heath-egger

(héth’eg”ér),n. A bombycid moth, Lasiocampa catlune. heathen (hé’rHen or -FHn), ». and a. [ | heathen ‘heath or open country’ (but not found in this sense), ¢ h@th, EH. heath (= Goth. haith i, etc.), open country, being equiv. to LL. pagan us, heathen, lit. ‘of the country’: see pagan. The resemblance to Gr. évea, é6v7, gentiles, ‘heathen,’ pl. of 2@voc, a nation, is slight and accidental.] I. ». sing.and pl. 1. One of arace, nation, or people that does not acknowledge the God of the Bible, or such races, nations, or peoples collectively, especially when uncivilized or uncultured; one who is not a Jew, Christian, or Mohammedan; a pagan. 'So many were deed and wounded of cristin and hethen that the felde was all couered, so that oon myght not come to a-nother but ouer deed cors.