heather• I wasn't myself in the heather that night.• Billy's short legs kept getting tangled in the heather, so he bounced along like a kangaroo through the springytufts.• His drive went low up the right side of the fairway and faded impotently into the heather.• The bladeplunged on into the heather at the side of the track.• On the hillsides all around, the sun-dazzling orange of the bracken against the black of the heatherstartled the eye.• We carried on walking northwards following sheep tracks through the heather and rockoutcrops.• The heather, purple now, they went into ecstasies over.• A dark, intense, semi-smiling stare, as if the sprig of white heather was not charity but compulsory.
Originheather
(1700-1800)Northern and Scottish Englishhaddir, hathir((14-18 centuries)); influenced by heath