white 
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and maiked along the sides with several 
indiyphenol. — EreznnitZ wMte, London white, white yellow below, 
lead.— Paris white. See i(iAi7i»(/.—Pattison's white, blackish lines, 
the hydrated oxychlorid of lead.— Pearl white, the basie white-beaked (hwit'bekt), a. Having a white 
nitrat* of bisniuth used as a cosmetic— Permanent 
white. Same as constant w/iiYe. — Roman White, white 
lead: a book-name.— Silver White. Same as French 
irAifc— Spanish white. See whiting.— The white and 
the redt, silver and gold. 
Thev shulle forgon the whyte and ek the rede. 
Chaucer, Troiltis, iii. ISS-i. 
Thin white, in rfUding, the first priming of hot size and 
whiting. This is followed by several layers of greater 
consistence, called thick white. Two thick whites laid on, 
one almost immediately after the other, are called douMe 
opening white.— To Splt White. See sjmC-',— Venice 
white, an adulterated white lead: a book-name.— Zlnc 
White, impure oxid of zinc. 
white' (bwit), v.; pret. and jip. whited. ppr. 
whiting. 1(a) < ME. wliiteii, hwiten, < AS. hwi- 
tian = OHG. u-i::cn, MHG. «-i:cn = Goth, hwcit- 
beak. (o) White-billed, as a bird, (ii) Having the snout 
or rostrum white, as a skunk-porpoise of the genus La- 
i/enorhifnchiis (which see). 
whitebeam, whitebeam-tree (hwit'bem, -tre), 
«. A small Old World tree, I'l/riis Aria, hav- 
ing the under side of its foliage, as well as the 
young twigs and inflorescence, clothed with 
silvery down. See beam-tree. 
white-beard (hwit'berd), n. [< ME. whytcherd; 
< white + beard.] A man having a white or 
gray beard ; a gi-aybeard ; an old man. 
And yff they woUe not dredde, ne obey that, then they 
shall be quyt by Blackberd or Whyteberd. 
Paston Letters, I. 131. 
White-beards have arm'd their thin and hairless scalps 
Against thy majesty. Shak., Rich. II., iii. 2. 112. 
jail, become white ; also AS. ychwitiaii = D. wit- 
fe« = G. (re/s.«<'«=Goth.(7rt/((i'<")(/««,niakewhite; white-bearded (hwit'ber"ded), a. Having a 
from the adj.: see if'AJtel, «.] I.t iniraiis. To white or gray beard, 
grow white; whiten. Our WAite-ftcarrfed Patriarchs died. 
He . . . laueth hem in the lauandrie . . . Byron, Heaven and Earth, i. S. 
And with warme water of bus eyen woketh hit til hit Whlte-hearded monkey, Semnopitheeus nestnr, of Cey- 
ichite. Piers Plowman (C), xvu. 332. io„_ 
II. traii.t. To make white. Specifically— (a) To white-bellied (hwit'bel'id), a. Having the 
whiten ; whitewash ; hence, to gloss over. belly white : specifying many birds and other 
Hisraimenthecameshining, exceeding white as snow; animals. — White-hellied mnrrelet, Brachyrham- 
phus hypoleuciis, a bird of the auk family, found on the 
coast of Southern and Lower California.— White-bellied 
nuthatch. See nuthatch (with cut).— Whlte-beilled 
petrel, Fregatta yrallaria, a kind of stilt-petrel. — 
White-bellied rat. See blacic rat, under ra(i .— Whlte- 
so as no fuller on earth can white them. Mark ix. s. 
Then iiring'st his virtue asleep, and stay's! the wheel 
Both of his reason and judgment, that they move not; 
H'hit'st over all his vices. 
Fletcher (and others). Bloody Brother, iv. 1. 
He was as scrupulously whited as any sepulchre in the 
whole bills of mortality. Thackeray, Newcomes, viii. 
(ft) To make pale or pallid. 
