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Of, pertaining to, or observed at, Whitsuntide; as, Whitsun week; Whitsun Tuesday; Whitsun pastorals.

ch, those who had been newly baptized appeared at church between Easter and Pentecost in white garments.

The week commencing with Whitsunday, esp. the first three days -- Whitsunday, Whitsun Monday, and Whitsun Tuesday; the time of Pentecost. R. of Gloucester.

Either of two shrubs (Viburnum Lantana, and V. Opulus), so called on account of their whitish branches.

The curlew. [Prov. Eng.]

Same as Whittle shawl, below. Whittle shawl, a kind of fine woolen shawl, originally and especially a white one.

Chips made by one who whittles; shavings cut from a stick with a knife.

A weasel. [Scot.]

The day following Whitmonday; -- called also Whitsun Tuesday.

Same as Whetile.

A prejectile used in the Whitworth gun.

A form of rifled cannon and small arms invented by Sir Joseph Whitworth, of Manchester, England.

Of a color between white and brown. Pegge.

A tribe of Indians native of the region between the Arkansas and Red rivers. They are related to the Pawnees. See Pawnees.

A zoöphyte. [R.]

The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column.

Abdicating; renouncing; -- followed by of. Monks abdicant of their orders. Whitlock.

The white polar (Populus alba). Six abeles i' the churchyard grow. Mrs. Browning.

e; irregularity; monstrosity. "An abnormity . . . like a calf born with two heads." Mrs. Whitney.

its color or figure. -- Abstract terms, those which express abstract ideas, as beauty, whiteness, roundness, without regarding any object in which they exist; or abstract terms are the names of orders, genera or species of things, in which there is a combination of similar qualities. -- Abstract numbers (Math.), num…