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a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers
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(Bot) A low shrub (Erica vulgarisorCalluna vulgaris), 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. -
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(Bot) 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.
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Open, uncultivated land; a desert tract of land; specifically, in Great Britain, an uncultivated tract of heathy or shrubby land, usually of a desolate character. -
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A plant of the genus Erica, or, by extension, of the genus Calluna; any plant of the family Ericaceæ, called by Lindley heathworts. The species of Erica are widely distributed throughout Europe and the Mediterranean region, but are most abundant in South Africa, where they cover thousands of acres and constitute one of the principal forms of vegetation. The two best-known European species are E. cinerea, Scotch heather or fine-leafed heath, and E. Tetralix, the cross-leafed heath. (See cut under Ericaceæ.) The nearly allied genus Calluna, having only a single species, C. vulgaris, is more commonly called heather or ling. (See cut under Calluna.) In Great Britain heath or heather covers large tracts of waste land, and is used to thatch houses and to make brooms, and in some places for making beds. Sheep, goats, and cattle feed upon it, and bees extract a finely flavored honey from the flowers. The young shoots and flowers are said to have been formerly employed in the manufacture of beer. The species of southern Europe, Erica arborea, attains considerable size, and is called the tree-heath. From the wood of this species, and especially from that of another species of southern Europe, E. Mediterranea, are made most of the so-called brier-wood pipes, or brier tobacco-pipes. The moor-heaths belong to a section of the genus Erica called Gypsocallis by Don, and have somewhat different flowers and a different aspect. They are very beautiful plants, and inhabit moors and calcareous districts. The Cantabrian, Irish, or Saint Dabeoc's heath is a plant of a different genus of the heath family, Dabœcia polifolia. It is chiefly a native of Ireland, but is also found in western France, northern Spain, and the Azores. It is a dwarf, bushy, evergreen shrub, grows in dense tufts, and has racemes of purple flowers. It is also called Irish-whorts. The sea-heath, Frankenia lœois, is a low, heathlike maritime shrub inhabiting the European coasts. See Frankenia. -
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One of several small butterflies of different genera. The large heath is Erinephile tithonus; the small, Cænonympha pamphilus. -
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In Tasmania, the popular name for several species of the genus Epacris, especially E. impressa, a beautiful slender shrub bearing white or red axillary flowers. See Epacris.
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hēth a barren open country: any shrub of genus Erica, or its congener Calluna, of the heath family (Ericaceæ), a hardy evergreen under-shrub
Heath Robinson - (UK) If a machine or system is described as Heath Robinson, it is very complicated, but not practical or effective, named after a cartoonist who drew very complicated machines that performed simple tasks.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. heth, waste land, the plant heath, AS. hǣð,; akin to D. & G. heide, Icel. heiðr, waste land, Dan. hede, Sw. hed, Goth. haiþi, field, L. bucetum, a cow pasture; cf. W. coed, a wood, Skr. kshētra, field. √20
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary A.S. hǽð; Ger. heide, Goth. haithi, a waste.
Allen & Heath demos its new iLive-T, a compact live sound reinforcement digital console at the recent 2009 Winter NAMM show. svconline.com
The Guys Are Convinced Heath Ledger's Joker Was Inspired By Tom Waits. banana1015.com
To determine whether or not Heath Ledger based his Oscar-winning performance as the Joker on it. banana1015.com
And as a massive and innovative revitalization changes the face of Canada's largest and oldest social housing complex, one of the lessons learned is about the connection between culture and civic heath, creative expression and urbanity. thestar.com
Heath Bell became the latest player jettisoned by the Miami Marlins when he was dealt Saturday to the Arizona Diamondbacks, who also acquired infielder Cliff Pennington from the Oakland Athletics for outfielder Chris Young. ashingtontimes.com
Bill Owens and his Democratic challenger Rollie Heath will meet in Grand Junction for their first formal debate . kktv.com
Heath Brothers, Jingle Bell Jazz, "Our Little Town". gte.org
Eleanor ellsworth of st James by-the-sea church, and historical society executive Director heath Fox at the presentation of the original deeds to the church. lajollalight.com
Keeley Heath, 30, received the award from Super Lawyers magazine. thedailynews.cc
Steelers tight end Heath Miller (83) catches a nine-yard touchdown pass the Bengals' Leon Hall (29) tries to defend during the first half. heraldnet.com
Water service will be off for most of today in an area along Mechem Drive and Heath Street because of repairs on a water leak. ruidosonews.com
Benched DeWitt QB Jacob Heath's wisdom makes him No. freep.com
Front row, left to right, Griffin Long, Heath Parker and Miller Hayes. thepostsearchlight.com
Vote For Heath Frisby In The ESPY Awards. snowest.com
Heath Frisby has advanced past the first round in ESPN's ESPY awards. snowest.com
D J Heath, T Kobayashi, Essential tangle decomposition from thin position of a link, Pacific J.
A search method for thin positions of links
Heath-Brown, The twelfth power moment of the Riemann-function, Quart. J.
Bounds for $GL(3)\times GL(2)$ $L$-functions and GL(3) $L$-functions
This property is termed locally thin by D J Heath and T Kobayashi who investigate this property in .
Thin position for knots and 3-manifolds: a unified approach
This fact is used to advantage by D Heath and T Kobayashi in to produce a canonical tangle decomposition of a knot and in to produce a method to search for thin presentations of a knot. M Tomova has made strides in understanding this phenomenon, see .
Thin position for knots and 3-manifolds: a unified approach
In , D Heath and T Kobayashi also exhibit a knot containing a meridional incompressible surface that is not realized as a thin level in a thin presentation of the knot.
Thin position for knots and 3-manifolds: a unified approach
The haze over the heath shimmered with an apricot glow. "Mummery" by
East Heath Road skirts the edge of the Heath. "Hampstead and Marylebone" by
Barnard's Heath, St. Albans, 229. "England, Picturesque and Descriptive" by
And Alice Heath, who entered with Mrs. Crego, shared this chill reception. "Money Magic" by
The famous Heath of Hampstead and Richmond Park should be included, but they are treated of elsewhere. "Dickens' London" by
The purple of heath-bloom, faded but not withered, tinged the hills. "Shirley" by
The shoulder of the hill waved white with Mediterranean heath. "The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition" by
One Saturday afternoon Chippy, the leader of the wharf-rats of Skinner's Hole, was crossing the heath on his way home. "The Wolf Patrol" by
He greeted the open expanse of heath with joyful eyes. "'Jena' or 'Sedan'?" by
But, every year, the heath came nearer. "The Old Willow Tree and Other Stories" by
And wither'd heaths I rove;
Where tree, nor spire, nor cot, appears,
I pass to meet my love.
From here shall carry still
Something of moor and bracken—bed,
Something of heath and hill.
One short hour the heath upon,
When he was nowhere to be seen;
"Where," said they, "is William gone?"
Which rose, when in exile afar,
On the brow of a lonely hill kneeling,
I saw the brown heath growing there?
But in the forest stirred no leaf:
There shadows lay be night or day,
And dark things silent crept beneath.
The sheltering hills; and some, whose eyes
Were gladdened by the southern skies,
High up amid the blooming heath.