[heeth] 
| 1. | a tract of open and uncultivated land; wasteland overgrown with shrubs. |
| 2. | any of various low-growing evergreen shrubs common on such land, as the common heather, Calluna vulgaris. |
| 3. | any plant of the genus Erica, or of the family Ericaceae. |
[heeth] | Sir Edward (Richard George), 1916–2005, British statesman: prime minister 1970–74. |
| heath (hēth) n.
[Middle English, uncultivated land, from Old English hǣth; see kaito- in Indo-European roots.] |
| Heath (hēth) British politician who as prime minister (1970-1974) secured his country's entry into the Common Market (1973) and sought to offset high inflation by controlling wages, which led to a crippling miners' strike (1974). |
Heath
Heb. 'arar, (Jer. 17:6; 48:6), a species of juniper called by the Arabs by the same name ('arar), the Juniperus sabina or savin. "Its gloomy, stunted appearance, with its scale-like leaves pressed close to its gnarled stem, and cropped close by the wild goats, as it clings to the rocks about Petra, gives great force to the contrast suggested by the prophet, between him that trusteth in man, naked and destitute, and the man that trusteth in the Lord, flourishing as a tree planted by the waters" (Tristram, Natural History of the Bible).