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er to dance a corant well, than a jig. Sir W. temple. Dancing a coranto with him upon the heath. Macaulay.

A cover or sheath; as, a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame); a cot for a sore finger.

A heathlike plant of the genus Empetrum, and its fruit, a black, scarcely edible berry; -- also called crakeberry.

A god or goddess; a heathen god. To worship calves, the deities Of Egypt. Milton. The Deity, God, the Supreme Being. This great poet and philosopher [Simonides], the more he contemplated the nature of the Deity, found that he waded but the more out of his depth. Addison.

The belief in demons or false gods. The established theology of the heathen world . . . rested upon the basis of demonism. Farmer.

e, were scattered through the Old World, and afterwards to Jewish Christians living among heathen. Cf. James i.1.

To pull from a sheath, as a sword. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. Ex. xv. 9.

They have a large electrical organ and are able to give powerful shocks; -- called also sheathfish. -- Electric clock. See under Clock, and see Electro-chronograph. -- Electric current, a current or stream of electricity traversing a closed circuit formed of conducting substances, or passing by means of conductors f…

The theory that the heathen divinities originated in the personification of elemental powers.

To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset. A knight her met in mighty arms embossed. Spenser.

ilt market town. Macaulay. It is pride . . . which fills our streets, our emporiums, our theathers. Knox.

Wrapped up within a leaf or sheath.

Having the radicle of the embryo sheathed by the cotyledon, through which the embryo bursts in germination, as in many monocotyledonous plants.

lia, New Zealand, etc., having pretty white, red, or purple blossoms, and much resembling heaths.

The connective tissue framework and sheath of a nerve which bind together the nerve bundles, each of which has its own special sheath, or perineurium.

A genus of shrubby plants, including the heaths, many of them producing beautiful flowers.

Belonging to the Heath family, or resembling plants of that family; consisting of heats.

A heathen; a pagan. [Obs.] No better reported than impure ethnic and lay dogs. Milton.

Pertaining to the gentiles, or nations not converted to Christianity; heathen; pagan; -- opposed to Jewish and Christian.

Heathenism; paganism; idolatry. [Obs.] "Taint of ethnicism." B. Jonson.