whitening 
Three bright shillings, . . . which I'eggotty had evi- 
dently polished np with whitening. 
Dickens, David t'opperfleld, v. 
whitening-slicker (hwit'nhig-slik'er), n. A 
kind of scraper or knife witli a very line edge, 
used by leather-dressers in whitening or clean- 
ing the flesh side of skins before waxing. 
whitening-stone (hwit'uing-ston), «. A fine 
sharpening stone used by <'utlers. 
white-pot (hwit'pot), «. 1. A dish made of 
milk or cream, eggs, sugar, bread or rice, and 
sometimes fruit, spices, etc., baked in a pot or 
in a bo\yl placed in a quick oven. Older recipes 
differ as to the ingredients, Ijut in its more frequent forms 
the dish is of the nature of a rice- or bread-pudding. 
To make a white-pot. Take a pint and a half of cream, 
a quarter of a pound of sugar, a little rose-water, a few 
dates sliced, a few raisins of the sun, six or seven eggs, 
and a little mace, a sliced pippin, or lemon, cut sippet 
6912 white wing 
white-thorn (hwit'thom), n. [< ME. whyUic 
5- '•'• tharnf, idtthorn; (.white^ + thoriA.'] Seethorii^. 
A ground-thrush, Geitcirlila whitethroat (hwit'throt), n. 1. One of sev- 
This bird was originally described eral small singing birds of the genus Sylvia, 
found in the British Islands. The common white- 
throat is S. ciiierea. The lesser whitethroat is R. cumtca. 
The garden-whitethroat is S. horteimg, also called biUy 
whitethroat and greater peUichapg. See cut in preceding 
column. 
2. The white-throated sparrow, or peabody- 
bird, of the United States, Zonotrichia albicolHx. 
— 3. A Brazilian humming-bird, Loucochlorin 
idhicolli'i. The character implied in the name 
..,■,..,,.,,,. . - , _ , ,, I. is very uiuisual in this family. 
itantonly, its habitat benig as given under !/ro«n(/-r/t)TMA vi._"4.v.._«4._j i\ ;*'H,.;i//4-„,i\ « tj <,<,;<,» o 
(which se4); (3) that the supposed White's thrush of Aus- whlte-throated (hwit thro'ted), a. Having a 
tralia is G. lunvlata (Turdiis lunulatus of Latham), and 
Carry it among the whiigterg in Datchet-niead 
Shak., M. W. of W., 
White's thmsh. 
(Orcochicid) raria. 
as Turdm varlus by Pallas, 1811 ; as jT. aureus by H olandre, 
1828; and as T. whitei by Eyton, 1836, when it was found 
as a straggler to Great Britain, and dedicated to (J. White 
of Selborne ; it is also known as Oreocincla aurea, 0. whitei, 
and by other names. By some singular misapprehension 
White's thrush has been said to be "the only known bird 
which is found in Europe and America and Australia alike" 
— the facts being (I) that various birds are so found, but 
no tlirushes of any kind are so found ; (2) that White's 
thrush has never been found either in America or in Aus- 
tralia, and has been found in Europe as an accidental vis- 
the true White's thrush, occurring as a straggler in Eu- 
rope, was mistakenly recorded as Turdwt lunulatus by 
Blasius in 1862 : whence a part of the myth, which in its 
y -. -. .: . 1- ,-- . J J. .u --1 rounded-out form extended to America, 
fashion for your dishes you bake m, and dip them in sack ._,i,jf -_+„_. /i,..,;f'„(.^,, > „ a litpvu! tvHiiKlfltinii 
or rose-water. OenUewmnanS Delight (.1676). WhlteStOnC (^Mt ston), «. A literal tiansiation 
of the German JVetssstem, the name of a rock 
When I show you the library, you shall see in her own 
hand . . . the best receipt now in England both for a 
hasty-pudding and a white-pot. Steele, Spectator, No. 109. 
But white-pot thick is my Buxoma's fare. 
While she loves white-pot, capon ne'er shall be. 
