Webster's Dictionary 1828

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WHITE-CLOVER

WHITE-CLOVER, noun A small species of perennial clover, bearing white flowers. It furnishes excellent food for cattle and horses, as well as for the honey bee.

839

WHITE-CROP

WHITE-CROP, noun White crops, in agriculture, are such as lose their green color or become white in ripening, as wheat, rye, barley and oats.

840

WHITE-DARNEL

WHITE-DARNEL, noun A prolific and troublesome weed, growing among corm.

841

WHITE-EAR

WHITE-EAR, WHITE-TAIL, noun A bird, the fallow finch.

842

WHITE-FACE

WHITE-FACE, WHITE-BLAZE, noun A white mark in the forehead of a horse, descending almost to the nose.

843

WHITE-FILM

WHITE-FILM, noun A white film growing over the eyes of sheep and causing blindness.

844

WHITE-FOOT

WHITE-FOOT, noun A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin.

845

WHITE-HONEYSUCKLE

WHITE-HONEYSUCKLE, noun A name sometimes given to the white clover.

846

WHITE-HORSE-FISH

WHITE-HORSE-FISH, noun In ichthyology, the Raia aspera nostras of Willoughby, and the Raia fullonica of Linne. It has a rough spiny back, and on the tail are three rows of stron...

847

WHITE-LAND

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

848

WHITE-LEAD

WHITE-LEAD, noun 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 u...

849

WHITE-LIMED

WHITE-LIMED, adjective Whitewashed, or plastered with lime.

850

WHITE-LINE

WHITE-LINE, noun Among printers, a void space, broader than usual, left between lines.

851

WHITE-LIVERED

WHITE-LIVERED, adjective [white and liver.]1. Having a pale look; feeble; cowardly.2. Envious; malicious.

852

WHITE-MANGANESE

WHITE-MANGANESE, noun An ore of manganese; carbonated oxydized manganese.

853

WHITE-MEAT

WHITE-MEAT, noun [white and meat.] Meats made of milk, butter, cheese, eggs and the like.

854

WHITE-POPLAR

WHITE-POPLAR, noun A tree of the poplar kind, sometimes called the abele tree.

855

WHITE-POPPY

WHITE-POPPY, noun A species of poppy, sometimes cultivated fro the opium which is obtained from its juice by evaporation.

856

WHITE-POT

WHITE-POT, noun [white and pot.] A kind of food made of milk, cream, eggs, sugar, etc. baked in a pot.

857

WHITE-PRECIPITATE

WHITE-PRECIPITATE, noun Carbonate of mercury.

858

WHITE-PYRITE

WHITE-PYRITE, WHITE-PYRITES, noun [white and pyrite.] An ore of a tin-white color, passing into a brass-yellow and steel-gray, occurring in octahedral crystals, sometimes stalac...

859

WHITE-PYRITES

WHITE-PYRITE, WHITE-PYRITES noun [white and pyrite.] An ore of a tin-white color, passing into a brass-yellow and steel-gray, occurring in octahedral crystals, sometimes stalact...

860

WHITE-RENT

WHITE-RENT, noun [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.

861

WHITE-SALT

WHITE-SALT, noun Salt dried and calcined; decrepitated salt.

862

WHITE-SWELLING

WHITE-SWELLING, noun [white and swelling.] A swelling or chronic enlargement of the joints, circumscribed, without any alteration in the color of the skin, sometimes hard, somet...

863

WHITE-TAIL

WHITE-TAIL, noun A bird, the wheat-ear, a species of Motacilla.

864

WHITE-THORN

WHITE-THORN, noun A species of thorn, called also haw-thorn, of the genus Crataegus.