Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WHITE-PYR'ITE, or WHITE-PY-RI'TES, 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'STER, is.

A bleacher. [Local.]

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, n. [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.

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 Cratægus.

WHITE-THROAT, n.

A small bird that frequents gardens and hedges, the Motacilla sylvia. – Linnæus. – 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'ER, n.

One who whitewashes the walls or plastering of apartments.

WHITE'-WASH-ING, ppr.

Overspreading or washing with a white liquid composition.

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.

WHITH'ER, 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 white.]

1. A small sea fish, the Asellus mollis or albus, a species of Gadus. – Cyc.
2. The same as Spanish white, – which see.