Nor hare, rior beef, nor pudding, food for me. 
Gay, Shepherd's Week, Monday, 1. 92. 
2t. A drink consisting of port wine heated, 
with a roasted lemon, sugar, and spices added. 
y. and Q., 7th ser., VII. 218. 
whi'te-pudding (hwit'pud''''ing), «. 1. A pud- 
ding made of milk, eggs, flour, and butter. — 2. 
A kind of sausage of oatmeal rai.xed with suet, 
seasoned with pepper, salt, and sometimes 
onions, and stuffed into a prepared intestine. 
Compare hlack-puddiiuj. 
white-rock (hwit'rok), n. In the South Staf- 
fordshire coal-field, dikes of diabasic rock which 
there intersect the coal-measures. 
Microscopical examination shows that this white-rock 
or "white-trap" is merely an altered form of some dia- 
basic or basaltic rock, wherein the felspar crystals, though 
much decayed, can yet be traced, the angite, olivine, and 
magnetite being more or less completely changed into a 
mere pulverulent earthy substance. 
Geikie, Text-Book of Geol., 2d ed., p. ."iOO. 
white-roott (h-wit'rot), «. The Soloiiion's-seal, 
Polygonatum multifloriim, or perhaps P. offici- 
nale. 
white-rot (hwlt'rot), n. See rot. 
whi'terump (hwit'rurap), «. 1. Savae as white- 
tail, 1. — 2. The Hudsonian godwit, Limnxa liie- 
mastica: same asspoirump. G. TrumbuU, 1888. 
[West Barnstable, Mass.] 
white-rumped (hwit'rumpt), a. Having a white 
rump or white upper tail-coverts: specifying va- 
rious birds ■WMte-nunped petrel, Leach's petrel, 
Cymochorea leucorrhoa, of a fuliginous color with white 
upper tail-coverts : found on both east and west coasts of 
the United States.— WMte-rumped sandpiper, Bona- 
parte's sandpiper, Tringa or Actodromas bonapartei, hav- 
ing white upper tail-covert« ; abundant in many parts of 
North America.— 'WMte-rumped shrllce, the common 
American shrike, a variety of the loggerhead, Lanius ludo- 
cicianus eicitfri'torot'dra.— WMte-rumped tMllSh. See 
thnish'^. 
white-sal'ted (hwit'sal"ted), a. t'ured in a 
certain manner, as herring (which see) 'WMte- 
salted herring. .See herring. 
white-scop (hwit'skop), «. Same as whitehead. 
1. G. Trumbull, 1888. [Local, Connecticut.] 
white-shafted (hwit 'shaf ''■'ted), a. Having 
white shafts or shaft-lines of the feathers: as, 
the ifhite-shafted fantail, lihiindnra albiscapa. 
Compare red-shafted, yellow- shafted. 
Whiteside (hwit'sid), n. Tlie golden-eyed duck, 
Clanyuld ijlaucion. [Westmoreland, Eng.] 
white-sided (hwit'si'ded), a. Having the sides 
white throat: specifying many birds and other 
animals: as, the white-throated sparrow, Zono- 
trichia albicollis, the most abundant kind of 
crown-sparrow found in eastern parts of the 
United States. See cut under Zonotrichia. — 
White-tMoated blue warbler. See warWpr.— WMte- 
throated finch. See^jicAi.— 'WMte-tMoated moM- 
tor, a Suiitli African varan. Monitor all>igtdarig.—WbXt^ 
throated tMckhead. Same as thunder-bird, 1. — 'WMte- 
throated warbler. See warbler. 
whitetip (hwit'tip), II. A humming-bird of the 
genus I'rosticte. 
the white 
now generally known as granulite, but some- 
times called leptinite. The name WeissstHn is now 
obsolete in Germany, and irhitestoue has very rarely been 
used by English writers on lithology. 
