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heather
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Heath \Heath\ (h[=e]th), n. [OE. heth waste land, the plant heath, AS. h[=ae][eth]; akin to D. & G. heide, Icel. hei[eth]r waste land, Dan. hede, Sw. hed, Goth. hai[thorn]i field, L. bucetum a cow pasture; cf. W. coed a wood, Skr. ksh[=e]tra field. [root]20.]
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(Bot.)
A low shrub ( Erica vulgaris or Calluna 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.
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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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.
--MiltonHeath cock (Zo["o]l.), the blackcock. See Heath grouse (below).
Heath grass (Bot.), a kind of perennial grass, of the genus Triodia ( Triodia decumbens), growing on dry heaths.
Heath grouse, or Heath game (Zo["o]l.), a European grouse ( Tetrao tetrix), which inhabits heaths; -- 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. (Zo["o]l.) See Heath grouse (above).
Heath pea (Bot.), a species of bitter vetch ( Lathyrus macrorhizus), the tubers of which are eaten, and in Scotland are used to flavor whisky.
Heath throstle (Zo["o]l.), a European thrush which frequents heaths; the ring ouzel.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., hathir, from Old English *hæddre, Scottish or northern England dialect name for Calluna vulgaris, probably altered by heath, but real connection to that word is unlikely [Liberman, OED]. Perhaps originally Celtic. As a fem. proper name little used in U.S. before 1935, but a top-15 name for girls born there 1971-1989.
Wiktionary
a. Of a purple colour with a tint with pink and blue. n. 1 (context botany English) An evergreen plant, (taxlink Calluna vulgaris species noshow=1), with spiky leaves and small purple, pink, or white flowers. 2 (context botany English) The Ericaceae family. 3 (context botany English) Various species of the genus ''Erica''. 4 (context botany English) Various species of the genus ''Cassiope''. 5 A purple colour with a tint of pink and blue.
WordNet
n. common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere [syn: ling, Scots heather, broom, Calluna vulgaris]
interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted grayish shades with flecks of color [syn: heather mixture]
Wikipedia
Heather may refer to:
In clothing, heather refers to interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing flecks of an alternate color. It is typically used to mix multiple shades of grey or grey with another color to produce a muted shade (e.g., heather green), but any two colors can be mixed, including bright colors. Heather yarn is costly as compare to other yarn. It is sometimes referred to as a frosting color.
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"Heather" is a song that appears on The Beatles bootleg No. 3 Abbey Road N.W., but was actually recorded on the 22nd November 1968 by Paul McCartney (vocal and acoustic guitar) with Donovan (acoustic guitar and chorus) and Mary Hopkin (chorus) during the sessions for Hopkin's Postcard LP. The tune was written for Linda McCartney's daughter Heather, who was adopted by Paul, in his relationship with Linda Eastman. The 1968 demo has been widely associated under The Beatles name and was recorded in reasonable quality.
Heather is a popular English and Scottish given name for girls. It simply means "heather" from the English word for the variety of small shrubs with pink or white flowers which commonly grow in rocky areas. It is derived from Middle English hather. Heath can be used as a male given name. Heather is also a color, a light purple shade with a hint of grey.
"Heather" is the 4th episode of the first season of the CW television series The Secret Circle, and the series' 4th episode overall. It was aired on October 6, 2011. The episode was written by David Ehrman and it was directed by Dave Barrett.
Heather is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Adam Heather (born 1972), English cricketer
- Larry R. Heather, Canadian politician
- Peter Heather, British historian
- Roy Heather (born 1935), English actor
- Scott Heather (born 1975), American college baseball coach
- Sean Heather (born 1982), English cricketer
- Teariki Heather (born 1959), Cook Island politician
- William (Smiley) Heather (born 1958), Cook Island politician
Usage examples of "heather".
It was a hot still day in late summer and this was one of the softer corners of the Dales, sheltered by the enclosing fells from the harsh winds which shrivelled all but the heather and the tough moorland gmss.
For the statues were half-eaten by birdlime anc some of their heads had been knocked off, and since no one hac tended this place in over half a year, heather and wild oats had begur to seed amidst the cracks.
She dressed and carefully threaded the heather sprig into the brooch that held her arisaid in place, then gathered her cloak and set out for the castle, anxious to find Ailig.
Heather quietly entered an exclusive West Hollywood surgical clinic and underwent a breast augmentation, a blepharoplasty, a rhinoplasty, a complete rhytidectomy, a chin implant, and suction lipectomies of the thighs, abdomen, and buttocks.
XXV But gentle even in his wildest mood, Always, and most, he loved the bluest weather, And in some soft and sunny solitude Couched like a milder sunshine on the heather, He communed with the winds, and with the birds, As if they might have answered him in words.
On Wednesday 20 April 1994, eight weeks after the police first arrived at Cromwell Street with a warrant to search for Heather, Rosemary West was arrested and taken to Cheltenham police station.
And if you examine heather through a strong magnifying-glass, it is like milk-wort, Epilobium in Latin or a rhododendron, or like an elm tree, which is nothing more nor less than a huge nettle.
Across the deep vale the Exmoor mountains rise and reach on either hand, immense breadths of dark heather, deep coombes filled with black shadow, and rounded masses that look dry and heated.
It was a tea worth waiting for, in the true Exmoor tradition, with farmhouse scones, heather honey in the comb and clotted cream.
And the green did seem to be everywhere it could be: featherleaf down the hillside and in the town, ferns all over the near hillsides, and heather struggling toward the gray crowns of the mountains across the channel.
The gate opened to the southwest, and the road led from it into a field of brilliant crimson fireweed and pink wild heather awash in a ground of green.
But Kathy Warren must have been a very hardheaded woman, because Heather had definitely inherited that trait from someone.
George Hamilton, Christopher Reeve, Brooke Shields, jack Nicholson, Michael Douglas, Heather Locklear, Quincy Jones, and a host of other Hollywoodites flew in ready to join local celeb Billy Kidd and ski for a good cause.
The flowers of the tundra opened: white mountain avens, yellow poppies, white heather, crimson, yellow, red, white and purple saxifrage, lousewort, pink primulas, even the orange marigolds.
Here and there among the heather grew creeping mealberry vines, with bright red fruit-like beads, and huckleberry bushes that tempted our pleasure-seekers to alight again and again to gather and eat of their fruit.