English Dictionary: herb of grace | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Harpy \Har"py\, n.; pl. {Harpies}. [F. harpie, L. harpyia, Gr. [?], from the root of [?] to snatch, to seize. Gf. {Rapacious}.] 1. (Gr. Myth.) A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three. Both table and provisions vanished guite. With sound of harpies' wings and talons heard. --Milton. 2. One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner. The harpies about all pocket the pool. --Goldsmith. 3. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier ({Circus [91]ruginosus}). (b) A large and powerful, double-crested, short-winged American eagle ({Thrasa[89]tus harpyia}). It ranges from Texas to Brazil. {Harpy bat} (Zo[94]l.) (a) An East Indian fruit bat of the genus {Harpyia} (esp. {H. cerphalotes}), having prominent, tubular nostrils. (b) A small, insectivorous Indian bat ({Harpiocephalus harpia}). {Harpy fly} (Zo[94]l.), the house fly. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Harpy \Har"py\, n.; pl. {Harpies}. [F. harpie, L. harpyia, Gr. [?], from the root of [?] to snatch, to seize. Gf. {Rapacious}.] 1. (Gr. Myth.) A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three. Both table and provisions vanished guite. With sound of harpies' wings and talons heard. --Milton. 2. One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner. The harpies about all pocket the pool. --Goldsmith. 3. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier ({Circus [91]ruginosus}). (b) A large and powerful, double-crested, short-winged American eagle ({Thrasa[89]tus harpyia}). It ranges from Texas to Brazil. {Harpy bat} (Zo[94]l.) (a) An East Indian fruit bat of the genus {Harpyia} (esp. {H. cerphalotes}), having prominent, tubular nostrils. (b) A small, insectivorous Indian bat ({Harpiocephalus harpia}). {Harpy fly} (Zo[94]l.), the house fly. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Puss \Puss\ (p[usdot]s), n. [Cf. D. poes, Ir. & Gael. pus.] 1. A cat; -- a fondling appellation. 2. A hare; -- so called by sportsmen. {Puss in the corner}, a game in which all the players but one occupy corners of a room, or certain goals in the open air, and exchange places, the one without a corner endeavoring to get a corner while it is vacant, leaving some other without one. {Puss moth} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of stout bombycid moths belonging to {Cerura}, {Harpyia}, and allied genera, esp. {Harpyia vinuli}, of Europe. The larv[91] are humpbacked, and have two caudal appendages. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Harvey process \Har"vey proc"ess\ (Metal.) A process of hardening the face of steel, as armor plates, invented by Hayward A. Harvey of New Jersey, consisting in the additional carburizing of the face of a piece of low carbon steel by subjecting it to the action of carbon under long-continued pressure at a very high heat, and then to a violent chilling, as by a spray of cold water. This process gives an armor plate a thick surface of extreme hardness supported by material gradually decreasing in hardness to the unaltered soft steel at the back. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Herb \Herb\ (?; 277), n. [OE. herbe, erbe, OF. herbe, erbe, F. herbe, L. herba; perh. akin to Gr. forbh` food, pasture, fe`rbein to feed.] 1. A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering. Note: Annual herbs live but one season; biennial herbs flower the second season, and then die; perennial herbs produce new stems year after year. 2. Grass; herbage. And flocks Grazing the tender herb. --Milton. {Herb bennet}. (Bot.) See {Bennet}. {Herb Christopher} (Bot.), an herb ({Act[91]a spicata}), whose root is used in nervous diseases; the baneberry. The name is occasionally given to other plants, as the royal fern, the wood betony, etc. {Herb Gerard} (Bot.), the goutweed; -- so called in honor of St. Gerard, who used to be invoked against the gout. --Dr. Prior. {Herb grace}, [or] {Herb of grace}. (Bot.) See {Rue}. {Herb Margaret} (Bot.), the daisy. See {Marguerite}. {Herb Paris} (Bot.), an Old World plant related to the trillium ({Paris quadrifolia}), commonly reputed poisonous. {Herb Robert} (Bot.), a species of {Geranium} ({G. Robertianum}.) | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Herbiferous \Her*bif"er*ous\, a. [Herb + -ferous: cf. F. herbif[82]re.] Bearing herbs or vegetation. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Herbivore \Her"bi*vore\, n. [Cf. F. herbivore.] (Zo[94]l.) One of the Herbivora. --P. H. Gosse. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Herbivorous \Her*biv"o*rous\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Eating plants; of or pertaining to the Herbivora. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ribbonwood \Rib"bon*wood`\, n. (Bot.) A malvaceous tree ({Hoheria populnea}) of New Zealand, the bark of which is used for cordage. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Harveyville, KS (city, FIPS 30575) Location: 38.78916 N, 95.96213 W Population (1990): 267 (110 housing units) Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 66431 |