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A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage. Their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. Milton Heath cock (Zoöl.), the blackcock. See Heath grouse (below). -- Heath grass (Bot.), a kind of perennial grass, of the genus Triodia (T. decumbens)…

Of or pertaining to a festival; cheerful; joyous; gay. Shak.

Like a home; comfortable; cheerful; cozy; friendly.

Like a home or a home circle. Quiet, cheerful, homish hospital life. E. E. Hale.

indness and generosity to guests and strangers; as, hospitable rites. To where you taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. Goldsmith.

A cheer; a shout of joy, etc. Hurrah's nest, state of utmost confusion. [Colloq. U.S.] A perfect hurrah's nest in our kitchen. Mrs. Stowe.

A shout of huzza; a cheer; a hurrah. They made a great huzza or shout. Evelyn.

as pure From other guilt as that, Heaven did not hold One more immaculate. Denham. Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain. Shak. Immaculate conception (R. C. Ch.), the doctrine that the Virgin Mary was conceived without original sin. -- Im*mac"u*late*ly, adv. -- Im*mac"u*late*ness, n.

To make drunk; to intoxicate. The cups That cheer but not inebriate. Cowper.

Having no mirth; not festive or merry; dull; cheerless; gloomy; forlorn. [R.]

Want of festivity, cheerfulness, or mirth; dullness; cheerlessness. [R.]

mold. [Obs.] And from the fire he took up his matter And in the ingot put it with merry cheer. Chaucer.

Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild. "Inhospitable wastes." Blair. -- In*hos"pi*ta*ble*mess, n. -- In*hos"pi*ta*bly, adv.

Animating; cheering; moving; exhilarating; as, an inspiring or scene.

Merry; cheerful; gay; airy; lively; sportive. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. Shak. Rural sports and jocund strains. Prior. -- Joc"und*ly, adv. -- Joc"und*ness, n.

Fig.: To be or appear gay, cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport. Then laughs the childish year, with flowerets crowned. Dryden. In Folly's cup still laughs the bubble Joy. Pope. To laugh at, to make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride. No wit to flatter left…

lutions. -- Light of foot. (a) Having a light step. (b) Fleet. -- Light of heart, gay, cheerful. -- Light oil (Chem.), the oily product, lighter than water, forming the chief part of the first distillate of coal tar, and consisting largely of benzene and toluene. -- Light sails (Naut.), all the sails above the tops…

Free from grief or anxiety; gay; cheerful; merry. -- Light"-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Light"-heart"ed*ness, n.

To cheer; to exhilarate. Lighens my humor with his merry jests. Shak.

Without deep impression. The soft ideas of the cheerful note, Lightly received, were easily forgot. Prior.