Search the Dictionary

te from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects.

A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute.

A white crystalline solid, from ammonia by replacement of an equivalent of hydrogen by acetyl.

An organic base, in the form of a white powder, obtained from Aconitum lycoctonum. Eng. Cyc.

al angles of a pediment. Acroteria are also sometimes placed upon the gables in Gothic architecture. J. H. Parker.

The act of adhibiting; application; use. Whitaker.

ective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely white.

Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls.

One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.

red and thirty years, and never age for all that. Holland. I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-colored, hair here and there. Landor.

A round white staylace. Beck.

The small white European heron. See Egret.

eapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a fox, or at a target.

A compact variety or sulphate of lime, or gypsum, of fine texture, and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray. It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc.

A white crystalline base, C3H7NO2, derived from aldehyde ammonia.

aching danger; agitated; disturbed; as, an alarmed neighborhood; an alarmed modesty. The white pavilions rose and fell On the alarmed air. Longfellow.

f sorrow, pity, or apprehension of evil; -- in old writers, sometimes followed by day or white; alas the day, like alack a day, or alas the white.

A vestment of white linen, reaching to the feet, an enveloping the person; -- in the Roman Catholic church, worn by those in holy orders when officiating at mass. It was formerly worn, at least by clerics, in daily life.

rch those who had been baptized on Easter eve laid aside on the following Saturday their white albs which had been put on after baptism.

A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta- percha by the action of alcohol or ether.