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f the domestic fowl; also, the female of grouse, pheasants, or any kind of birds; as, the heath hen; the gray hen.

A piece of woodland; especially, a woody hill. "Every holt and heath." Chaucer. She sent her voice though all the holt Before her, and the park. Tennyson.

To cover with plates; to sheathe; as, to implate a ship with iron.

who does not believe in the divine origin and authority of Christianity; a Mohammedan; a heathen; a freethinker.

Received into some other thing or part, as a sword into a sheath; invaginated.

To insert as in a sheath; to pr

Sheathed.

A sheath which surrounds the base of the lasso cells in the Siphonophora.

A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

h rounded ends for knitting yarn or threads into a fabric, as in stockings. -- Knitting sheath, a sheath to receive the end of a needle in knitting.

Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.

in sacrifice, in honor of some deity; also, the wine or liquid thus poured out. Dryden. A heathen sacrifice or libation to the earth. Bacon.

en she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel. Gen. xxiv. 64. Slowly rode across a withered heath, And lighted at a ruined inn. Tennyson.

The thin and scarious projection from the upper end of the sheath of leaf of grass.

Heather (Calluna vulgaris). Ling honey, a sort of wild honey, made from the flowers of the heather. Holland.

ion; as, a low comparison. In comparison of these divine writers, the noblest wits of the heathen world are low and dull. Felton.

geographical miles. -- Marine metal, an alloy of lead, antimony, and mercury, made for sheathing ships. Mc Elrath. -- Marine soap, cocoanut oil soap; -- so called because, being quite soluble in salt water, it is much used on shipboard. -- Marine store, a store where old canvas, ropes, etc., are bought and sold; a…

coagent; instrument. Their virtuous conversation was a mean to work the conversion of the heathen to Christ. Hooker. You may be able, by this mean, to review your own scientific acquirements. Coleridge. Philosophical doubt is not an end, but a mean. Sir W. Hamilton.

ransverse section of exogenous wood, which pass from the pith to the bark. -- Medullary sheath (Anat.), the layer of white semifluid substance (myelin), between the primitive sheath and axis cylinder of a medullated nerve fiber.

Furnished with a medulla or marrow, or with a medullary sheath; as, a medullated nerve fiber.