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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.

One who sheathes.

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

Heather; heath. [Obs.] Burton.

t Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called heather, and ling.

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

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

s beads (Paleon.), the fossil joints of crinoid stems. -- Saint Dabeoc's heath (Bot.), a heatherlike plant (Dabæcia polifolia), named from an Irish saint. -- Saint Distaff's Day. See under Distaff. -- Saint Elmo's fire, a luminious, flamelike appearance, sometimes seen in dark, tempestuous nights, at some prominent…

The wheather; the climate. Thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. Shak.

The wheather; -- so called from its cry. [Prov. Eng.]