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The common qua(Colinus, or Ortyx, Virginianus); -- so called from its note.

As white as cream.

Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters, as from about 30th Street about 50th Street; -- so called from its brilliant illumination at night.

ight and elegant style developed in England under George III., chiefly by Messrs. A.Heppelwhite & Co.

See Linnet. Tennyson.

The substance of the medullary sheath.

White as snow; very white. "Snow-white and rose-red" Chaucer.

A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in oil, reheated to between 370º and 670º C., and cooled in air.…

A vinelike plant (Vitis Caribæa) growing in parched districts in the West Indies, and containing a great amount of sap which is sometimes used for quenching thirst.

The white polar (Populus alba). Six abeles i' the churchyard grow. Mrs. Browning.

m its color or figure. -- Abstract terms, those which express abstract ideas, as beauty, whiteness, roundness, without regarding any object in which they exist; or abstract terms are the names of orders, genera or species of things, in which there is a combination of similar qualities. -- Abstract numbers (Math.), nu…

ate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects.

A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute.

A white crystalline solid, from ammonia by replacement of an equivalent of hydrogen by acetyl.

An organic base, in the form of a white powder, obtained from Aconitum lycoctonum. Eng. Cyc.

jective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely white.

One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.

A round white staylace. Beck.

The small white European heron. See Egret.

A compact variety or sulphate of lime, or gypsum, of fine texture, and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray. It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc.