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te; a desolate state or condition; desolation. A day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness. Zeph. i. 15.

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

Want of a sanguineous tinge; paleness; as from terror, grief, etc. "The whiteness in thy cheek." Shak.

to; -- used with verbal substantives in -ing which begin with a consonant. This is a shortened form of the preposition an (which was used before the vowel sound); as in a hunting, a building, a begging. "Jacob, when he was a dying" Heb. xi. 21. "We'll a birding together." " It was a doing." Shak. "He burst out a laugh…

Abbreviated; abridged; shortened. [R.] "The abbreviate form." Earle.

Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.

An epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation. Ancient coins as abridgments of history. Addison.

ts 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.), numbe…

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 tenet of the Academic philosophy.

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

panies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry. Specifically: (Mus.)

An instrument for measuring the acuteness of the sense of hearing. Itard.

Sharpness or acuteness, as of a needle, wit, etc.

The reducing or lands or tenements to mortmain. See Mortmain.

loss. Nay, a far less good to man it will be found, if she must, at all adventures, be fastened upon him individually. Milton.

Affright; the state of being frightened; sudden fear or alarm. [Archaic] Passionate words or blows . . . fill the child's mind with terror and affrightment. Locke.

A hook or clasp. The feather of an ostrich, fastened in her turban by an agraffe set with brilliants. Sir W. Scott.

To; at; on; -- in OF. shortened to a-. See Ad-.

Whiteness. Specifically: (Astron.) The ratio which the light reflected from an unpolished surface bears to the total light falling upon that surface.