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8 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: White \White\, a. [Compar. {Whiter}; superl. {Whitest}.] [OE. whit, AS hw?t; akin to OFries and OS hw[=i]t, D. wit, G. weiss, OHG. w[=i]z, hw[=i]z, Icel. hv[=i]tr, Sw hvit, Dan. hvid, Goth. hweits Lith. szveisti to make bright, Russ. sviet' light, Skr. ?v?ta white, ?vit to be bright. ???. Cf {Wheat}, {Whitsunday}.] 1. Reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum combined; not tinted with any of the proper colors or their mixtures; having the color of pure snow; snowy; -- the opposite of {black} or {dark}; as white paper; a white skin. ``Pearls white.'' --Chaucer. White as the whitest lily on a stream. --Longfellow. 2. Destitute of color, as in the cheeks, or of the tinge of blood color; pale; pallid; as white with fear. Or whispering with white lips, ``The foe! They come! they come!'' --Byron. 3. Having the color of purity; free from spot or blemish, or from guilt or pollution; innocent; pure. White as thy fame, and as thy honor clear. --Dryden. No whiter page than Addison's remains. --Pope. 4. Gray, as from age; having silvery hair; hoary. Your high engendered battles 'gainst a head So old and white as this --Shak. 5. Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like fortunate; happy; favorable. On the whole, however, the dominie reckoned this as one of the white days of his life. --Sir W. Scott. 6. Regarded with especial favor; favorite; darling. Come forth, my white spouse. --Chaucer. I am his white boy, and will not be gullet. --Ford. Note: White is used in many self-explaining compounds, as white-backed, white-bearded, white-footed. {White alder}. (Bot.) See {Sweet pepper bush}, under {Pepper}. {White ant} (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of social pseudoneuropterous insects of the genus {Termes}. These insects are very abundant in tropical countries, and form large and complex communities consisting of numerous asexual workers of one or more kinds, of large-headed asexual individuals called soldiers, of one or more queens (or fertile females) often having the body enormously distended by the eggs, and at certain seasons of numerous winged males, together with the larv[ae] and pup[ae] of each kind in various stages of development. Many of the species construct large and complicated nests, sometimes in the form of domelike structures rising several feet above the ground and connected with extensive subterranean galleries and chambers. In their social habits they closely resemble the true ants. They feed upon animal and vegetable substances of various kinds, including timber, and are often very destructive to buildings and furniture. {White arsenic} (Chem.), arsenious oxide, {As2O3}, a substance of a white color, and vitreous adamantine luster, having an astringent, sweetish taste. It is a deadly poison. {White bass} (Zo["o]l.), a fresh-water North American bass ({Roccus chrysops}) found in the Great Likes. {White bear} (Zo["o]l.), the polar bear. See under {Polar}. {White blood cell}. (Physiol.) See {Leucocyte}. {White brand} (Zo["o]l.), the snow goose. {White brass}, a white alloy of copper; white copper. {White campion}. (Bot.) a A kind of catchfly ({Silene stellata}) with white flowers. b A white-flowered Lychnis ({Lychnis vespertina}). {White canon} (R. C. Ch.), a Premonstratensian. {White caps}, the members of a secret organization in various of the United States, who attempt to drive away or reform obnoxious persons by lynch-law methods. They appear masked in white. {White cedar} (Bot.), an evergreen tree of North America ({Thuja occidentalis}), also the related {Cupressus thyoides}, or {Cham[ae]cyparis sph[ae]roidea}, a slender evergreen conifer which grows in the so-called cedar swamps of the Northern and Atlantic States. Both are much valued for their durable timber. In California the name is given to the {Libocedrus decurrens}, the timber of which is also useful, though often subject to dry rot. --Goodale. The white cedar of Demerara, Guiana, etc., is a lofty tree ({Icica, or Bursera, altissima}) whose fragrant wood is used for canoes and cabinetwork, as it is not attacked by insect. {White cell}. (Physiol.) See {Leucocyte}. {White cell-blood} (Med.), leucocyth[ae]mia. {White clover} (Bot.), a species of small perennial clover bearing white flowers. It furnishes excellent food for cattle and horses, as well as for the honeybee. See also under {Clover}. {White copper}, a whitish alloy of copper. See {German silver}, under {German}. {White copperas} (Min.), a native hydrous sulphate of iron; coquimbite. {White coral} (Zo["o]l.), an ornamental branched coral ({Amphihelia oculata}) native of the Mediterranean. {White corpuscle}. (Physiol.) See {Leucocyte}. {White cricket} (Zo["o]l.), the tree cricket. {White crop}, a crop of grain which loses its green color, or becomes white, in ripening, as wheat, rye, barley, and oats, as distinguished from a green crop, or a root crop. {White currant} (Bot.), a variety of the common red currant, having white berries. {White daisy} (Bot.), the oxeye daisy. See under {Daisy}. {White damp}, a kind of poisonous gas encountered in coal mines. --Raymond. {White elephant} (Zo["o]l.), a whitish, or albino, variety of the Asiatic elephant. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: White \White\, n. 1. The color of pure snow; one of the natural colors of bodies, yet not strictly a color, but a composition of all colors; the opposite of black; whiteness. See the Note under {Color}, n., 1. Finely attired in a of white. --Shak. 2. Something having the color of snow; something white, or nearly so as the white of the eye. 3. Specifically, the central part of the butt in archery, which was formerly painted white; the center of a mark at which a missile is shot. 