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A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
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Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
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Certain butterflies and moths
Examples of heath in a Sentence
The greater part of Hanover is a plain with sandhills, heath and moor.
The army had been increased to 20,000 men and encamped at Hounslow Heath to overawe the capital.
The counties of Viborg, RingkjObing and Ribe cover the principal heath district.
Sheriffs of Kent are mentioned in the time of 'Ethelred II., and in Saxon times the shiremoot met three times a year on Penenden Heath near Maidstone.
Among these was an Englishman, Mr Charles Heath, for whom he had great respect and affection.
Summer is also the best time to see adders basking on the sandy soils of the heath.
We all quite fancied trolling up to Hampstead Heath.
The Heath grammar school was founded in 1585 under royal charter for instruction in classical languages.
The general plan of the open-hearth process was certainly conceived by Josiah Marshall Heath in 1845, if not indeed by Reaumur in 1722, but for lack of a furnace in which a high enough temperature could be generated it could not be carried out until the development of the Siemens regenerative gas furnace about 1860.
In the north and west the clay is interspersed with patches of plateau gravel in the direction of Finchley (where boulder clay also appears), Enfield and Barnet; and of Bagshot sands on Hampstead Heath and Harrow Hill.
Heath Ledger was pronounced dead, at the age of 28.
Heath Ledger - The young and much-accomplished actor died at the age of 28 in 2008, as the result of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.
Heath Andrew Ledger was born on April 4, 1979, in Perth, Australia.
The Heath Ledger biography is really the tale of a great actor, and his roles were incredibly diverse.
China has no Cistus or heath, only a single Ferula, while Astragalus is reduced to 35 species.
A duel ensued at Putney Heath on Sunday, the 27th of May 1798; but neither combatant was injured.
Lenthall and Manchester, the speaker of the Lords, headed the fugitive members at the review on Hounslow Heath on the 3rd of August, being received by the soldiers "as so many angels sent from heaven for their good."
In 1784 the base-line of the first trigonometrical survey in England was laid down on the heath.
Both Absalon and Valdemar narrowly escaped assassination at the hands of their treacherous host on this occasion, but at length escaped to Jutland, whither Sweyn followed them, but was defeated and slain at the battle of Grathe Heath.
He soon made himself known by a variety of useful mechanical inventions, and in 1818 came over to England with a plan for engraving bank-notes on steel, which ultimately proved a signal success, and was carried out by Perkins in partnership with the English engraver Heath.
The reactionary party, which, owing to the absence of Hertford and Lisle and to the presence of Gardiner, gained the upper hand in the council in the summer of 1546, were not satisfied with this repulse; they probably aimed at the leaders of the reforming party, such as Hertford and possibly Queen Catherine Parr, who were suspected of favouring Anne, and on the 18th of June 1546 Anne was again arraigned before a commission including the lord mayor, the duke of Norfolk, St John, Bonner and Heath.
His selection for this duty implies a readiness on Heath's part to proceed some distance along the path of reform; but his dealings with the Lutherans did not confirm this tendency, and Heath's subsequent career was closely associated with the cause of reaction.
The central part of the province forms practically a continuation of the great Luneburg Heath, and its thin sandy soil is of little use for cultivation.
Hooper did his best in the time at his disposal; but in less than a year the bishopric of Gloucester was reduced to an archdeaconry and added to Worcester, of which Hooper was made bishop in succession to Nicholas Heath.
But with lands thus classified heath, moor and hill pastures are not included; and the greatest area of these are naturally found in the counties of the Pennines and the Lake District, especially in Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmorland and the North and West Ridings of Yorkshire.
In the duel on Putney Heath which followed Canning was wounded in the thigh.
Like Drente on the north and Gelderland on the south, Overysel consists of a sandy flat relieved by hillocks, and is covered with waste stretches of heath and patches of wood and high fen.
Higher up the slopes are covered with small heath, Bruniaceae, Rutaceae, &c. All plants with permanent foliage are thickly covered with hair.
In the same year Robert and William Wright, of Nocton Heath, Lincoln, sold their flock of 95 o animals to Senor Manuel Cobo, Buenos Aires, for -C30,000.
They flourished in spite of the oppressions of the Mahommedan governors, and when needful asserted their claims to respect by arms. In 1688, affairs having come to a crisis, Captain William Heath, commander of the company's ships, bombarded the town.
Up to this moment the civil war had been conducted like a great faction fight; the barons and their livened retainers had been wont to seek some convenient heath or hill and there to fight out their quarrel with the minimum of damage to the countryside.
The legal support given him by judges of his own selection was fortified by the military support of an army collected at Hounslow Heath; and a Roman Catholic, the earl of Tyrconnel, was sent as lord-deputy to Ireland (1687) to organize a Roman Catholic army on which the king might fall back if his English forces proved insufficient for his purpose.
Wednesfield (pop. 4883), Heath Town Or Wednesfield Heath (9441) and Willenhall (18, 515) are neighbouring urban districts, with populations employed in the manufacture of locks, keys and small iron goods, in iron and brass foundries, varnish works, &c.
If you fall into the trap of focusing on training to the exclusion of taking care of your overall heath and well being, you won't be able to perform at peak capacity.
Autopsy results proved Heath took an accidental yet deadly combination of prescription drugs.
Hollywood lost a rising star January 22, 2008, when actor Heath Ledger died from an accidental prescription drug overdose.
Gyllenhaal's sister Maggie is also an actor, and Jake is the godfather of Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams' daughter Matilda Rose.
Born in 1979, in Perth, Australia, Heath Ledger came to the United States in 1998 to try his hand at acting in Hollywood movies.
In the controversial, groundbreaking film, he plays a sheep herder who falls in love with another cowboy, played by Heath Ledger.
He is the godfather of Matilda Rose, daughter of Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams.
Actor Heath Ledger died in his New York City apartment on January 22, 2008.
Born on April 4, 1979 in Perth, Australia, Heath took a few small roles beginning in 1988 and landed his first film role in 1997's Blackrock.
Not wanting to be pigeon-holed into the teen movie genre, a year later, Heath accepted the role of Gabriel Martin in the dramatic war film Patriot Games.
In 2005, Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal co-starred in the critically acclaimed Ang Lee film Brokeback Mountain.
Heath Ledger also met Michelle Williams on the set of the film.
The sudden death of Heath Ledger left many friends, family members, colleagues and fans heartbroken.
Heath Ledger was loved by many and his death sent not only his close friends and family, but Hollywood, into mourning.
As a result, further tests were conducted to find out how Heath Ledger died.
Heath's accidental death serves as a caution to the hidden dangers of combining prescription medication, even at low dosage."
When first beginning his acting career, Heath Ledger did not find immediate success.