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, dignity, condition, or value; as, the advantages which the Christian world has over the heathen. Swift.

One who worships false goods; an idolater; a heathen; one who is neither a Christian, a Mohammedan, nor a Jew. Neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man. Shak.

Of or pertaining to pagans or paganism; heathenish; paganish. [R.] "The paganic fables of the goods." Cudworth. -- Pa*gan"ic*al*ly, adv. [R.]

Of or pertaining to pagans; heathenish. "The old paganish idolatry." Sharp

dols or false gods, or the system of religious opinions and worship maintained by pagans; heathenism.

To render pagan or heathenish; to convert to paganism. Hallywell.

Peculiar quality; individual characteristic; peculiarity. "An old heathen altar with this particularity." Addison.

The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a muscle, and sends partitions inwards between the bundles of muscular fibers.

The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a bundle of nerve fibers. See Epineurium, and Neurilemma.

o introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen.

A young chicken, partridge, grouse, or the like. King. Chapman. Starling the heath poults or black game. R. Jefferise.

a meridian. -- Primitive rocks (Geol.), primary rocks. See under Primary. -- Primitive sheath. (Anat.) See Neurilemma. -- Primitive streak or trace (Anat.), an opaque and thickened band where the mesoblast first appears in the vertebrate blastoderm.

he under parts, the sides of the head and throat, and the buttocks, are white. The horny sheath of the horns is shed annually. Called also cabrée, cabut, prongbuck, and pronghorned antelope.

A case or sheath for arrows to be carried on the person. Reside him hung his bow And quiver, with three-bolted thunder stored. Milton.

Sheathed, as in a quiver. "Whose quills stand quivered at his ear." Pope.

tly driven or agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or winds. Why do the heathen rage Ps. ii. 1. The madding wheels Of brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise. Milton.

cly, as a story; as, in the common phrase, it is reported. Shak. It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel. Neh. vi. 6.

The sheath of the upper mandible of a bird.

heathy land; land full of heather; moorish or watery land. [prov. Eng.]

g. -- Runic wand, a willow wand bearing runes, formerly thought to have been used by the heathen tribes of Northern Europe in magical ceremonies.