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herby, a.|ˈhɜːbɪ|
[f. herb n. + -y.]
1. Full of or abounding in herbs; grassy.
1552Huloet, Herby, or full of herbs, or hauynge herbes, herbidus. 1611Cotgr., Herbageux, grassie, hearbie. c1611Chapman Iliad v. 39 An herby seat on broad Scamander's shore. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 729 Columbus..After many dayes..incountred with that Herbie Sea. 1889C. Edwardes Sardinia 210 The herby slope.
2. Of the nature of a herb, herbaceous; pertaining to or characteristic of herbs.
1552Huloet, Herby, or pertaynynge to herbes, herbarius. 1578Lyte Dodoens iii. xxxvi. 367 The flowers..of a white greene or herby colour. 1579Langham Gard. Health (1633) 189 Maudlinwort, or the herby part of the wilde Dasy. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 73/2 The Bean Caper is an herby, not a wooddy stalk. 1784Twamley Dairying 114 The stem is herbaceous or of a herby nature. 1884T. Hardy Wessex Tales, Interlopers at Knap (1889) 171 The herby breath of cows. |