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onal rules of the road require vessels at anchor to carry from sunset to sunrise a single white light forward if under 150 feet in length, and if longer, two such lights, one near the stern and one forward.

A small ulcerous swelling, coming suddenly; also, a whitlow. [Obs.] Boucher.

ce. In the Scriptures the angels appear as God's messengers. O, welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings. Milton.

A native sulphate of lead. It occurs in white or yellowish transparent, prismatic crystals.

), a variety of the domestic cat with very long and silky hair, generally of the brownish white color. Called also Angola cat. See Cat. -- Angora goat (Zoöl.), a variety of the domestic goat, reared for its long silky hair, which is highly prized for manufacture.

A mineral of a white a slightly bluish color, usually massive. It is anhydrous sulphate of lime, and differs from gypsum in not containing water (whence the name).

Alliteration. [Obs.] Tyrwhitt.

The common white lily (Lilium candidum). So called because it is usually introduced by painters in pictures of the Annunciation.

One of the small white egg-shaped pupæ or cocoons of the ant, often seen in or about ant-hills, and popularly supposed to be eggs.

One of the whitish specks called aphthæ.

Roundish pearl-colored specks or flakes in the mouth, on the lips, etc., terminating in white sloughs. They are commonly characteristic of thrush.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a decoction. [Obs.] J. Whitaker.

utherly from Lyra and Cygnus and preceding the Dolphin; the Eagle. Aquila alba Etym: [L., white eagle], an alchemical name of calomel. Brande & C.

drate, isomeric with cane sugar, contained in gum arabic, from which it is extracted as a white, amorphous substance.

The treelike disposition of the gray and white nerve tissues in the cerebellum, as seen in a vertical section.

arbutus (Bot.), a creeping or trailing plant of the Heath family (Epigæa repens), having white or usually rose- colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in small axillary clusters, and appearing early in the spring; in New England known as mayflower; -- called also ground laurel. Gray.

widely used system of electric night signals in which a series of double electric lamps (white and red) is arranged vertically on a mast, and operated from a keyboard below.

Whiteness; anything that is white. The polished argent of her breast. Tennyson.

Silvery white. Gray.

A siliceous variety of calcite, or carbonate of lime, having a silvery-white, pearly luster, and a waving or curved lamellar structure.