(n.) A low shrub (Erica, / Calluna, vulgaris), with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called heather, and ling.
(n.) Also, any species of the genus Erica, of which several are European, and many more are South African, some of great beauty. See Illust. of Heather.
(n.) A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some commentators have described his ship, now facing more delays after a decade in development, as little more than a Heath Robinson machine.
(2) Her unclothed remains were found six months later by mushroom pickers at Yateley Heath Woods, near Fleet, Hampshire, 25 miles away.
(3) 10.54am GMT Among other things, Heath’s measure would improve the transparency of the investigatory powers tribunal, which investigates complaints from members of the public made against the intelligence agencies MI5, MI6 and GCHQ .
(4) Both Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Tory leader Edward Heath had stayed on in the chamber to listen to him.
(5) He said he would not repeat the mistake of Edward Heath who in 1972, "two years into office, was faced with economic problems and over-powerful unions and buckled and gave up".
(6) Ted Heath remained in office over the weekend after the general election on 28 February 1974, despite winning four seats fewer than Labour, as he tried unsuccessfully to form a coalition with the Liberals.
(7) Likewise, Hippocrates, the father of western medicine, prescribed sun worship as a vital constituent of heath and had a solarium installed on the island of Kos.
(8) He is a regular panellist on comedy news quizzes, and reaches for Wodehouse in depicting 70s foreign secretary Lord Home "playing Lord Emsworth to Heath's Empress of Blandings".
(9) A demoralised workforce performs less efficiently, and a less-efficient system can be broken up and sold to private firms.” The Department of Heath insists these fears are misplaced.
(10) Osborne expressed the same sort of sentiments on Thursday, although it appears he used a private breakfast with 30 business leaders to deliver a bit of a pep talk rather than a Heath-style tirade at business ingratitude.
(11) The Liberal party rebelled against getting into bed with the Tories, Heath was forced to call for the removal vans and was subsequently sacked as Conservative leader.
(12) With the backing of the Met's then commissioner, Sir (now Lord) Paul Condon, warrants were obtained for the planting of listening devices in Southern's offices in Thornton Heath, south west London.
(13) Over the course of a month between 30 May and 30 June, he visited cash machines at Barclays, the Post Office, Tesco, Morrisons, TSB and Nationwide in Small Heath, Sparkbrook and Yardley Wood.
(14) Of course, after Hitler got into power and Low started, beautifully, to take the piss, Low, along with his cartooning colleagues Illingworth, Vicky and even Heath Robinson, was placed on the Gestapo's deathlist.
(15) "I was obviously, having worked with Ted Heath, committed to Europe.
(16) Burnham, the shadow heath secretary, received 68 nominations from MPs, mainly from the north.
(17) It was provoked by the government in order to take revenge for the 1972 and 1974 miners' strikes, which destroyed the Heath government's incomes policy and brought it down.
(18) Saleem, 82, was killed on 29 April, as he walked from a mosque to his home in Small Heath just after 10pm.
(19) A central issue is to establish why five "conditioning techniques" – hooding, stress positions, sleep deprivation, food and water deprivation, and white noise – inflicted on IRA suspects and banned in 1972 by the then prime minister, Edward Heath, were used on Iraqi detainees.
(20) In this, Dalgliesh investigates a killing in a privately run crime museum on the edge of Hampstead Heath, London.
Scrubby
Definition:
(superl.) Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur.
Example Sentences:
(1) Built on a scrubby ridge of limestone pavement, the houses of Khirbet Susiya are closely overlooked by a neighbouring Israeli settlement built on land expropriated from the villagers – illegal under international law – and, unlike the Palestinian village, connected to public services.
(2) Photograph: Landmark Trust It’s supposed to be an easy, hour-and-a-half walk but on the boat we sit in summer dresses and sandals watching what seems to be an awful lot of scrubby, mountainous terrain float by.
(3) Only during the last few weeks of the conflict did the world begin to take notice of events in the rough, scrubby plains of northern Sri Lanka.
(4) A few suspiciously straight lines in a corner of a 1951 aerial photograph showing acres of featureless scrubby heath have led archaeologists to a lost first world war landscape.
(5) In a terrain that was recently farmland and is now a butchered waste, the most depressing detail is the featureless, scrubby horizon.
(6) And that is what he has done by turning an insignificant protest in a scrubby little park into a national emergency.
(7) About four minutes in, it switches to Bergdahl waiting for release in a battered pickup truck in scrubby wilderness just off a dirt road.
(8) Behind the campus of the Hebrew University a scrubby hill drops steeply to the East Jerusalem village of Isawiya.
(9) Where the scrubby fields of central Gaza meet the Israeli border fence, there is a locked gate.
(10) As you fly west over Texas, the lush pastureland and whitewashed farms gradually give way to scrubby hills dotted with trailer-homes - and then eventually to the desert, inhabited solely by clusters of oil wells.
(11) It was scrubby and nicotine-hued for months last year after thousands of occupying protesters erected tents, noodle stalls and pop-up hair salons during efforts to topple the elected government.
(12) I didn’t think they’d want to come out here.” For “here” is not the leafy London suburb of the same name but an isolated and scrubby corner of a British military base at Dhekelia, on Cyprus’s south-eastern coast.
(13) The returning refugees whose makeshift homes are scattered in the scrubby forest around the A9 exist on food rations and occasional days of paid labour.
(14) On Friday, at Central Islip’s vast federal courthouse, which rises like a white edifice in scrubby woodland five miles from where the murders took place, President Trump’s attorney general, Jeff Sessions, restated his commitment to helping the police battle street gangs.
(15) In an enormous clay pit set in scrubby woodland outside the hamlet of Tomasica, British, American and Bosnian forensic experts from the ICMP, along with counterparts from Bosnia's Missing Persons Institute, are digging up hundreds of muddy, grey-brown corpses.
(16) In the summer, Davies says, the flock ditches the scrubby shelter of the odd cluster of eucalypts to follow the turbine’s shade, stretching out along the shadow cast by the 80m pole like a woolly sundial.
(17) There's a group of people seen from far off in the scrubby brown landscape.
(18) It took them 10 days to reach Pathai, a scrubby village in remote central Jonglei.
(19) Boyce was narrowly the bookies' favourite for the prize, ahead of painter George Shaw, who chronicles the scrubby, dilapidated suburban streets of his native Midlands.
(20) In a terrain that was recently farmland, the most depressing detail is the featureless, scrubby horizon These dispirited infantrymen hardly even have the luxury of a trench; they huddle in what looks like a gash left behind by a shell, and may have been told – as were many of their colleagues – to use clods of earth as camouflage, burying themselves alive.