whi'tetail (hwit'tal), n. [Formerly also whit- ^ 
tail; < white + tail. Cf. whiterump, wheatear.^ -whitV-top "(hwYt'top), u. A grass 
1. Thewheatearorstoneehat,iSaxico/n(Bna«W«'. ^jj.,jf or fiorin Aqrostis alba. 
Mm whiterump, tchite-arse, wittol, etc. See cut ^hite-tree (h-vvit'tre), n. Atree of Australia 
under wheatear.— 2. A hummiug-bird of the ^^^ tj,g Malay archipelago, Melaleuca Leiu;a- 
genus Urochroa (which see, with cut).— 3. The (ie„(i,-„„ a probable variety of which, M. minor, 
white-tailed deer of North America, Cariacu.i fumjgties eajeput-oil. 
virginianus: in distinction from the blacktail -syhitewaU (hwit'wal), n. Same as white-baker. 
(C.macrotis). See tchite-tailed deer (unaer white- rpj-oy. Eng.] 
tailed), and cut under Cariacm 
white-'tailed (hwit'tald), a. Having the tail 
more or less completely white : noting various 
birds and other animals — 'WMte-tailed buzzard, 
Duteo ttlbocaudatus, a fine large hawk of Texas and south- 
ward, having the tail and its coverts white with broad 
black subterminal zone, and many flue zigzag blackish 
lines.— WMte-tailed deer, the commonest deer of North 
America, Cariacus virginianus; the whitetail. The tail 
is very long and broad, of a flattened lanceolate shape, 
and on the upper side concolor with the back; but it 
is pure-white underneath, and very conspicuous when 
hoUted in (light. See cut under Cormcii*.— WMte- 
tailed eagle, Ualiaetus atbicilla, the common sea-eagle 
or earn of Europe, etc. — WMte-tailed emerald, Elvira 
chionura, a small 
humming-bird, 3J 
inches long, chief- 
ly green, but with 
the crissal and tail 
feathers white, the 
latter tipped with 
black. This spe- 
cies inhabits the 
United .States of 
Colombia (Vera- 
gua) and Costa 
Rica. A second is 
E. cupreiceps, lit- 
tle different. The 
feature named is 
unusual in this 
family. Compare 
Urochroa (with 
cut) and Urosticte. 
— WMte-tailed gnu, Catoblepas gnu, the common gnu, 
in distinction from C. gorgon, whose tail is black. See 
cut under ymi.- 'WMte-tailed godwit, Limosa uropij- 
gialis, a species widely distributea. closely resembling the 
bar-tailed godwit.— White-tailed kite, the black-shoul- 
dered kite of the United States. Elauusleucurus. See cut 
under Mtf.- WMte-tailed longspur, the black shoul- 
dered or chestnut-colhu-ed longspur. Centrophanes orna- 
tus, a verj- common fringilline bird of the western parts of 
North America.— 'WMte-tailed marlln. See marlin {b). 
—WMte-tailed mole, Talpa leueura, an Indian species. 
— 'WMte-tailed ptarmigan, Lagopm leucurus, a ptar- 
migan peculiar to the Rocky Mountain region of North 
America, in winter pure-white all over, including the tail, 
contrary to the rule in this genus. The nearest approach to 
this condition is found in L. hemileucurus of Spitzbergen. 
\Vliite-t.-iiIed Emerald iHl-vira ifiianur, 
white, or having white on the sides: as, the white-thighed (hwit'thid), n. Having the fcni 
white-sided dolphin, or skunk-porpoise. See out oral region white, or having white on the thighs: 
under Lagenorhynchus. as, the white-thighed colobus, Colobus rellerosm, 
whitesmith (hw'it'smith), «. [< whiter + smith, a semnopithecoid ape of Africa. 
Cf. blac]csmith.~\ 1. A worker in tinware. — 2. 
