Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WHITE-LAND, n.

A name which the English give to a tough clayey soil, of a whitish hue when dry, but blackish after rain. Cyc.

WHITE-LEAD, n.

A carbonate of lead, much used in painting. It is prepared by exposing sheets of lead to the fumes of an acid, usually vinegar, and suspending them in the air until the surface becomes incrusted with a white coat which is the substance in question. D. Olmsted.

WHITE-LIM-ED, a.

Whitewashed, or plastered with lime.

WHITE-LINE, n.

Among printers, a void space, broader than usual, left between lines. Cyc.

WHITE-LIV'ER-ED, a. [white and liver.]

1. Having a pale look; feeble; cowardly.
2. Envious; malicious.

WHITE-LY, adv.

Coining near to white. [Not used.] Shak.

WHITE-MAN'GA-NESE, n.

An ore of manganese; carbonated oxydized manganese.

WHITE-MEAT, n. [white and meat.]

Meats made of milk, butter, cheese, eggs and the like. Spenser.

WHIT-EN, v.i. hwi'tn.

To make white; to bleach; to blanch; as, to whiten cloth.

WHIT-EN, v.i.

To grow white; to turn or become white. The hair whitens with age; the sea whitens with foam; the trees-in spring whiten with blossoms.

WHIT-EN-ED, pp.

Made white; bleached.

WHIT-EN-ER, n.

One who bleaches or makes white.

WHITE-NESS, n.

1. The state of being white; white color, or freedom from any darkness or obscurity on the surface.
2. Paleness; want of a sanguineous tinge in the face. Shak.
3. Purity; cleanness; freedom from stain or blemish. Dryden.

WHITE-POPLAR, n.

A tree of the poplar kind, sometimes called the abele tree; Populus albs.

WHITE-POPPY, n.

A species of poppy, sometimes cultivated for the opium which is obtained from its juice by evaporation; Papaver somniferum.

WHITE-POT, n. [white and pot.]

A kind of food made of milk, cream, eggs, sugar. &c., baked in a pot. King.

WHITE-PRE-CIP'IT-ATE, n.

A compound of ammonia and corrosive sublimate; or of metallic mercury with nitrogen and hydrogen. It is a white insoluble powder, muck used in medicine as an external application. It is some. times called white oils of mercury.

WHITE-PYRITE, or WHITE-PY-RITES, n. [white and pyrites; Fr. sulfure blanc.]

An ore of a tin-white color, passing into a brass-yellow nod steel-gray, occurring in octahedral crystals, sometimes stalactitical and botryoidal. It contains 46 parts of iron, and 54 of sulphur. Cyc.

WHIT-ER, a. comp.

More white.

WHITE-RENT, n. [white and rent.]

In Devon and Cornwall, a rent or duty of eight pence, payable yearly by every tinner to the duke of Cornwall, as lord of the soil. Cyc.

WHITES, n.

The fluor albus, a disease of females.

WHITE-SALT, n.

Salt dried and calcined; decrepitated salt.

WHIT-EST, a. superl.

Most white.

WHITE-STONE, n.

In geology, the weiss stein of Werner, and the eurite of some geologists; a species of rocks composed essentially of feldspar, but containing mica and other mineral. Cyc.

WHITE-SWELL-ING, u. [white and swelling.]

A swelling or chronic enlargement of the joints, circumscribed, without any alteration in the color of the skin, sometimes hard, sometimes yielding to pressure, sometimes indolent, but usually painful. Cyc.