Your passion hath sufficiently whited your face. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, iii. 3. 
= Syn. See whiten. 
white- (hwit), V. t. A dialectal form of thwite. 
Compare whittle'^ from *thwittle. 
white-alloy (hwit'^-loi"), «. One of various .^jjitebelly (hwit'bel"i), n. 1. Tlie common 
Most or „!,„„„ t.,;i„.l „,.„„„„ „f +v 
white-eye 
for buttons, which are made by first casting and then care- 
fully pressing so as to bring out the ornamental pattern 
on the surface, 
whi'te-breas'ted (hwit'bres'ted), «. 1. Having 
a white breast or l)Osom. 
White-breasted like a star 
Fronting the dawn he moved. Tennyson, (Enone. 
2. Having the breast more or less white : speci- 
fying numerous animals. See cut under sqnir- 
rel-hawk. 
white-brindled (hwit'brin''''dled), a. Brindled 
with white: specifying a British moth, Botyn 
olivalis. 
white-browed (hwit'broud), «. In oriiitft., hav- 
ing a white superciliary streak: as, the white- 
browed sparrow, Zoiiotrichia leucophrys. 
whitebug (hwit'bug), n. A bug which injures 
vines and other plants, as a white scale (\yhich 
see, under ichite^). 
whitecap (hwlt'kap), «. 1. The male redstart, 
a bird, liuticiUa phwnicura. See &'st cut un- 
der redstart. [Shropshire, Eng.]— 2. The tree- 
or mountain-sparrow. Passer montanus. Imp. 
Vict. — Z.i>t. The common mnshioom, Agaricus 
campestris. — 4. Naut., a wave with a broken 
crest showing as a white patch; a white horse. 
— 5. \_cap.'\ One of a self-constituted body or 
committee of persons, who, generally under the 
guise of rendering service or protection to the 
community in which they dwell, commit va- 
rious outrages and lawless acts. 
bellied sea-eagle, Ilaliaetus leucoyaster, of Asia, Aus- Whltecnapel Cart. bee can. 
tralia, etc.— ■Whlte-helUed seal, the monk-seal, Mono- whitecoat (hwit'kot), n. A young harp-seal; 
chus nWiceiifer.- 'White-hellied snipe. See mit'pci.— any seal-pup or very young seal whose coat is 
■White-bellied swallow, Taehycineta or Iridoprixne bi- .j^;i„ fNewfoiindland 1 
co^or, having the under parts pure-white, the upper dark wn^e- llNewiounuianu.j ^ ^ ^ ^. 
lustrous-green. It is one of the most beautiful as well as The phenomenon so carefully described by him was 
most abundant swallows of North America, sometimes simply a white-coat, or young six-weeks-old seal. 
known as (ree-«(io«o«'. See cut under »wa!iow.— White- Ka<;*-wood'« .Ma<7., July, 1873, p. S4. {hncyc. Dtet.) 
bellied water-mouse, the Australian Hydromys lemo- -nrhite-crested (hwifkres'ted), a. Having a 
gaster. — White-beUied wren. See wren. 
cheiip alloys used to imitate silver. 
tliem contain copper and tin, with some arsenic. 
whi'te-armed (hwit'iirmd), a. Having white 
arms. — "White-armed sea-anemone, an actinia. So- 
garti.a leticnlxtna. 
white-arse (hwit'iirs), n. The wheatear. 
whiteback (hwit'bak), /(. 1. The canvasback 
duck. See cut under e«Hrai7)«ci-. Alex. Wilson, 
1814. [Potomac river, U. S.]— 2. The white 
poplar, I'opulus alba. [Prov. Eng.] 
white-backed (hwit'bak t), a. Having the back 
inoi'e or loss white — White-backed bushbuck. See 
(iiMAiucJr.— 'White-backed colie, the South African Co- -.,•u^- 
lim capensis, marked with a black-and-white line on each whlte-blaze (hwit blaz) 
side of the back. It is small-bodied, but a footor more long white-bloW (hwit'blo), ii. 
