dial. form of HERB.
1845. S. Judd, Margaret, I. v. 27. ‘Stultiloquent yarb-monger!’ he [the schoolmaster] broke out.
1847. Thoreau, Lett., in Atlantic Monthly (1892), June, 736. I hope he got ‘yarhs’ enough to satisfy him.
1855. Kingsley, Westw. Ho!, iv. Some skill in ‘yarbs,’ as she called her simples.