A worker in iron who finishes or polishes the 
work, in distinction from one who forges it. 
whitespot (hwit'spot), n. 1. A British iioc- 
tuid moth, Dianthcecia albimaculata. — 2. An- 
other British moth, J'Jnnychia octomacnlata. 
white-spotted (hwit'spot'' ed), a. Spotted with 
white: as, the white-spotted pinion, Calymnia 
difflnis, a British noctuid; the white-si>ottcd 
pug, Eujiitheeia albopunctata, a British geome- 
trid moth. 
whitespur (hwit'sper), n. In her., a title given 
to a certain class of esquires, from the spurs 
which they wore at their creation. Also called 
esf/uires' whitispurs. 
whitester, Whitster (hwit'ster, hwit'ster), n. 
[Early mod. E. n-hyfstare, wytsliin; whitstarre, 
< ME. whitstare; < white'^ 4- -ster.] A bleacher; 
a whitener. [Obsolete or local.] 
'whitewash (hwit'wosh), w. 1. Awash or li- 
quid composition for whitening something. 
Especially — (a) A wash for making the skin fair. 
The clergy . . . were very much taken up in reforming 
the female world ; I have heard a whole sennon against a 
whitewash. Addison, Guardian, No. 116. 
(6) A composition of quicklime and water, or, for more 
careful work, of whiting, size, and water, used for whiten- 
ing the plaster of walls, woodwork, etc., or as a freshening 
coating for any surface. It is not used for fine work. 
Some dilapidations there are to be made good; . . . but 
a little glazing, painting, whitewash, and plaster will make 
it la house) last thy time. Vanbrtigh, Relapse, v. 3. 
2. False coloring, as of character, alleged ser- 
vices, etc.; the covering up of wrong-doing or 
defects: as, the investigating committee ap- 
plied a thick coat of whitewash, [Colloq.] — 
3. In ha.>ie-ball and other games, a contest in 
which one side fails to score. [Colloq.] 
whitewash (hwit'wosh), v.; pret. and pp. ichite- 
wnshed, jipr. whitewashing. [< ichitewash, «.] I. 
Irons. 1. To cover with a white liquid composi- 
tion, as with lime and water, etc. 
There were workmen pulling down some of the old hang- 
ings and replacing them with others, altering, repairing, 
scrubbing, painting, and white-washing. 
Scott, Heart of Mid-Lothian, xliit 
2. To make white ; give a fair external appear- 
ance to ; attempt to clear from imputations ; at- 
tempt to restore the reputation of. [Colloq.] 
A white-washed Jacobite ; that is, one who, having been 
long a non-juror, . . . had lately qualifled himself to act 
as a justice, by taking the oaths to Government. 
Scott, Rob Roy, vii. 
Whitewashed, he quits the politician's strife 
At ease in mind, with pockets filled for life. 
Lowell, Tempora Mntantur. 
3. To clear by a judicial process (an insolvent 
or bankrupt) of the debts he owes. [Colloq.] 
— 4. In bosc-ball, etc. . to beat in a game in which 
the opponents fail to score. 
II. intrans. To become coated with a white 
inflorescence, as some bricks. 
The bricks made from them [clays on the Hudson River] 
usually "whitewash" or "saltpetre" upon exposure to the 
weather. C. T. Dame, Bricks, etc., ii. 44. 
whitewasher (hwit'wosh'' er), «. [< whitewash 
-I- -c;!.] One who whitewashes. 
white-water (hwit'wa''t&r), w. A disease of 
sheep. 
white- water (hwit'wa"ter), r. i. To make the 
water white with foam by lobtailing, or splash- 
ing with the flukes, asaivhale: as, "There she 
white-waters!" a cry from the masthead. 
white-wave (hwit'wav), «. A British geome- 
tric! iiKitli, as Cobera exanthemaria. 
whiteweed (hwit'wed). n. [From the color 
given bv its flowers to a field.] The common 
oxeye daisy, a composite plant, Chrysanthemum 
Leucanthemnm. Also called margxierite, and by the In- 
dians while man's weed, its introduction and rapid spread 
in America being compared to the occupation of their 
country by the palefaces- 
whitewing (hwit 'wing), n. 1. The white- 
winged or velvet scoter, sea-coot, or surf -duck, 
(Edcmia .fiisca deglandi : so called along the At- 
