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A sea eagle, esp. the European white-tailed sea eagle (Haliæetus albicilla).

A white crystalline alkaloid, extracted from sassy bark (Erythrophleum Guineense).

f North America, some species of which produce beautiful yellow, orange, rose-colored, or white flowers; the California poppy.

A white waxy solid, C16H33.OH; -- called also cetylic alcohol. See Cetylic alcohol, under Cetylic.

A white, crystalline hydrocarbon, regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, obtained in heavy oil of wine, the residue left after making ether; -- formerly called also concrete oil of wine.

To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants.

A genus of South American amaryllidaceous plants with large and beautiful white blossoms.

A growing hot; a white or glowing heat; incandescence. [R.]

White or glowing with heat. [R.] Ure.

oined to verbs.] "The voice exceeding loud." Keble. His raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow. Mark ix. 3. The Genoese were exceeding powerful by sea. Sir W. Raleigh.

view leniently or to overlook; to pardon. And in our own (excuse some courtly stains.) No whiter page than Addison remains. Pope.

One of a breed of horned sheep of Devonshire, England, having white legs and face and black nostrils. They are esp. valuable for mutton.

Free from spots, specks, dirt, or imperfection; unblemished; clean; pure. A fair white linen cloth. Book of Common Prayer.

deer (Cervus dama), much smaller than the red deer. In summer both sexes are spotted with white. It is common in England, where it is often domesticated in the parks.

agination. [R.] A pert or bluff important wight, Whose brain is fanciless, whose blood is white. Armstrong.

Civered with a sort of white, mealy powder, as the leaves of some poplars, and the body of certain insects; mealy.

One who describes the fauna of country; a naturalist. Gilbert White.

bbons; something worn as a token of affection; as, a marriage favor is a bunch or knot of white ribbons or white flowers worn at a wedding. Wear thou this favor for me, and stick it in thy cap. Shak.

hip throws off from her bows. (b) To make one's self conspicuous.[Colloq.] -- To show the white feather, to betray cowardice, -- a white feather in the tail of a cock being considered an indication that he is not of the true game breed.

ed by an adjective describing the kind of sensation. Blind men say black feels rough, and white feels smooth. Dryden. To feel after, to search for; to seek to find; to seek as a person groping in the dark. "If haply they might feel after him, and find him." Acts xvii. 27. - To feel of, to examine by touching.…