Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WHITE-TAIL, n.

A bird, the white-ear, a species of Motscilla.

WHITE-THORN, n.

A species of thorn, called also hawthorn, of the genus Craraegus.

WHITE-THROAT, n.

A small bird that frequents gardens and hedges, the Motacilla sylvia. Linnaus. Cyc. Ed. Encyc.

WHITE-VIT'RI-OL, n.

In mineralogy, sulphate of zink, a natural salt. Cyc.

WHITE-WASH, n. [white and wash.]

1. A wash or liquid composition for whitening something; a wash for making: the skin fair.
2. A composition of lime and water, used for whitening the plaster of walls, &c.

WHITE-WASH, v.t.

1. To cover with a white liquid composition, as with lime and water, &c.
2. To make white; to give a fair external appearance.

WHITE-WASH-ED, pp.

Covered or overspread with a white liquid composition.

WHITE-WASH-ING, ppr.

Overspreading or washing with a white liquid composition.

WHITE-WASIPER, n.

One who whitewashes the walls or plastering of apartments.

WHITE-WA-TER, n.

A disease of sheep of a dangerous kind. Cyc.

WHITE-WAX, n.

Bleached wax.

WHITE-WINE, n.

Any wine of a clear transparent color, bordering on white, as Madeira, Sherry, Lisbon, &c.; opposed to wine of a deep red color, as Port and Burgundy.

WHITE-WOOD, n.

A species of timber tree growing in North America, the Liriodendron or tulip tree. Mease. The name of certain species of Bignonia. Lee.

WHITHER, adv. [Sax. hwyder.]

1. To what place, interrogatively. Whither goest thou? Whither away so fast? Shak.
2. To what place, absolutely. I stray'd, I knew not whither. Milton.
3. To which place, relatively. Whither when as they came, they fell at words. Spenser.
4. To what point or degree.
5. Whithersoever.

WHITH-ER-SO-EV'ER, adv. [whither and soever.]

To whatever place. I will go whithersoever you lead.

WHIT-ING, n. [from while.]

1. A small sea fish, the Asellus monis or cabus, a species of Gades. Cyc.
2. The same as Spanish white,—which see.

WHIT-ISH, a. [from white.]

Somewhat white; white in a moderate degree. Boyle.

WHIT-ISH-NESS, n. [supra.]

The quality of being some. what white. Boyle.

WHIT'LEATH-ER, [white and leather.]

Leather dressed with alum, remarkable for its toughness. Chapman. In common use, the ligaments of animals, when in food.

WHIT-LOW, n. [Sax. hail, white, and low, a flame. Qu.]

1. In surgery, paronychia, a swelling or inflammation about the nails or ends of the fingers, or affecting one or more of the phalanges of the fingers, generally terminating in an abscess there are four or five varieties of this swelling. 1. The culaneous oparonychia, which raises the cuticle, forming a kind of vesicle tilled with a limpid serum, or bloody fluid. 2. The subcutaneous paronychia, a tumor attended with acute pain. It is seated in the cellular membrane under the skin. 3. The subungual paronychia, which occurs under the nail. It commences with inflammatory symptoms, but it is less painful than the former. 4. There is also the paranychia of the periosteam, and the paronychia of the tendons or theca. Cyc.
2. In sheep, the whitlow is a disease of the feet, of an inflammatory kind. It occurs round the hoof, where an acrid matter is collected, which ought to be discharged. Cyc.

WHITLOW-GRASS, n.

1. Mountain knot-grass, a species of Illecebrum, [L. paronychia.] Cyc.
2. A name given to certain species of Draba. Cyc. The rue-leaved whitlow-grass is a species of Saxifraga. Lee.

WHIT'SOUR, n.

A sort of apple.

WHIT'STER,

A whitener; a bleacher. [Obs.] Shak.

WHIT'SUL, n.

A provincial name of milk, sour milk, cheese curds and butter. Carew.

WHITSUN-TIDE, n. [white, Sunday, and tide.]

The feast or season of Pentecost; so called, it is said, because in the primitive church, those who had been newly baptized appeared at church between Easter and Pentecost in white garments. Johnson. Cyc.