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Filled with white flakes; mothery; -- said vinegar when containing mother. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white.

A soft, white or colored silk fabric, of a gauzy texture and wavy appearance, used for ladies' scarfs, shawls, bonnet trimmings, etc.; -- called also Oriental crape. De Colange.

Wine produced on the island of Capri, commonly a light, dry, white wine.

antities in butter, cocoanut oil, etc., united with glycerin; they are colorless oils, or white crystalline solids, of an unpleasant odor like that of goats or sweat.

the hair on the crown reflexed and resembling a monk's cowl, the rest being of a grayish white; -- called also capucine monkey, weeper, sajou, sapajou, and sai.

A white crystallized substance, C12H8NH, derived from aniline and other amines.

A white crystalline substance, C9H6N.OH, of acid properties derived from one of the amido cinnamic acids.

ur Lady of Mount Carmel) established on Mount Carmel, in Syria, in the twelfth century; a White Friar.

Dianthus (D. Caryophyllus) or pink, having very beautiful flowers of various colors, esp. white and usually a rich, spicy scent.

A variety of chalcedony, of a clear, deep red, flesh red, or reddish white color. It is moderately hard, capable of a good polish, and often used for seals.

A white crystalline nitrogenous substance, found in extract of meat, and related to xanthin.

s in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract. The silver brook . . . pours the white cascade. Longjellow. Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade. Cawper.

A white, crystallizable, bitter substance extracted from oil of cascarilla.

A kind of fine, hard, white or mottled soap, made with olive and soda; also, a soap made in imitation of the above-described soap.

A white crystalline substance obtained from castoreum.

ecies are the Catalpa bignonioides, a large, ornamental North American tree, with spotted white flowers and long cylindrical pods, and the C. speciosa, of the Mississipi valley; -- called also Indian bean.

One of the tannic acids, extracted from catechu as a white, crystaline substance; -- called also catechuic acid, and catechuin.

Of or pertaining to the white races of mankind, of whom the people about Mount Caucasus were formerly taken as the type.

A kind of noseband used in breaking and training horses. [Written also caveson, causson.] White.