owing to the development of the tail.— "Whlte-backed 
skunk, the conepate. See cut under Conepatus. — 'White- 
backed woodpecker, a three-toed woodpecker of North 
America. Picoides dfrrsalia of Baird, having a long white 
stripe d(nvTi the middle of the black back. 
whitebait (hwit'bat), n. 1. A small clupeoid 
lish, prized as a delicacy in England, 
are best when from 2 or 3 inches long, but retain the name 
up to a size of 4 or n Inches. They abound in the estuary 
sharp-tailed grouse of the United States, whose 
under parts appear white in comparison with 
those of the pinnated grouse. See cut under 
Pedia:cetcs. — 2. The American widgeon, Ma- 
reca americana. See cut under widgeon. [New 
Eng.] 
whitebill (hwit'bil), «. The common Ameri- 
can coot, Fnlica americana. [New Jersey.] 
white-billed (hwit'bild), a. Having a white 
bill, as a bird: specifying various species: as, 
the white-billed textor. See cut under Textor. 
white-bird (hwit'berd), «. Same as white-baker. 
Sa,me aB white-face. 
Either of two early 
white crest, as a bird or other animal : as, the 
white-crested turakoo (see turakoo) ; the great 
white-crested cockatoo, Cacatua eristata; the 
white-crested black Polish fowl; the white-crest- 
ed spiny rat (see Loncheres). 
whi'te-CrO'wned (hwit'kround), o. Haying the 
crown or top of the head white, as a bird. The 
white-crowned pigeon is Columba leucocephala, with the 
whole top of the head pure-white, inhabiting the Wegt 
flowers, .S«j(/'/-rt(/rt tridaetijlites and Erophila vul- 
garis (Uraba verna), both also named whitloic- 
gra.'is: an old name in England. 
white-bonnet (hwit'bon'et), n. A fictitious 
bidder at sales by auction: same as puffer, 2. 
WhUebait wMtebottle (hwit'bof'l), ?i. The hladder-cam- 
pion, iSileiie Cucubalns (S. iiiflata). See Silene. 
f the Thames ami in other similar British localities at Whiteboy (hwit'boi), n. 1+. An old terra of en- 
certain seasons. The fishing begins in April, and lasts 
through the summer; tile fishes are taken in bag-nets. 
They are chiefly of a silvery-white color inclining to a 
pale-greenish on the i>ack. Some places in England, as 
especially Greenwich, are famous for their whitebait 
dinners. The fish are usually fried till they are crisp. 
The identity of whitebait has been much discussed and 
disputed. They have been supposed to be a distinct 
species, named Clupea alba, and even placed in a genus 
framed for their reception as Rogenia alba. They have 
been more generally recognized as the fry of certain clu- 
peoids, as the sprat (CTujoca sprattwi), the herring (C. haren- 
gus), and the shad (of one or another of the British species), 
lint careful examinations of great quantities of whitebait, 
made in different localities at different times, have shown 
tliese opinions to be more or less erroneous. Whitebait 
consists in fact of the fry of several different clupeoid 
fishes, mainly the sprat and the herring, with occasionally 
a small percentage of yet other fishes; and the relative 
quantity of the different species represented varies, more- 
over, accordintr to season and locality. 
Our wives (without whose sanction no good man would 
surely ever look a whitebait in the face) gave us permis- 
sion to attend this entertainment. Thackeray, Philip, xi. 
