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hat induced the complaint without any thing elfe. The beft 

 and moft proper means of cure in thefe cafes are, in the firft 

 place, local or general bleeding, then the ufe of fome fuch 

 folutions and internal remedies as the above, after fome time 

 having recourfe to ftronger wafhes and powders of the fame 

 nature, with fmall quantities of opium, and keeping the 

 animals all the while as much as poflible from the light, and 

 the glare of the ground. ( See a paper in the third volume 

 of the Tranfaftions of the Highland Society of Scotland. ) 

 It is obferved, that certain parcels of fheep are very liable to 

 blindnefs of this fort, and that although it is not a fatal dif- 

 eafe in itfelf, it frequently occafions confiderable lofs by the 

 fheep drowning themfelves, or breaking their necks in fall- 

 ing down precipices and other fuch places. 



White Flag, Flake, and Frojl. See the fubftantives. 



White Foot, in the Manege, called in French balzana, 

 is a white mark that happens in the feet of a great many 

 horfes, both before and behind, from the fetlock to the 

 coffin. The horfes thus marked are either tramelled, crofs- 

 tramelled, or white all four. Some horfemen place an un- 

 lucky fatahty in the white of the far foot behind. See 

 Chausse' Trap haul, and Tramelled. 



^HITE Friars, a name common to feveral orders of 

 monks, from their being clothed in a vchite habit. 



Such are, the regular canons of St. Augulline, the Pre- 

 monftratenfes, and Bernardines. See Carmelites. 



White Gla/s. See Glass. 



WniTE-Hart Silver, candidi cer-ci argentum, a tribute or 

 mulft paid into the exchequer, out of certain lands in or 

 near the foreft of White-hart, in Dorfetihire ; which was 

 continued from Henry HI.'s time, who firft impofed it upon 

 Thomas de la Linde, and others, for killing a beautiful 

 white hart, which that king had purpofely fpared in 

 hunting. 



White Hellebore. See Hellebore. 



White Honeyfuclh, in Agriculture, a term often applied 

 to the white clover. It is ftatcd, in the Agricultural Report 

 for the County of Gloucefter, to be a plant which is brought 

 forward by manure and (heep-tlock, and a proof of good 

 land, at leaft of land in a high ftate of cultivation ; and 

 that, on this account, it has, when it abounds in dairy 

 paftures, a tendency to raife the quality of the milk, and 

 make the cheefe hove or heave which is made from it. See 

 Dairying, and White Clover. 



White Horfe-Fijh, in Ichthyology, a common Englilh 

 name for the raia afpera noltras of Willughby, and the raia 

 fuUonica of Rondeletius and Linnxus. Its back is rough 

 and fpiny ; the nofe is (hort and (harp ; at the corner of 

 each eye are a few fpines ; the niftitating membrane is 

 fringed ; the teeth are fmall and fharp : on the upper part 

 of the peftoral fins are three rows of fpines pointing to- 

 ward the back, and crooked, like thofe of the fuller's in- 

 ftrument ; whence its name fullonica and fuller. On the tail 

 are three rows of ftrong fpines : the tail is flender, and 

 rather longer than the body. The colour of the upper 

 part of the body is cinereous, ufually marked with many 

 black fpots ; the lower part while. This fifh grows to a 

 fize equal to that of the fivate. Pennant. 



White JaJ'per, in Mineralogy, or agate jafper, has a pale 

 yellowifti-white colour, and fometimes occurs reddifli-white. 

 It is opaque, and has fmall imperfeftly conchoidal fradlures. 

 See Jasper. 



White Land, in Agriculture, a tough clayey foil, natu- 

 rally of a fomewhat whitifh hue when dry, efpecially when 

 it has lain fome time untilled, but becoming blackilh after 

 rain : this appears of a light greyifii colour when turned 

 'ip by the plough, and Aides off from the plough-fhare with 



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eafe, and with a fmooth glofly furface. It has often a yel- 

 lowifh hue with the grey, and is often veined with large par- 

 cels of a blue marly earth. See Clay Soil. 



White Lead is a fort of ruft of lead, or lead diflblved 

 with vinegar ; much ufed by painters. See Lead, and 

 Cerusse. 



White Leaf, See Crat^gus. 



White Line, among Printers, a void fpace, greater than 

 ufual, left between two lines. See Printing. 



White Line, in Anatomy. See Linea Alba. 



White Linen is cloth of hemp, or flax, bleached by 

 divers leys, and waterings on the ground. 



White Manganefi, in Mineralogy, manganefe oxyde car- 

 bonate, Hauy. Red manganefe ore of fome mineralogifts. 

 This ore occurs of various colours, from yellowifh-white to 

 rofe-red. See Ores of Manganese. 



White Meats include milk, butter, cheefe, white pots, 

 cuftards, and other foods confifting of milk, or eggs. Some 

 add, alfo, filh, veal, and chickens. 



White Mortar. See Mortar. 



White Mujl-Apple, in Rural Economy, a very fine cider- 

 fruit in field fruit-grounds. This, with the fox-whelp, red- 

 ftreak, and fome others, are fine old fruits, but which are 

 now going off, and afford the beft cider, when mixed in the 

 mill : the proportions in which they are to be ufed have 

 never, however, been defined, but depend probably a good 

 deal on the quantity to be ground at the fame time. 



White Muflard, in Agriculture, a fort of plant which is 

 often cultivated in the field for the ufe of the feed in dif- 

 ferent places. 



The beft fort of foil for it is that of the light loam, 

 which ftiould be well broken down and reduced by plough- 

 ing and harrowing. Some, on frefti broken up land, make 

 a winter fallow for this crop. 



It is moftly put in after a wheat-crop, but may fucceed 

 others where the land is clean and well prepared. In Kent, 

 they ftrike furrows about eleven or twelve inches apart, and 

 then fow the feed, two or three gallons to the acre, in the 

 month of March. 



The culture of it while growing is to hoe it, and keep it 

 free from weeds, to fet it out in the way of turnips, not too 

 thick on the ground, as that draws up the plants weak. 

 The crop is reaped about July. In fome cafes, it is laid in 

 gavels or handfuls upon the ftubble, in the fame manner as 

 cole-feed. It is ufually threfhed out on a fail-cloth in the 

 field. 



The produce differs from eight to twenty bufiiels the 

 acre. 



It is a ticklifti fort of crop, as one frofty morning will 

 kill it, and it is liable to be injured and eaten by the black 

 caterpillar ; but when it turns out well is very profitable. 



It is faid not to exhauft the land much, which is greatly 

 in its favour. 



White Nebbed-Crow, a term provincially applied to the 

 rook in fome cafes. 



White Order. See Order. 



White Paper is that intended for writing, printing, &c. 

 in contradiftinftion to brown paper, marbled paper, blotting 

 paper, &c. 



White, Pearl. See Pearl. 



White Pepper. See Pepper. 



White Poplar, in Agriculture, a tree of the poplar kind, 

 in which the wood is foft, but convertible to various ufes in 

 hulbandry, as it grows quickly and bears cropping well. It 

 is beft grown in low fituations, where the foil is of a clayey 

 nature. It is fometimes called the abele tree. 



White 



