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The substance of the medullary sheath.

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

o some indeterminate place; to some place or other. Driven by the winds of temptation somewhither. Barrow.

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.…

The lapwing; -- called also teewheep. [Prov. Eng.]

Words imitative of the notes of the owl. Thy tu-whits are lulled, I wot, Thy tu-whoos of yesternight. Tennyson.

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.

Abdicating; renouncing; -- followed by of. Monks abdicant of their orders. Whitlock.

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

pe; irregularity; monstrosity. "An abnormity . . . like a calf born with two heads." Mrs. Whitney.

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.

The act of adhibiting; application; use. Whitaker.

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.

dred and thirty years, and never age for all that. Holland. I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-colored, hair here and there. Landor.

A round white staylace. Beck.