HEATHS
Noun
heaths
plural of heath
Anagrams
• sheath
Source: Wiktionary
HEATH
Heath, n. Etym: [OE. heth waste land, the plant heath, AS. h; akin to
D. & G. heide, Icel. hei waste land, Dan. hede, Sw. hed, Goth. haipi
field, L. bucetum a cow pasture; cf. W. coed a wood, Skr. ksh field.
sq. root20.]
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 (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), 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. (Zoöl.) 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 (Zoöl.), a European thrush which frequents heaths;
the ring ouzel.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition