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thern parts of Asia, Europe, and America. In summer it is brown, but in winter it becomes white, except the tip of the tail, which is always black.

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.

dings; especially, the gospel, or a gospel. Milton. Her funeral anthem is a glad evangel. Whittier.

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.

The act of exploiting or utilizing. J. D. Whitney.

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.

Paint used on the face. [Obs.] "Painted with French fard." J. Whitaker.

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