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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: {White elm} (Bot.), a majestic tree of North America ({Ulmus Americana}), the timber of which is much used for hubs of wheels, and for other purposes. {White ensign}. See {Saint George's ensign}, under {Saint}. {White feather}, a mark or symbol of cowardice. See {To show the white feather}, under {Feather}, n. {White fir} (Bot.), a name given to several coniferous trees of the Pacific States, as {Abies grandis}, and {A. concolor}. {White flesher} (Zo["o]l.), the ruffed grouse. See under {Ruffed}. [Canada] {White frost}. See {Hoarfrost}. {White game} (Zo["o]l.), the white ptarmigan. {White garnet} (Min.), leucite. {White grass} (Bot.), an American grass ({Leersia Virginica}) with greenish-white pale[ae]. {White grouse}. (Zo["o]l.) a The white ptarmigan. b The prairie chicken. [Local, U. S.] {White grub} (Zo["o]l.), the larva of the June bug and other allied species. These grubs eat the roots of grasses and other plants, and often do much damage. {White hake} (Zo["o]l.), the squirrel hake. See under {Squirrel}. {White hawk}, or {kite} (Zo["o]l.), the hen harrier. {White heat}, the temperature at which bodies become incandescent, and appear white from the bright light which they emit. {White hellebore} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Veratrum} ({V. album}) See {Hellebore}, 2. {White herring}, a fresh, or unsmoked herring, as distinguished from a red, or cured, herring. [R.] --Shak. {White hoolet} (Zo["o]l.), the barn owl. [Prov. Eng.] {White horses} (Naut.), white-topped waves; whitecaps. {The White House}. See under {House}. {White ibis} (Zo["o]l.), an American ibis ({Guara alba}) having the plumage pure white, except the tips of the wings, which are black. It inhabits tropical America and the Southern United States. Called also {Spanish curlew}. {White iron}. a Thin sheets of iron coated with tin; tinned iron. b A hard, silvery-white cast iron containing a large proportion of combined carbon. {White iron pyrites} (Min.), marcasite. {White land}, a tough clayey soil, of a whitish hue when dry, but blackish after rain. [Eng.] {White lark} (Zo["o]l.), the snow bunting. {White lead}. a A carbonate of lead much used in painting, and for other purposes; ceruse. b (Min.) Native lead carbonate; cerusite. {White leather}, buff leather; leather tanned with alum and salt. {White leg} (Med.), milk leg. See under {Milk}. {White lettuce} (Bot.), rattlesnake root. See under {Rattlesnake}. {White lie}. See under {Lie}. {White light}. a (Physics) Light having the different colors in the same proportion as in the light coming directly from the sun, without having been decomposed, as by passing through a prism. See the Note under {Color}, n., 1. b A kind of firework which gives a brilliant white illumination for signals, etc {White lime}, a solution or preparation of lime for whitewashing; whitewash. {White line} (Print.), a void space of the breadth of a line on a printed page; a blank line {White meat}. a Any light-colored flesh, especially of poultry. b Food made from milk or eggs, as butter, cheese, etc Driving their cattle continually with them and feeding only upon their milk and white meats. --Spenser. {White merganser} (Zo["o]l.), the smew. {White metal}. a Any one of several white alloys, as pewter, britannia, etc b (Metal.) A fine grade of copper sulphide obtained at a certain stage in copper smelting. {White miller}. (Zo["o]l.) a The common clothes moth. b A common American bombycid moth ({Spilosoma Virginica}) which is pure white with a few small black spots; -- called also {ermine moth}, and {virgin moth}. See {Woolly bear}, under {Woolly}. {White money}, silver money. {White mouse} (Zo["o]l.), the albino variety of the common mouse. {White mullet} (Zo["o]l.), a silvery mullet ({Mugil curema}) ranging from the coast of the United States to Brazil; -- called also {blue-back mullet}, and {liza}. {White nun} (Zo["o]l.), the smew; -- so called from the white crest and the band of black feathers on the back of its head, which give the appearance of a hood. {White oak}. (Bot.) See under {Oak}. {White owl}. (Zo["o]l.) a The snowy owl. b The barn owl. {White partridge} (Zo["o]l.), the white ptarmigan. {White perch}. (Zo["o]l.) a A North American fresh-water bass ({Morone Americana}) valued as a food fish. b The croaker, or fresh-water drum. c Any California surf fish. {White pine}. (Bot.) See the Note under {Pine}. {White poplar} (Bot.), a European tree ({Populus alba}) often cultivated as a shade tree in America; abele. {White poppy} (Bot.), the opium-yielding poppy. See {Poppy}. {White powder}, a kind of gunpowder formerly believed to exist, and to have the power of exploding without noise. [Obs.] A pistol charged with white powder. --Beau. & Fl {White precipitate}. (Old Chem.) See under {Precipitate}. {White rabbit}. (Zo["o]l.) a The American northern hare in its winter pelage. b An albino rabbit. {White rent}, a (Eng. Law) Formerly, rent payable in silver; -- opposed to black rent. See {Blackmail}, n., 3. b A rent, or duty, of eight pence, payable yearly by every tinner in Devon and Cornwall to the Duke of Cornwall, as lord of the soil. [Prov. Eng.] {White rhinoceros}. (Zo["o]l.) a The one-horned, or Indian, rhinoceros ({Rhinoceros Indicus}). See {Rhinoceros}. b The umhofo. {White ribbon}, the distinctive badge of certain organizations for the promotion of temperance or of moral purity; as the White-ribbon Army. {White rope} (Naut.), untarred hemp rope. {White rot}. (Bot.) a Either of several plants, as marsh pennywort and butterwort, which were thought to produce the disease called rot in