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eath | heath |

As an adjective eath

is easy; not hard or difficult.

As an adverb eath

is easily.

As a noun heath is

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

As a proper noun Heath is

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eath

English

Alternative forms

* (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)

Adjective

(er)
  • Easy; not hard or difficult.
  • *1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), XIX, lxi:
  • *:There, as he look'd, he saw the canvas rent, / Through which the voice found eath and open way.
  • *1609 , (Thomas Heywood), Troia Britanica, or Great Britain's Troy :
  • *:At these advantages he knowes 'tis eath to cope with her quite severed from her maids.
  • *1847 , (Hugh Miller), First Impressions of England and its people :
  • *:There has been much written on the learning of Shakespeare but not much to the purpose: one of our old Scotch proverbs is worth all the dissertations on the subject I have yet seen. "God's bairns", it says, "are eath to lear",.

    • Antonyms

    * uneath * difficult

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    Related terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Adverb

    (head)
  • Easily.
  • *1823 , J. Kennedy, Poems :
    • Their food and their raiment he eith can supply.

    Anagrams

    * (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l)

    heath

    English

    (wikipedia heath)

    Noun

  • A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
  • * ~1602 , William Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act I, scene I:
  • *:1. Where the place?/2. Vpon the Heath /3. There to meet with Macbeth
  • Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae .
  • * 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 258:
    • There was nobody living in Jim's old house, and some of the windows was broken; but there was heath growing back and front.
  • # Many of the species in the genus Erica
  • # Many of the species in the genus Cassiope
  • # Both species in the genus
  • # Any of the species in the genus
  • # Any of the species in the genus
  • # Any of the species in the genus
  • (label) Certain butterflies and moths
  • # The palaearctic species of Coenonympha , a genus of brush-footed butterfly
  • ## , native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and Northern Africa, the small heath
  • ## , native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and North America, the large heath
  • # , the heath fritillary
  • #

    • Usage notes

    * The word heaths may describe multiple disconnected heathlands.

    Synonyms

    * heather

    Anagrams

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