Heath

or Heather, a shrub of the family Ericacew, mostly natives of the Old World, though the common heath of England is also indigenous to a few localities in New England, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. The Scotch heather-bell is Erica cinerea. 7 Heathen, in the Old Testament, a Gentile, one not a Jew; but with the further implication that he worshiped false gods, or that, if he served Jehovah, he did so by forbidden methods, and that, in consequence of his erroneous faith, he, or at least his fellow worshipers, practised moral abominaio abhorrent to the true people of od.