sheep. b A disease of grapes. See {White rot}, under {Rot}. {White sage} (Bot.), a white, woolly undershrub ({Eurotia lanata}) of Western North America; -- called also {winter fat}. {White salmon} (Zo["o]l.), the silver salmon. {White salt}, salt dried and calcined; decrepitated salt. {White scale} (Zo["o]l.), a scale insect ({Aspidiotus Nerii}) injurious to the orange tree. See {Orange scale}, under {Orange}. {White shark} (Zo["o]l.), a species of man-eating shark. See under {Shark}. {White softening}. (Med.) See {Softening of the brain}, under {Softening}. {White spruce}. (Bot.) See {Spruce}, n., 1. {White squall} (Naut.), a sudden gust of wind, or furious blow, which comes up without being marked in its approach otherwise than by whitecaps, or white, broken water, on the surface of the sea. {White staff}, the badge of the lord high treasurer of England. --Macaulay. {White stork} (Zo["o]l.), the common European stork. {White sturgeon}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Shovelnose} d . {White sucker}. (Zo["o]l.) a The common sucker. b The common red horse ({Moxostoma macrolepidotum}). {White swelling} (Med.), a chronic swelling of the knee, produced by a strumous inflammation of the synovial membranes of the kneejoint and of the cancellar texture of the end of the bone forming the kneejoint; -- applied also to a lingering chronic swelling of almost any kind {White tombac}. See {Tombac}. {White trout} (Zo["o]l.), the white weakfish, or silver squeteague ({Cynoscion nothus}), of the Southern United States. {White vitriol} (Chem.), hydrous sulphate of zinc. See {White vitriol}, under {Vitriol}. {White wagtail} (Zo["o]l.), the common, or pied, wagtail. {White wax}, beeswax rendered white by bleaching. {White whale} (Zo["o]l.), the beluga. {White widgeon} (Zo["o]l.), the smew. {White wine}. any wine of a clear, transparent color, bordering on white, as Madeira, sherry, Lisbon, etc.; -- distinguished from wines of a deep red color, as port and Burgundy. ``White wine of Lepe.'' --Chaucer. {White witch}, a witch or wizard whose supernatural powers are supposed to be exercised for good and beneficent purposes. --Addison. --Cotton Mather. {White wolf}. (Zo["o]l.) a A light-colored wolf ({Canis laniger}) native of Thibet; -- called also {chanco}, {golden wolf}, and {Thibetan wolf}. b The albino variety of the gray wolf. {White wren} (Zo["o]l.), the willow warbler; -- so called from the color of the under parts From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wolf \Wolf\, n.; pl {Wolves}. [OE. wolf, wulf, AS wulf; akin to OS wulf, D. & G. wolf, Icel. [=u]lfr, Sw ulf, Dan. ulv, Goth. wulfs Lith. vilkas, Russ. volk', L. lupus, Gr ly`kos, Skr. v[.r]ka; also to Gr "e`lkein to draw, drag, tear in pieces. [root]286. Cf {Lupine}, a., {Lyceum}.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus {Canis} and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf ({Canis lupus}), the American gray, or timber, wolf ({C. occidentalis}), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man. 2. (Zo["o]l.) One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larv[ae] of several species of beetles and grain moths; as the bee wolf. 3. Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing especially, want starvation; as they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door. 4. A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries. 5. An eating ulcer or sore. Cf {Lupus}. [Obs.] If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side --Jer. Taylor. 6. (Mus.) a The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament. b In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration in certain notes of the scale. 7. (Textile Manuf.) A willying machine. --Knight. {Black wolf}. (Zo["o]l.) a A black variety of the European wolf which is common in the Pyrenees. b A black variety of the American gray wolf. {Golden wolf} (Zo["o]l.), the Thibetan wolf ({Canis laniger}); -- called also {chanco}. {Indian wolf} (Zo["o]l.), an Asiatic wolf ({Canis pallipes}) which somewhat resembles a jackal. Called also {landgak}. {Prairie wolf} (Zo["o]l.), the coyote. {Sea wolf}. (Zo["o]l.) See in the Vocabulary. {Strand wolf} (Zo["o]l.) the striped hyena. {Tasmanian wolf} (Zo["o]l.), the zebra wolf. {Tiger wolf} (Zo["o]l.), the spotted hyena. {To keep the wolf from the door}, to keep away poverty; to prevent starvation. See {Wolf}, 3, above. --Tennyson. {Wolf dog}. (Zo["o]l.) a The mastiff, or shepherd dog, of the Pyrenees, supposed by some authors to be one of the ancestors of the St Bernard dog. b The Irish greyhound, supposed to have been used formerly by the Danes for chasing wolves. c A dog bred between a dog and a wolf, as the Eskimo dog. {Wolf eel} (Zo["o]l.), a wolf fish. {Wolf fish} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of large voracious marine fishes of the genus {Anarrhichas}, especially the common species ({A. lupus}) of Europe and North America. These fishes have large teeth and powerful jaws. Called also {catfish}, {sea cat}, {sea wolf}, {stone biter}, and {swinefish}. {Wolf net}, a kind of net used in fishing, which takes great numbers of fish. {Wolf's peach} (Bot.), the tomato, or love apple ({Lycopersicum esculentum}). {Wolf spider} (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of running ground spiders belonging to the genus {Lycosa}, or family {Lycosid[ae]}. These spiders run about rapidly in search of their prey. Most of them are plain brown or blackish in color. See Illust. in App. {Zebra wolf} (Zo["o]l.), a savage carnivorous marsupial ({Thylacinus cynocephalus}) native of Tasmania; -- called also {Tasmanian wolf}.
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