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To grow white; to turn or become white or whiter; as, the hair whitens with age; the sea whitens with foam; the trees in spring whiten with blossoms.

One who, or that which, whitens; a bleacher; a blancher; a whitewasher.

The quality or state of being white; white color, or freedom from darkness or obscurity on the surface. Chaucer.

The act or process of making or becoming white.

The American black-tailed godwit.

The finest flour made from white wheat.

The golden-eye.

One who works in tinned or galvanized iron, or white iron; a tinsmith.

A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster. [Prov. Eng.]

The Virginia deer.

The hawthorn.

e common European species (Sylvia cinerea), called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler (S. hortensis), and the lesser whitethroat (S. curruca).

Fiorin.

The spotted flycatcher; -- so called from the white color of the under parts. [Prov. Eng.]

Any wash or liquid composition for whitening something, as a wash for making the skin fair. Addison.

One who whitewashes.

A perennial composite herb (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum) with conspicuous white rays and a yellow disk, a common weed in grass lands and pastures; -- called also oxeye daisy.

The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing.

The soft and easily-worked wood of the tulip tree (Liriodendron). It is much used in cabinetwork, carriage building, etc.

Wild camomile.