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To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow.

To mark or paint with, or as with, raddle. "Whitened and raddled old women." Thackeray.

tin, with sometimes a small proportion of arsenic, antimony, or zinc added to improve the whiteness.

In a successive manner. The whiteness, at length, changed successively into blue, indigo, and violet. Sir I. Newton.

A species of gause, or very silk. The smoke of sulphur . . . is commonly used by women to whiten tiffanies. Sir T. Browne.

their sides, in the form of scales, which, being masticated and mixed with saliva, become whitened and tenacious. Its natural color is pale or dull yellow.

bodies, yet not strictly a color, but a composition of all colors; the opposite of black; whiteness. See the Note under Color, n., 1. Finely attired in a of white. Shak.

White with heat; heated to whiteness, or incandescence.

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

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

A whitener; a bleacher; a whitester. [Obs.] The whitsters in Datchet mead. Shak.

metimes written also weekwam.] Very spacious was the wigwam, Made of deerskin dressed and whitened, With the gods of the Dacotahs Drawn and painted on its curtains. Longfellow.