Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A garden of herbs.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A garden of herbs; a cottage garden.

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  • noun A garden of herbs; a cottage garden.

Etymologies

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See herbarium.

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Examples

  • On my way back to the main building from a morning spent in the herbary, I met Anselm coming from the cloister near the library.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • I went down to the herbary, and picked cockeburr and black lovage to seethe with wine to cleanse my blood of the venom, and borage to make a poultice to soothe the stitches.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • I went down to the herbary, and picked cockeburr and black lovage to seethe with wine to cleanse my blood of the venom, and borage to make a poultice to soothe the stitches.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • I went down to the herbary, and picked cockeburr and black lovage to seethe with wine to cleanse my blood of the venom, and borage to make a poultice to soothe the stitches.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • Some friends took me to the newly opened business as a birthday surprise , more than fifteen years ago, for a tour of the herbary and tea made from herbs gathered as we viewed the lovely garden by the owner, Pam Butcher.

    Nigella « Fairegarden 2008

  • To a section of them, even infinitely minute, what celestial herbary would I not have given as a reliquary.

    Within a Budding Grove 2003

  • They exchanged small, breathless comments on the brightness of the day, assured each other that they were not cold at all, and came through a small archway into the brick-walled herbary.

    Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

  • He wrote not from the dried specimens of earlier collectors -- from the shrivelled and rustling leaves of some old herbary -- from the philosophy and metaphysical analysis of other men's emotions, so much as from the glowing records of his own consciousness and experience, the fruits of grace and plants of righteousness, blooming and fragrant in the watered garden of his own heart.

    The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin

  • The herbary which the traveller brought to the Museum of Natural History, consists of 150 species, the most of them, however, of plants already known.

    The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various

  • Bruges cherries, when plots of marjoram and mint, of thyme and sweet-basil, filled the orchard and herbary of the Hospital of the Poor.

    Emily Brontë 1900

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