Meaning of Simpler | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname from German.
2. One who grows or gathers simples (medicinal herbs).
   archaic

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Examples

“One of the great pleasures in botany is, to produce a rather uncommon plant to those who know it to be curious; but the English botanist will not have much satisfaction in shewing it to a simpler, who is not acquainted with it under the name given by Gerard or Ray.”

“… may with no great impropriety be termed going a simpling; but with this special difference, that your field simpler never picks up a nettle for a marsh-mallow; a mistake which your tour simpler is very liable to.”

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