Word Meanings - HEATH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

D. & G. heide, Icel. hei waste land, Dan. hede, Sw. hed, Goth. haipi field, L. bucetum a cow pasture; cf. W. coed a wood, Skr. ksh field. A low shrub , with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in

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D. & G. heide, Icel. hei waste land, Dan. hede, Sw. hed, Goth. haipi field, L. bucetum a cow pasture; cf. W. coed a wood, Skr. ksh field. A low shrub , with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called heather, and ling. Also, any species of the genus Erica, of which several are European, and many more are South African, some of great beauty. See Illust. of Heather. 2. 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 , the blackcock. See Heath grouse . -- Heath grass , a kind of perennial grass, of the genus Triodia , growing on dry heaths. -- Heath grouse, or Heath game , a European grouse (Tetrao tetrix), which inhabits heats; -- called also black game, black grouse, heath poult, heath fowl, moor fowl. The male is called, heath cock, and blackcock; the female, heath hen, and gray hen. -- Heath hen. See Heath grouse . -- Heath pea , a species of bitter vetch (Lathyris macrorhizus), the tubers of which are eaten, and in Scotland are used to flavor whisky. -- Heath throstle , a European thrush which frequents heaths; the ring ouzel.

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• FIELD
  The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules , while the fess is argent . 6. An unresticted or favorable opportunity
• FIELDING
  The act of playing as a fielder.
• FIELDY
  Open, like a field. Wyclif.
• HANDSOMELY
  Carefully; in shipshape style. (more info) 1. In a handsome manner.
• SHRUBBY
  1. Full of shrubs. 2. Of the nature of a shrub; resembling a shrub. "Shrubby browse." J. Philips.
• FIELDPIECE
  A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.
• SHRUBLESS
  having no shrubs. Byron.
• MINUTELY
  In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely.
• HANDSOMENESS
  The quality of being handsome. Handsomeness is the mere animal excellence, beauty the mere imaginative. Hare.
• FIELDED
  Engaged in the field; encamped. To help fielded friends. Shak.
• SHRUBBINESS
  Quality of being shrubby.
• HANDSOME
  -some. It at first meant, dexterous; cf. D. handzaam dexterous, 1. Dexterous; skillful; handy; ready; convenient; -- applied to things as persons. That they be both easy to be carried and handsome to be moved and turned about. Robynson . For
• MINUTE
  1. The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.) Four minutes, that is to say, minutes of an hour. Chaucer. 2. The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds ; as,
• MINUTEMAN
  A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment's notice; -- a term used in the American Revolution.
• EVERGREEN
  Remaining unwithered through the winter, or retaining unwithered leaves until the leaves of the next year are expanded, as pines cedars, hemlocks, and the like.
• FIELDEN
  Consisting of fields. The fielden country also and plains. Holland.
• SHRUB
  A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.
• SHRUBBERY
  1. A collection of shrubs. 2. A place where shrubs are planted. Macaulay.
• MINUTE-JACK
  1. A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house. 2. A timeserver; an inconstant person. Shak.
• FIELDFARE
  a small thrush which breeds in northern Europe and winters in Great Britain. The head, nape, and lower part of the back are ash-colored; the upper part of the back and wing coverts, chestnut; -- called also fellfare.
• HOMEFIELD
  Afield adjacent to its owner's home. Hawthorne.
• INFIELD
  To inclose, as a field.
• COMMINUTE
  To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture.
• PARKLEAVES
  A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.
• UNSHRUBBED
  Being without shrubs.
• HAYFIELD
  A field where grass for hay has been cut; a meadow. Cowper.
• UNHANDSOME
  1. Not handsome; not beautiful; ungraceful; not comely or pleasing; plain; homely. Were she other than she is, she were unhandsome. Shak. I can not admit that there is anything unhandsome or irregular . . . in the globe. Woodward. 2. Wanting noble
• CORNFIELD
  A field where corn is or has been growing; -- in England, a field of wheat, rye, barley, or oats; in America, a field of Indian corn.
• AMPERE HOUR; AMPERE MINUTE; AMPERE SECOND
  The quantity of electricity delivered in one hour by a current whose average strength is one ampère. It is used as a unit of quantity, and is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms Ampère minute and Ampère second are sometimes similarly used.