2. A Chinese salmonoid fish, Nidanx sinensis. 
See Sdlaiix. 
white-baker (hwit'bil''''ker), n. The beam-bird, 
Mu.scicapa grisolu ; tlie spotted flycatcher. Also 
whitewall, tvhite-hird. 
white-barred (hwit'biinl), a. Having one or 
more wliite bars, as an animal: specifying a 
British hawk-moth, Stsiit sjilirgifiirmis or Tro- 
liiiliiiiii sjilifft/iforme. 
white-bass (hwit'bas), v. A fresh-water food- 
fish of th(.' United States, Ilorcus chri/sops, found 
chiefly in the Mississipjii l)asin and the Great 
Lake region, of the same genus as the striped- 
bass (/i". lineatus), which it much resembles, 
but quite ditferent from the black-basses (which 
are ceiitrarclioids). The color is silvery, tinged with 
dearment applied to a favorite son, dependent, 
or tlie like; a darling. See white^, a., 5. 
" I know," quoth I, "I am his white-boy, and will not 
be gulled." Ford, 'Tis Pity, i. i. 
His first addresse was an humble Remonstrance by a 
dutifull son of the Church, almost as if he had said her 
white-boy. Milton, Apology for Sraectymnuus. 
2. [cnji.] A member of an illegal agrarian asso- 
ciation formed in Ireland about the year 1761, 
whose object was "to do justice to the poor by 
restoring the ancient commons and redressing 
other grievances" (Lecki/). The members of the 
association assembled at night with white frocks over 
their other clothes (whence the name), threw down fences, 
and leveled inclosnres (being hence also called Levelers), 
destroyed the property of harsh landlords or their agents, 
the Protestant clergy, the tithe-collectors, and any others 
who had made themselves obnoxious to the association. 
Also used attributively. 
Unlike ordinary crime, the White-boy outrages were 
^s^f«^^- 
White-crowned Pigeon {Columba leHcocefhala). 
Indies and parts of Honda. This is a large stout-bodied 
and dark-colored pigeon, notable as one of the few Amer- 
ican forms which most authors continue to regard as con- 
generic with the Old World species of Columba proper. 
The white-crowned sparrow is Zonotrichia leucophrys, 
one of the crown-sparrows, closely related to the white- 
throated, common in eastern parta of North America, 
having in the adult the top and sides of the head striped 
with ashy-white and black. 
systematically, skilfully, and often very successfully di- white-ear^ (hwit'er), n. A shell of the family 
rected to the enforcement of certain rules of conduct. 
Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., XTi. 
Whitebojrism (hwit'boi-izm), n. [< Whiteboy 
+ -ism.'] The principles or practices of the 
Wliileboys. 
The Catholic bishop of Cloyne, in March, 1762, issued a 
pastoral urging those of his diocese to use all the spiritual 
censures at their disposal for the purpose of repressing 
Whitfboyixm. Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., xvi. 
white-brass (hwit'bras), «. An alloy of copper white-eye (hwit/i;,n. 
.rtion of copper is white-eyed duck, 3;/rocfl /f>TH<7'«<-'' or X /f«- 
cophthalma. See cut tinder A j/too«.— 2. In the 
Vanikoridie ; a vanikoro. 
white-ear^ (hwit'er), n. [See xrhentear.'] The 
wheatear or fallow-finch, Saxicola ananthe. See 
cut under wheatear. 
white-eared (hwlt'erd), a. Having white ears: 
(a) as a bird whose auricular feathers are 
white; (b) as poultry with large white ear- 
lobes White-eared thrush. See thrush^. 
1. In Great Britain, the 
and zinc, in which the proportion of copper 
comparatively small. With less than 45 per cent, of 
copper the color of brass ceases to be yellow, and as the 
percentage of zinc is increased the color of the alloy passes 
from silver-white to gray and bluish-gray. Such alloys are 
brittle, and have but a limited use. Some of these white- 
brasses are sold under the trade-names of "Birmingham 
platinum" and "platinum lead." These are chiefly used 
United States, the white-eyed vireo or greenlet. 
Vireo noreboracensis. See cut under Vireo. — 
3. Any bird of the genus Zosterops : a silver- 
eye: as, the Indian white-eye, Z. palpebrosus. 
See cut under Zosterojis. 
