simpler
nounAU, UK /ˈsɪm.pəl.ə/ · CA, US /ˈsɪm.pəl.ɚ/
1
Archaic One who grows or gathers simples (medicinal herbs).
- 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.1781, Daines Barrington, Miscellanies, Essay VII, On the Linnæan System, page 273
- … 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.1833, William Hogarth, Anecdotes of William Hogarth: written by himself, page 48:
- Synonyms
- simplist