is understood to transferre the Herbage, and whatsoever growes upon it. 1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. II. xxxiii. 11 A pretty good Garden, that furnishes the Governor's Table with Herbage and Fruits. 1845Darwin Voy. Nat. vi. (1879) 118 From a coarse herbage we passed on to a carpet of fine green verdure. 1856Sir B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. I. i. 4 Steep and lofty chalk hills, covered by a scanty herbage.
†b. Cookery. ? Herbs for garnishing a dish. Obs.
1494Fabyan Chron. (1559) II. 402/2 Brawne and mustarde..Pyke in erbage.
2. The green succulent parts of herbaceous plants; the stem and leaves: = herb 4.
1701Grew Cosmo. Sacra iv. vii. (R.), Which comprehended, with the herbage of plants, their roots, and fruits. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 17 A wholesome food; such as..the herbage of the Water-cress, the cabbage [etc.]. 1872Oliver Elem. Bot. ii. 212 The herbage of Boragineæ is often very coarse and hispid.
3. Law. The natural herbage or pasture of any land as a species of property distinct from the land itself; hence ‘a liberty that a man hath to feede his catell in another mans ground, as in the forest.’ (Cowell Interpr. 1607.)
c1450in Arnolde Chron. (1811) 180 Graunts made..of estate of enheritaunce terme off lyf or terme of yeres or att wylle, of ony herbage or pannage. 1490Plumpton Corr. (Camden) 94 Sir, afor the arbage, dout yt not; for sir Henry Wentforth, nor yet none other, can have it. 1535Act 27 Hen. VIII, c. 6 §5 Tharbage of which parke..is common to the tenauntes, and inhabitantes of the towneshippes nexte adioynynge. 1611Cotgr., Droict d'herbage, herbage; or the libertie some haue to graze their cattell in other men's woods. 1647Haward Crown Rev. 46 The Herbage and Pannage: Fee 11.0.0. 1778Phil. Surv. S. Irel. 307 Herbage would have acted as a premium upon tillage, by being a tax upon pasturage. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) I. 302 The herbage or vesture of land may be granted by copy. In a modern case it was resolved, that a person might hold the prima tonsura of land by copy, while another might have the soil, and every other beneficial enjoyment of it, as freehold.
4. attrib., as herbage crop, herbage plant.
1826Loudon Encycl. Agric. (1831) Gloss. 1244 Herbage plants, forage plants, such as clover and other plants cultivated chiefly for the herb, to be used either green or made into hay. 1875Wilson & Thornton in Encycl. Brit. I. 370/2 Herbage and forage crops..grown expressly for the sake of the cattle food yielded by their leaves and stems.
Hence ˈherbaged a., covered or overgrown with herbage; † ˈherbager, an animal that feeds on herbage; † herˈbagious a. [= F. herbageux (Cotgr.)], abounding in herbage.
1727–46Thomson Summer 475 Or stream full-flowing, that his swelling sides Laves, as he floats along the herbaged brink. 1863Pilgrim. Prairies I. 265 In the more thickly herbaged bottoms. 1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe 25 What an aduantageable creature shee [the cow] is beyonde all the foure footed rablement of herbagers and grasse champers. 1632Lithgow Trav. 506 Now having seene..Herbagious fields. |