Word Meanings - HEATHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Full of heath; abounding with heath; as, heathy land; heathy hills. Sir W. Scott.

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• HILLSIDE
  The side or declivity of a hill.
• HEATHER
  Heath. Gorse and grass And heather, where his footsteps pass, The brighter seem. Longfellow. Heather bell , one of the pretty subglobose flowers of two European kinds of heather . (more info) Etym:
• HEATHENISHNESS
  The state or quality of being heathenish. "The . . . heathenishness and profaneness of most playbooks." Prynne.
• HEATHENRY
  1. The state, quality, or character of the heathen. Your heathenry and your laziness. C. Kingsley. 2. Heathendom; heathen nations.
• HEATHY
  Full of heath; abounding with heath; as, heathy land; heathy hills. Sir W. Scott.
• HEATHENISM
  1. The religious system or rites of a heathen nation; idolatry; paganism. 2. The manners or morals usually prevalent in a heathen country; ignorance; rudeness; barbarism.
• HEATHENISH
  1. Of or pertaining to the heathen; resembling or characteristic of heathens. "Worse than heathenish crimes." Milton. 2. Rude; uncivilized; savage; cruel. South. 3. Irreligious; as, a heathenish way of living.
• ABOUND
  1. To be in great plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful. The wild boar which abounds in some parts of the continent of Europe. Chambers. Where sin abounded grace did much more abound. Rom. v. 20. 2. To be copiously supplied; -- followed
• SCOTTICIZE
  To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
• HEATHENIZE
  To render heathen or heathenish. Firmin.
• HEATHENISHLY
  In a heathenish manner.
• HEATHENDOM
  1. That part of the world where heathenism prevails; the heathen nations, considered collectively. 2. Heathenism. C. Kingsley.
• SCOTTISH
  Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
• HEATHENNESS
  State of being heathen or like the heathen.
• HEATH
  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
• SCOTTISH TERRIER
  See TERRIER
• HEATHEN
  hethen, AS. h, prop. an adj. fr. h heath, and orig., therefore, one who lives in the country or on the heaths and in the woods (cf. pagan, fr. pagus village); akin to OS. h, adj., D. heiden a heathen, G. heide, OHG. heidan, Icel. hei, adj., Sw.
• SCOTTERING
  The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
• HEATHCLAD
  Clad or crowned with heath.
• HEATHERY
  Heathy; abounding in heather; of the nature of heath.
• UNSHEATHE
  To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword. To unsheathe the sword, to make war.
• SHEATHLESS
  Without a sheath or case for covering; unsheathed.
• SEA HEATH
  A low perennial plant resembling heath, growing along the seashore in Europe.
• INSHEATHE
  To insert as in a sheath; to sheathe. Hughes.
• SHEATHED
  Invested by a sheath, or cylindrical membranaceous tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses; vaginate. (more info) 1. Povided with, or inclosed in, sheath.
• OVERABOUND
  To be exceedingly plenty or superabundant. Pope.
• SHEATHY
  Forming or resembling a sheath or case. Sir T. Browne.
• SHEATH-WINGED
  Having elytra, or wing cases, as a beetle.
• SHEATHFISH
  See SHEATFISH