Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WHITE-DARN-EL, n.

A prolific and troublesome weed, growing among corn. – Cyc.

WHITE'-EAR, or WHITE'-TAIL, n.

A bird, the fallow finch.

WHITE'-FACE, or WHITE'-BLAZE, n.

A white mark in the forehead of a horse, descending almost to the nose. – Cyc.

WHITE'-FILM, n.

A white film growing over the eyes of sheep and causing blindness. – Cyc.

WHITE'-FISH, n.

A small fish, the Clupea Menhaden, caught in immense quantities and used for manuring land on the southern border of Connecticut, along the sound.

WHITE-FOOT, n.

A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin. – Cyc.

WHITE-HON'EY-SUCK-LE, n.

A name sometimes given to the white clover. – Cyc.

WHITE-HORSE'-FISH, n.

In ichthyology, the Raia aspera nostras of Willoughby, and the Raia fullonica of Linnæus. It has a rough spiny back, and on the tail are three rows of strong spines. It grows to the size of the skate. – Cyc.

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.¹ [hwi'tn.]

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

WHIT'EN, v.i.²

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-POP'LAR, n.

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

WHITE-POP'PY, 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, much used in medicine as an external application. It is sometimes called white calx of mercury.