Heath
[hiːθ] or [hiθ]
Definition
(noun.) a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation.
(noun.) a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers.
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Definition
(n.) A low shrub (Erica, / 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Heather.
Typist: Montague
Definition
n. a barren open country: any shrub of genus Erica or its congener Calluna of the heath family (Ericace) a hardy evergreen under-shrub.—ns. Heath′-bell same as Heather-bell; Heath′-cock a large bird which frequents heaths: the black grouse:—fem. Heath′-hen; Heath′-poult the heath-bird esp. the female or young.—adj. Heath′y abounding with heath.
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Examples
- To anybody acquainted with the inhabitants of Egdon Heath the image would have suggested Eustacia Yeobright. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I passed the night under the shelter of a rock, strewing some heath under me, and slept pretty well. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The masses of furze and heath to the right and left were dark as ever; a mere half-moon was powerless to silver such sable features as theirs. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Yet a few yards to Yeobright's left, on the open heath, how ineffectively gnashed the storm! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I touched the heath: it was dry, and yet warm with the heat of the summer day. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Of course not; no, it is that the heath-folk have come to sing to us a welcome. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- No other boy in the heath has had such a bonfire as yours. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- In the heath's barrenness to the farmer lay its fertility to the historian. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- This conversation had passed in a hollow of the heath near the old Roman road, a place much frequented by Thomasin. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I know the way home, and the heath has no terror for me. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The above-mentioned highway traversed the lower levels of the heath, from one horizon to another. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- They were small, hardy animals, of a breed between Galloway and Exmoor, and were known as heath-croppers here. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The place became full of a watchful intentness now; for when other things sank blooding to sleep the heath appeared slowly to awake and listen. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The murdered woman,--more a match for the man, certainly, in point of years--was found dead in a barn near Hounslow Heath. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The Quiet Woman Inn was visible on the low margin of the heath in one direction, and afar on the other hand rose Mistover Knap. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I have dwelt many months in the heaths of England, and among the deserts of Scotland. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Many solitary figures he perceives creeping through the streets; many solitary figures out on heaths, and roads, and lying under haystacks. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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