'T was I won the wager, though you hit the white. --Shak. 4. A person with a white skin; a member of the white, or Caucasian, races of men. 5. A white pigment; as Venice white. 6. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to {Pieris}, and allied genera in which the color is usually white. See {Cabbage butterfly}, under {Cabbage}. {Black and white}. See under {Black}. {Flake white}, {Paris white}, etc See under {Flack}, {Paris}, etc {White of a seed} (Bot.), the albumen. See {Albumen}, 2. {White of egg}, the viscous pellucid fluid which surrounds the yolk in an egg, particularly in the egg of a fowl. In a hen's egg it is alkaline, and contains about 86 per cent of water and 14 per cent of solid matter, the greater portion of which is egg albumin. It likewise contains a small amount of globulin, and traces of fats and sugar, with some inorganic matter. Heated above 60[deg] C. it coagulates to a solid mass, owing to the albumin which it contains. --Parr. {White of the eye} (Anat.), the white part of the ball of the eye surrounding the transparent cornea. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: White \White\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Whited}; p. pr & vb n. {Whiting}.] [AS. hw[=i]tan.] To make white; to whiten; to whitewash; to bleach. Whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of . . . uncleanness. --Matt. xxiii. 27. So as no fuller on earth can white them --Mark. ix 3. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wine \Wine\, n. [OE. win, AS win, fr L. vinum (cf. Icel. v[=i]n; all from the Latin); akin to Gr o'i^nos, ?, and E. withy. Cf {Vine}, {Vineyard}, {Vinous}, {Withy}.] 1. The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it to ferment. ``Red wine of Gascoigne.'' --Piers Plowman. Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. --Prov. xx 1. Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine. --Milton. Note: Wine is essentially a dilute solution of ethyl alcohol, containing also certain small quantities of ethers and ethereal salts which give character and bouquet. According to their color, strength, taste, etc., wines are called {red}, {white}, {spirituous}, {dry}, {light}, {still}, etc 2. A liquor or beverage prepared from the juice of any fruit or plant by a process similar to that for grape wine; as currant wine; gooseberry wine; palm wine. 3. The effect of drinking wine in excess; intoxication. Noah awoke from his wine. --Gen. ix 24. {Birch wine}, {Cape wine}, etc See under {Birch}, {Cape}, etc {Spirit of wine}. See under {Spirit}. {To have drunk wine of ape} or {wine ape}, to be so drunk as to be foolish. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {Wine acid}. (Chem.) See {Tartaric acid}, under {Tartaric}. [Colloq.] {Wine apple} (Bot.), a large red apple, with firm flesh and a rich, vinous flavor. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: white adj 1: being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light; "as white as fresh snow"; "a bride's white dress" [syn: {achromatic}] [ant: {black}] 2: of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration; "voting patterns within the white population" [ant: {black}] 3: (of wine) almost colorless; "white wines such as chardonnays or rieslings"; "a white burgundy"; "white Italian wines" [ant: {red}] 4: free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied; "in shining white armor" 5: marked by the presence of snow; "a white Christmas"; "the white hills of a northern winter" [syn: {snowy}] 6: restricted to whites only; "under segregation there were even white restrooms and white drinking fountains"; "a lily-white movement which would expel Negroes from the organization" [syn: {lily-white}] 7: glowing white with heat; "white flames"; a white-hot center of the fire" [syn: {white-hot}] 8: benevolent; without malicious intent; "white magic"; "a white lie"; "that's white of you" 9: of a surface; not written or printed on "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins" [syn: {blank}, {clean}] 10: (of coffee) having cream or milk added 11: dressed (or especially habited) in white; "white nuns" 12: (of hair) having lost its color; "the white hairs of old age" [syn: {whitened}] 13: ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock"; "lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley; "lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage" [syn: {ashen}, {blanched}, {bloodless}, {livid}] 14: of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets; "white nights" n 1: a member of the Caucasoid race [syn: {White}, {white person}, {Caucasian}] 2: the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black) [syn: {whiteness}] [ant: {black}] 3: a tributary of the Mississippi River [syn: {White}, {White River}] 4: (chess or checkers) the lighter-colored pieces 5: (usually in the plural) trousers [syn: {flannel}, {gabardine}, {tweed}] v : turn white; "This detergent will whiten your laundry" [syn: {whiten}] [ant: {blacken}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: White, GA (town, FIPS 82468) Location: 34.28245 N, 84.74766 W Population (1990): 542 (220 housing units) Area: 2.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 30184 White, PA Zip code(s): 15490 White, SD (city, FIPS 70940) Location: 44.43338 N, 96.64542 W Population (1990): 536 (201 housing units) Area: 1.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 57276 From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: White a symbol of purity (2 Chr. 5:12; Ps 51:7; Isa. 1:18; Rev. 3:18; 7:14). Our Lord, at his transfiguration, appeared in raiment "white as the light" (Matt. 17:2, etc.). From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: WHITE, adj and n. Black.
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