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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HEATH, n.
1. A plant of the genus Erica, of many species. It is a shrub which is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. Its leaves are small and continue green all the year. It is called also ling.
2. A place overgrown with heath.
3. A place overgrown with shrubs of any kind.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers
2: a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation [syn: heath, heathland]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English heth, from Old English h?th; akin to Old High German heida heather, Old Welsh coit forest Date: before 12th century 1. a. a tract of wasteland b. an extensive area of rather level open uncultivated land usually with poor coarse soil, inferior drainage, and a surface rich in peat or peaty humus 2. a. any of a family (Ericaceae, the heath family) of shrubby dicotyledonous and often evergreen plants that thrive on open barren usually acid and ill-drained soil; especially an evergreen subshrub of either of two genera (Erica and Calluna) with whorls of needlelike leaves and clusters of small flowers b. any of various plants that resemble true heaths • heathless adjective • heathlike adjective • heathy adjective

Merriam Webster's

biographical name Edward 1916- British prime minister (1970-74)

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 an area of flattish uncultivated land with low shrubs. 2 a plant growing on a heath, esp. of the genus Erica or Calluna (e.g. heather). Derivatives: heathless adj. heathlike adj. heathy adj. Etymology: OE hæth f. Gmc

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Heath Heath, n. [OE. heth waste land, the plant heath, AS. h??; akin to D. & G. heide, Icel. hei?r waste land, Dan. hede, Sw. hed, Goth. haipi field, L. bucetum a cow pasture; cf. W. coed a wood, Skr. ksh?tra field. [root]20.] 1. (Bot.) (a) A low shrub (Erica, or Calluna, vulgaris), with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called heather, and ling. (b) Also, any species of the genus Erica, of which several are European, and many more are South African, some of great beauty. See Illust. of Heather. 2. A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage. Their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. --Milton Heath cock (Zo["o]l.), the blackcock. See Heath grouse (below). Heath grass (Bot.), a kind of perennial grass, of the genus Triodia (T. decumbens), growing on dry heaths. Heath grouse, or Heath game (Zo["o]l.), a European grouse (Tetrao tetrix), which inhabits heats; -- called also black game, black grouse, heath poult, heath fowl, moor fowl. The male is called, heath cock, and blackcock; the female, heath hen, and gray hen. Heath hen. (Zo["o]l.) See Heath grouse (above). Heath pea (bot.), a species of bitter vetch (Lathyris macrorhizus), the tubers of which are eaten, and in Scotland are used to flavor whisky. Heath throstle (Zo["o]l.), a European thrush which frequents heaths; the ring ouzel.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(heaths) A heath is an area of open land covered with rough grass or heather and with very few trees or bushes. (BRIT) N-COUNT

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Heb. 'arar, (Jer. 17:6; 48:6), a species of juniper called by the Arabs by the same name ('arar), the Juniperus sabina or savin. "Its gloomy, stunted appearance, with its scale-like leaves pressed close to its gnarled stem, and cropped close by the wild goats, as it clings to the rocks about Petra, gives great force to the contrast suggested by the prophet, between him that trusteth in man, naked and destitute, and the man that trusteth in the Lord, flourishing as a tree planted by the waters" (Tristram, Natural History of the Bible).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

heth.

See TAMARISK.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Heather, ling (Calluna vulgaris). 2. Field covered with heather, heathery field. 3. Shrubby field or plain.

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