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▪ I. heathery, n.|ˈhiːθərɪ|
[f. heath + -ery: cf. pinery, fernery.]
A collection of heaths; a place in which heaths are grown.
1804H. C. Andrews (title) The Heathery, or Monograph of the Genus Erica. 1849Beck's Florist 10, I know from experience that Heaths will thrive as well in a greenhouse..as they would do in a heathery. 1850Ibid. Feb. 33 A skilful disposition of the plants in the Heathery.
▪ II. heathery, a.|ˈhɛðərɪ|
Also 6 hadrie.
[f. heather + -y.]
Covered with or abounding in heather; of the nature or appearance of heather.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. I. 340 In craig and cleuche, and mony hadrie hill. 1710Earl of Cromarty in Phil. Trans. XXVII. 296 The Surface is covered with a heathy, and (as they call it) a heathery Scurf. 1804J. Grahame Sabbath 152 Flowers that strangers seem Amid the heathery wild. 1810Scott Lady of L. i. ii, The antlered monarch of the waste Sprung from his heathery couch in haste.
Hence ˈheatheriness.
1862Shirley Nugæ Crit. i. 67 The romance of the moor has been recently disturbed, and even the gor-cock has begun to lose the old racy heatheriness. |