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The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.

See Growthead.

A lazy person; a blockhead. [Obs.] Tusser.

The art or business of a gunsmith.

Pertaining to an abnormal condition of the flower, in which the stamens are converted into pistils. A. Brown.

Same as Hematotherma.

Warm-blooded; homoiothermal.

A brother by one parent, but not by both.

Not sensible to the bit; not easily governed; as, a hard- mouthed horse.

An individual of the pagan or unbelieving nations, or those which worship idols and do not acknowledge the true God; a pagan; an idolater.

That part of the world where heathenism prevails; the heathen nations, considered collectively.

Heathendom. [Obs.] Chaucer. Sir W. Scott.

Of or pertaining to the heathen; resembling or characteristic of heathens. "Worse than heathenish crimes." Milton.

In a heathenish manner.

The state or quality of being heathenish. "The . . . heathenishness and profaneness of most playbooks." Prynne.

The religious system or rites of a heathen nation; idolatry; paganism.

To render heathen or heathenish. Firmin.

State of being heathen or like the heathen.

The state, quality, or character of the heathen. Your heathenry and your laziness. C. Kingsley.

Heath. [Scot.] Gorse and grass And heather, where his footsteps pass, The brighter seem. Longfellow. Heather bell (Bot.), one of the pretty subglobose flowers of two European kinds of heather (Erica Tetralix, and E. cinerea).