heath

plural heaths

1. countableuncountableA tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.

   1. Where the place?/2. Vpon the Heath/3. There to meet with Macbeth

   c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]

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   These two stood in the corridor, waving till the last of the platform was out of sight; then they came into our compartment, and the woman cried a little. Soon she dried her eyes, and went back into the corridor, to have a last glimpse of her native heath.

   1955 May, Rev. A. W. V. Mace, “An Irish Journey—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 303

2. countableuncountableAny small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.

   There was nobody living in Jim's old house, and some of the windows was broken; but there was heath growing back and front.

   1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 258

   1. countableuncountablein Erica spp.
   2. countableuncountablein Cassiope spp.
   3. countableuncountablein Daboecia spp.
   4. countableuncountablein Epacris spp. (Australian heath)
   5. countableuncountablein Leucopogon spp. (beard heath)
   6. countableuncountablein Phyllodoce spp. (mountain heath)
3. Any butterfly or moth of species:
   1. countableuncountableCoenonympha pamphilus, native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and Northern Africa, the small heath
   2. countableuncountableCoenonympha tullia, native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and North America, the large heath
   3. countableuncountableMelitaea athalia (heath fritillary)
   4. countableuncountableSemiothisa clathrata (latticed heath)
   5. countableuncountableEmaturga atomaria (common heath)

alternative Haith

1. A surname.

   Edward Heath, former British prime minister.

2. A male given name.
3. A number of places in the United Kingdom:
   1. A village in Heath and Holmewood parish, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK4466).
   2. A hamlet in Leintwardine parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO3876).
   3. A hamlet in Abdon and Heath parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO5585).
   4. A suburb of Stourbridge, Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SO8983).
   5. A small village in Warmfield cum Heath parish, City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3520).
   6. A suburb, a community and ward in the City of Cardiff, Wales (OS grid ref ST1780).
   7. Hampstead Heath, a park in London.

      "But it must be better still outside, though. They say thousands of people are out in the parks and on the Heath watching it all."

      1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 13

4. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A town in Covington County, Alabama.
   2. An extinct town in Perry Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
   3. A town in Franklin County, Massachusetts.
   4. A township in Allegan County, Michigan.
   5. An unincorporated community in Fergus County, Montana.
   6. A city in Licking County, Ohio.
   7. A township in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.
   8. A city in Rockwall County and Kaufman County, Texas.