yarb

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“
The Lord sartinly had women in mind when He made the yarb, and a kindly feelin 'fur their infarmities, and, I dare say, they be grateful accordin' to their knowledge. "

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  1. A dialectal form of herb. Her qualifications as white witch were boundless cunning, … [and] some skill in yarbs, as she called her simples. Kingsley, Westward Ho, iv.

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  • "Oh yes, oh yes, dar is aboard here a werry nice, good ge'mman wid a weed, and a ge'mman in a gray coat and white tie, what knows all about me; and a ge'mman wid a big book, too; and a yarb-doctor; and a ge'mman in a yaller west; and a ge'mman wid a brass plate; and a ge'mman in a wiolet robe; and a ge'mman as is a sodjer; and ever so many good, kind, honest ge'mmen more aboard what knows me and will speak for me, God bress 'em; yes, and what knows me as well as dis poor old darkie knows hisself, God bress him! —  The Confidence-Man
  • Two dollars, that's two hundred cents; that's eight hundred farthings; that's two thousand mills; and all for one little box of yarb-medicine. —  The Confidence-Man
  • A sort of yarb-doctors in their way, poets have it that for sore hearts, as for sore lungs, nature is the grand cure. —  The Confidence-Man
  • And who made an idiot of Peter the Wild Boy Then you don't believe in these 'ere yarb-doctors Yarb-doctors? —  The Confidence-Man
  • I remember the lank yarb-doctor I saw once on a hospital-cot in Mobile. —  The Confidence-Man
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