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Clad or crowned with heath.

oral 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.…

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).

Heathy; abounding in heather; of the nature of heath.

Full of heath; abounding with heath; as, heathy land; heathy hills. Sir W. Scott.

To infuse by breathing; to inspire. Coleridge.

Breathing or exhaling incense. "Incense-breathing morn." Gray.

To insert as in a sheath; to sheathe. Hughes.

To weave into a wreath; to intertwine. [R.] Lovelace.

To surround or encompass as with a wreath. [Written also enwreathe.] Resplendent locks, inwreathed with beams. Milton.

To beat, as with a thong of leather. [Obs. or Colloq.] G. Eliot.