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▪ I. herbal, n.|ˈhɜːbəl|
[perh. repr. a med. or early mod.L. *herbāle or *herbālis (sc. liber), f. herbālis adj. (see next); cf. med.L. nominale name-book, manuale hand-book, also diurnal, missal, ordinal, ritual, etc., as names of books.]
1. A book containing the names and descriptions of herbs, or of plants in general, with their properties and virtues; a treatise on plants. Obs. exc. Hist.
1516(title) The Grete Herbal. 1551Turner (title) A new Herball; wherin are conteyned the names of Herbes in Greke, Latin, Englysh, Duch, Frenche, and in the Potecaries and Herbaries Latin. 1578Lyte Dodoens Ded., Hauing newly translated into English this Herball or Historie of Plantes. 1599H. Buttes Dyets drie Dinner F iij, Two kinds of Sage, not named in our Herbals. 1628Ann. Barber-Surg. Lond. (1890) 540 To George Peren, Barber-Surgeon, my yearball knowne by the name of Gerard's yearball. 1799Med. Jrnl. I. 211 Herbarium Mauritianum.—‘The Mauritian Herbal’: by P. R. Willemet..The herbal before us is the fruit of a journey to India. 1862Wright Bacon's Ess. Pref. 23 Consulting the old herbals of Lyte, Gerarde, and Parkinson.
†2. A collection of herbs or plants; esp. a collection of botanical specimens; = herbarium 1.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Vn Herbier, an Herball. 1594Plat Jewell-ho. ii. 33 He may..lay it being drie in his herball. 1665Pepys Diary 5 Nov., Leaves..of several plants, kept dry; which preserve colour, however, and look very finely, better than any herball. 1712Steele Spect. No. 455 ⁋2 To collect in voluminous Herbals all the several Leaves of some one Tree. 1847Emerson Poems (1857) 171 Who saw what ferns and palms were pressed..In the safe herbal of the coal?
†b. (See quot.) nonce-use.
1606Chapman Gentl. Usher Plays 1873 I. 278 These verdant herbals cleeped Broome Do pierce and enter euerie Ladies roome.
▪ II. herbal, a.|ˈhɜːbəl|
[f. L. herbāl-is (in med.L.): cf. obs. F. herbal (opposed to mineral) Godef.]
1. Belonging to, consisting of, or made from herbs.
1612tr. Benvenuto's Passenger (N.), Calling of me to that herball dinner and leane repast. 1766G. Canning Anti-Lucretius iv. 267 All the herbal fragrance of the Field. 1895Westm. Gaz. 4 Sept. 5/1 A specific herbal remedy for the treatment of this disease.
†2. Of the nature of a herb, herbaceous. Obs.
a1682Sir T. Browne Tracts 28 The least of herbal Plants, which arise unto such a proportion.
▸ herbal body wrap n. a type of beauty treatment in which sheets of cloth soaked in a herbal solution are wrapped around the body, variously claimed to cleanse and condition the skin, to aid relaxation, and to effect a (temporary) reduction in body measurements; cf. body wrap n. at body n. Additions.
1985Chicago Tribune 13 Jan. (Travel section) 9/1 After a massage..comes an ointment-laden facial.., then *herbal body wraps ‘to extract the toxins’. 1997Nexus (Boulder, Colorado) Mar.–Apr. 7 (advt.) Herbal body wraps are an ancient cleansing process for removing toxins, shrinking fat cells, releasing stress as well as rejuvenating..the body.
▸ herbal wrap n. = herbal body wrap n. at Additions.
1963Los Angeles Times 8 Sept. e4/2 ‘I can't go for the hike, Doc. Banged my toe in water polo,’ begged off the city father heading for the *herbal wrap pavilion. 1980Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 2 July Rancho La Puerta offers nine gyms, three swimming pools.., as well as facials, massages and herbal wraps. 1999N.Y. Mag. 20 Sept. 9 a/2 (advt.) Treat yourself to: hydrotherapy in a tub that uses 72 underwater jets, a deep-tissue sports massage, an herbal wrap, or aromatherapy facial.
▸ herbally adv.
1930Life 11 Apr. 38/1 (advt.) Tangy tart, *herbally agreeable—the sunny Riviera's cocktail taste. 2002T. R. Van Devender & D. Yetman Mayo Ethnobotany vii. 232 It [sc. bugambilia] has become ubiquitously cultivated in the region and widely used herbally. |