Hypertext Webster Gateway: "white"

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 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) 1.7 (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: Australian writer (1912-1990) [syn: {White}, {Patrick White},
{Patrick Victor Martindale White}]
4: United States political journalist (1915-1986) [syn: {White},
{T. H. White}, {Theodore Harold White}]
5: United States architect (1853-1906) [syn: {White}, {Stanford
White}]
6: United States writer noted for his humorous essays
(1899-1985) [syn: {White}, {E. B. White}, {Elwyn Brooks
White}]
7: United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell)
founded Cornell University and served as its first
president (1832-1918) [syn: {White}, {Andrew D. White}, {Andrew
Dickson White}]
8: a tributary of the Mississippi River [syn: {White}, {White
River}]
9: (chess or checkers) the lighter pieces
10: (usually in the plural) trousers [syn: {flannel}, {gabardine},
{tweed}]
v : turn white; "This detergent will whiten your laundry" [syn:
{whiten}] [ant: {blacken}]


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