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<p><b>2.</b> <def>A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage.</def>

<blockquote>Their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted <b>heath</b>. <i>Milton</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Heath cock</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>the blackcock. See <cref>Heath grouse</cref> (below).</cd> -- <col>Heath grass</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>a kind of perennial grass, of the genus <spn>Triodia</spn> (<spn>T. decumbens</spn>), growing on dry heaths.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Heath grouse</col>, &or; <col>Heath game</col></mcol> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a European grouse (<spn>Tetrao tetrix</spn>), which inhabits heats; -- called also <altname>black game</altname>, <altname>black grouse</altname>, <altname>heath poult</altname>, <altname>heath fowl</altname>, <altname>moor fowl</altname>. The male is called, <altname>heath cock</altname>, and <altname>blackcock</altname>; the female, <altname>heath hen</altname>, and <altname>gray hen</altname>.</cd> -- <col>Heath hen</col>. <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <cd>See <cref>Heath grouse</cref> (above).</cd> -- <col>Heath pea</col> <fld>(bot.)</fld>, <cd>a species of bitter vetch (<spn>Lathyris macrorhizus</spn>), the tubers of which are eaten, and in Scotland are used to flavor whisky.</cd> -- <col>Heath throstle</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a European thrush which frequents heaths; the ring ouzel.</cd></cs>

<h1>Heathclad</h1> <Xpage=679>

<hw>Heath"clad`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Clad or crowned with heath.</def>

<h1>Heathen</h1> <Xpage=679>

<hw>Hea"then</hw> <tt>(?; 277)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Heathens</plw> <tt>(#)</tt> or <i>collectively</i> <plw>Heathen</plw></plu>. <ety>[OE. <ets>hethen</ets>, AS. <ets>h<?/<?/en</ets>, prop. an adj. fr. <ets>h<?/<?/</ets> heath, and orig., therefore, one who lives in the country or on the heaths and in the woods (cf. <ets>pagan</ets>, fr. <ets>pagus</ets> village); akin to OS. <ets>h<?/<?/in</ets>, adj., D. <ets>heiden</ets> a heathen, G. <ets>heide</ets>, OHG. <ets>heidan</ets>, Icel. <ets>hei<?/inn</ets>, adj., Sw. <ets>heden</ets>, Goth. <ets>haipn<?/</ets>, <tt>n.</tt> fem. See <er>Heath</er>, and cf. <er>Hoiden</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An individual of the pagan or unbelieving nations, or those which worship idols and do not acknowledge the true God; a pagan; an idolater.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An irreligious person.</def>

<blockquote>If it is no more than a moral discourse, he may preach it and they may hear it, and yet both continue unconverted <b>heathens</b>. <i>V. Knox.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>The heathen</col>, <cd>as the term is used in the Scriptures, all people except the Jews; now used of all people except Christians, Jews, and Mohammedans.</cd></cs>

<blockquote>Ask of me, and I shall give thee the <b>heathen</b> for thine inheritance. <i>Ps. ii. 8.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Pagan; gentile. See <er>Pagan</er>.</syn>

<h1>Heathen</h1> <Xpage=679>

<hw>Hea"then</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Gentile; pagan; <as>as, a <ex>heathen</ex> author</as>.</def> "The <i>heathen</i> philosopher." "All in gold, like <i>heathen</i> gods."

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Barbarous; unenlightened; heathenish.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Irreligious; scoffing.</def>

<h1>Heathendom</h1> <Xpage=679>

<hw>Hea"then*dom</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>h&aemac;&edh;end&omac;m</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>That part of the world where heathenism prevails; the heathen nations, considered collectively.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Heathenism.</def>

<i>C. Kingsley.</i>

<h1>Heathenesse</h1> <Xpage=679>

<hw>Hea"then*esse</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>h&aemac;&edh;ennes</ets>, i. e., heathenness.]</ety> <def>Heathendom.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer. Sir W. Scott.</i>

<h1>Heathenish</h1> <Xpage=679>

<hw>Hea"then*ish</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>h&aemac;&edh;enisc</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Of or pertaining to the heathen; resembling or characteristic of heathens.</def> "Worse than <i>heathenish</i> crimes."

<i>Milton.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Rude; uncivilized; savage; cruel.</def>