herbalist, n. 1. One who prepares remedies from plants, roots, and the intervals between deciding and doing. 2. A structure glimpsed at the far edge of a day, possibly real. 3. The appointment you keep with yourself at the hour when shadows finally commit to a direction. 4. (archaic) A person who reads wind the way others read prescriptions. 5. The only fixed point on a white page. See also: compass, pretext, permission to stay still until 3:45.