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se (Tetrao tetrix, Linn.); - - so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See Heath grouse.

Blighted; withered. Upon this blasted heath. Shak.

Sheathing a vessel with planking over felt.

ates. It was named from its inventor, Colonel James Bowie. Also, by extension, any large sheath knife.

The object of a contemptuous saying. Thou makest us a byword among the heathen. Ps. xliv. 14

s capsule, a membranous envelope, entering the liver along with the portal vessels and insheathing the latter in their course through the organ. -- Suprarenal capsule, an organ of unknown function, above or in front of each kidney.

A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cover) for a book.

A knife carried in a sheath or case. Addison.

The anterior end of the notochord and its bony sheath in the base of cartilaginous crania.

The soft naked sheath at the base of the beak of birds of prey, parrots, and some other birds. See Beak.

poor and the suffering, to benevolent institutions, or to worthy causes; generosity. The heathen poet, in commending the charity of Dido to the Trojans, spake like a Christian. Dryden.

stianity prevails, or which is governed under Christian institutions, in distinction from heathen or Mohammedan lands. The Arian doctrine which then divided Christendom. Milton A wide and still widening Christendom. Coleridge.

A Jewish or heathen temple. [Obs.] Acts xix. 37.

Having wings covered with a case or sheath; belonging to the Coleoptera.

A sheath in the embryo of grasses, inclosing the caulicle. Gray.

position metal, an alloy resembling brass, which is sometimes used instead of copper for sheathing vessels; -- also called Muntz metal and yellow metal. -- Composition of proportion (Math.), an arrangement of four proportionals so that the sum of the arrangement of four proportionals so that the sum of the third and f…

A curved sheath or breasting for a revolving cylinder or roll.

The recovery of heath and strength after disease; the state of a body renewing its vigor after sickness or weakness; the time between the subsidence of a disease and complete restoration to health.

To cover or coat with copper; to sheathe with sheets of copper; as, to copper a ship.

Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship.