Whistly
Whist″ly (?), adv. In a whist manner; silently.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Whit
Whit (?), n. [OE. wight, wiht, AS. wiht a creature, a thing. See Wight, and cf. Aught, Naught.] The smallest part or particle imaginable; a bit; a jot; an iota; — generally used...
White
White (?), a. [Compar.Whiter (?); superl.Whitest.] [OE. whit, AS. hw�t; akin to OFries. and OS. hwīt, D. wit, G. weiss, OHG. wīz, hwīz, Icel. hvītr, Sw. hvit, Dan. hvid, Goth. h...
White (2)
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...
White (3)
White, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Whited; p. pr. & vb. n.Whiting.] [AS. hwītan.] To make white; to whiten; to whitewash; to bleach.Whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outwa...
White elephant
White elephant. Something requiring much care and expense and yielding little profit; any burdensome possession.
White fly
White fly. Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.
White friar
White″ fri′ar (?). (Eccl.) A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. See Carmelite.
White horse
White horse. A large mass of tough sinewy substance in the head of sperm whales, just above the upper jaw and extending in streaks into the junk above it. It resembles blubber, ...
White list
White list. (a) A list of business concerns regarded as worthy of patronage by reason of compliance with certain conditions, as in regard to treatment of employees; as, the whit...
White mustard
White mustard. A kind of mustard (Sinapis alba) with rough-hairy foliage, a long-beaked hispid pod, and pale seeds, which yield mustard and mustard oil. The plant is also grown ...
White person
White person. A person of the Caucasian race (6 Fed. Rep. 256). In the time of slavery in the United States white person was generally construed as a person without admixture of...
White plague
White plague. Tuberculosis, esp. of the lungs.
White slave
White slave. A woman held in involuntary confinement for purposes of prostitution; loosely, any woman forced into unwilling prostitution.
White slaver
White slaver. A person engaged in procuring or holding a woman or women for unwilling prostitution.
White slaving
White slaving. The action of one who procures or holds a woman or women for unwilling prostitution.
White-blaze
White″–blaze′ (?), n. See White-face.
White-ear
White″–ear′ (?), n.(Zoöl.) The wheatear.
White-eye
White″–eye′ (?), n.(Zoöl.) Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops palpebrosus of India, and Z. cœrulescens of Australia. The ...
White-face
White″–face′ (?), n. A white mark in the forehead of a horse, descending almost to the nose; — called also white-blaze.
White-foot
White″–foot′ (?), n.(Far.) A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin.
White-fronted
White′–front″ed (?), a. Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur.White-fronted goose(Zoöl.), the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.
White-heart
White″–heart′ (?), n.(Bot.) A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
White-hot
White″–hot′ (?), a. White with heat; heated to whiteness, or incandescence.
White-limed
White″–limed′ (?), a. Whitewashed or plastered with lime. “White-limed walls.” Shak.
White-livered
White″–liv′ered (?), a. Having a pale look; feeble; hence, cowardly; pusillanimous; dastardly.They must not be milksops, nor white-livered knights. Latimer.
White-pot
White″–pot′ (?), n. A kind of food made of milk or cream, eggs, sugar, bread, etc., baked in a pot. King.