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White with heat; heated to whiteness, or incandescence.

Whitewashed or plastered with lime. "White-limed walls." Shak.

ok; feeble; hence, cowardly; pusillanimous; dastardly. They must not be milksops, nor white-livered knights. Latimer.

A kind of food made of milk or cream, eggs, sugar, bread, etc., baked in a pot. King.

A dangerous disease of sheep.

Having an undivided hoof, as the horse.

Representing the whole figure; -- said of a picture or statue. -- n.

Thoroughly imbued with a right spirit; noble-minded; devoted.

of relatively short focus. Lenses for ordinary purposes have an angle of 50º or less. Wide-angle lenses may cover as much as 100º and are useful for photographing at short range, but the pictures appear distorted.

Fully awake; not Dickens.

See Ignis fatuus.

A rectangular rent made in cloth; -- called also winkle-hole. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

One who draws metal into wire.

A disease in the feet of a horse or other beast.

ires, as of a puppet; hence, one who operates by secret means; an intriguer. Political wire-pullers and convention packers. Lowell.

The act of pulling the wires, as of a puppet; hence, secret influence or management, especially in politics; intrigue.

Having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a long, slender, pointed shaft, without a web or barbules.

One who manufactures articles from wire.

A gun in the construction of which an inner tube (either entire or in segments) is wound with wire under tension to insure greater soundness and uniformity of resistance. In modern construction hoops and jackets are shrunk on over the wire.

Wise; knowing; skillful; sapient; erudite; prudent. Ex. xxviii. 3.