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Instability; inconstancy. [Obs.] The vain shittlenesse of an unconstant head. Baret.

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

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

A salt of sulphurous acid.

A salt of sulphophosphorous acid.

Of or pertaining to Tahiti, an island in the Pacific Ocean. -- n.

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.]

To that place; -- opposed to Ant: hither. This city is near; . . . O, let me escape thither. Gen. xix. 20. Where I am, thither ye can not come. John vii. 34.

To that point; so far. [Obs.]

To ward that place; in that direction. They shall ask the way to Zion, with their faces thitherward. Jer. l. 5.

The varnish tree of Burmah (Melanorrhoea usitatissima).

Tracheitis.

A delicate, hairlike siliceous spicule, found in certain sponges. Trichite sheaf (Zoöl.), one of the small sheaflike fascicles of slender setæ characteristic of certain sponges. See Illust. under Spicule.

A wheel-like joint of the stem of a fossil crinoid.

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

To free from being hitched, or as if from being hitched; to unfasten; to loose; as, to unhitch a horse, or a trace.

A glucoside extracted from the leaves of a certain plant (Urechitis suberecta) as a bitter white crystalline substance.

A poisonous glucoside found accompanying urechitin, and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance.

A mineral occurring in small six-sided tabular crystals of a green or yellow color. It is a hydrous vanadate of copper and lime.