| heath | 1. <botany> 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. Also, any species of the genus Erica, of which several are European, and many more are South African, some of great beauty. 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. <zoology>" (Milton) Heath cock, the blackcock. See Heath grouse (below). <botany> Heath grass, a European thrush which frequents heaths; the ring ouzel. Origin: OE. Heth waste land, the plant heath, AS. H; akin to D. & G. Heide, Icel. Heir waste land, Dan. Hede, Sw. Hed, Goth. Haipi field, L. Bucetum a cow pasture; cf. W. Coed a wood, Skr. Kshtra field. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Heath-Edwards grades | A system that describes the pathology of hypertensive pulmonary vascular disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| heathen | Origin: OE. Hethen, AS. Hen, prop. An adj. Fr. H heath, and orig, therefore, one who lives in the country or on the heaths and in the woods (cf. Pagan, fr. Pagus village); akin to OS. Hin, adj, D. Heiden a heathen, G. Heide, OHG. Heidan, Icel. Heiinn, adj, Sw. Heden, Goth. Haipn, fem. See Heath, and cf. Hoiden. 1. An individual of the pagan or unbelieving nations, or those which worship idols and do not acknowledge the true God; a pagan; an idolater. 2. An irreligious person. "If it is no more than a moral discourse, he may preach it and they may hear it, and yet both continue unconverted heathens." (V. Knox) The heathen, as the term is used in the Scriptures, all people except the Jews; now used of all people except Christians, Jews, and Mohammedans. "Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance." (Ps. Ii. 8) Synonym: Pagan, gentile. See Pagan. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| heather | Heath. "Gorse and grass And heather, where his footsteps pass, The brighter seem. <botany> " (Longfellow) Heather bell, one of the pretty subglobose flowers of two European kinds of heather (Erica Tetralix, and E. Cinerea). See: Heath. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea heath | <botany> A low perennial plant (Frankenia laevis) resembling heath, growing along the seashore in Europe. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Heath's operation |
division of the ascending rami of the lower jaw with a saw for ankylosis, performed within the oral cavity; rarely done.
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| Heath's o. |
division of the ascending rami of the lower jaw with a saw for ankylosis, performed within the oral cavity; rarely done.
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| heather b. |
infectious ovine keratoconjunctivitis.
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| heath | (British) a tract of level wasteland |
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| heath | a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae |
| heath | common North American perennial with heathlike foliage and small white flower heads |
| heath | common much-branched North American perennial with heathlike foliage and small starry white flowers |
| heath | heathers |
| heath | female black grouse |
| heath | extinct prairie chicken |
| heath | European herb bearing small tubers used for food and in Scotland to flavor whiskey |
| heath | Old World leafy-stemmed blue-flowered violet |
| heath | a person who does not acknowledge your God |
| heath | not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam |
| heath | not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam |
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