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A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.

White with heat; heated to whiteness, or incandescence.

Whitewashed or plastered with lime. "White-limed walls." Shak.

look; feeble; hence, cowardly; pusillanimous; dastardly. They must not be milksops, nor white-livered knights. Latimer.

A kind of food made of milk or cream, eggs, sugar, bread, etc., baked in a pot. King.

A dangerous disease of sheep.

The canvasback.

in seasons on the coasts of China and Japan, and used in the same manner as the European whitebait.

The common beam tree of England (Pyrus Aria); -- so called from the white, woolly under surface of the leaves.

An old man; a graybeard.

The American widgeon, or baldpate.

The American coot.

Same as Whitlow grass, under Whitlow.

A favorite. [Obs.] See White, a., 6. "One of God's whiteboys." Bunyan.

The conduct or principle of the Whiteboys.

The European redstart; -- so called from its white forehead.

The skin of a newborn seal; also, the seal itself. [Sealers' Cant]

rmis) is abundant in the Great Lakes, and in other lakes farther north. Called also lake whitefish, and Oswego bass.

A whitlow. [Obs.] Holland.

The blue-winged snow goose.