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ixtures; having the color of pure snow; snowy; -- the opposite of Ant: black or dark; as, white paper; a white skin. "Pearls white." Chaucer. White as the whitest lily on a stream. Longfellow.

Something requiring much care and expense and yielding little profit; any burdensome possession. [Slang]

insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.

A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. See Carmelite.

A large mass of tough sinewy substance in the head of sperm whales, just above the upper jaw and extending in streaks into the junk above it. It resembles blubber, but contains no oil. Also, the part of the head in which it occurs.

on of compliance with certain conditions, as in regard to treatment of employees; as, the white list of the Consumers' League. [Cant]

A kind of mustard (Sinapis alba) with rough-hairy foliage, a long-beaked hispid pod, and pale seeds, which yield mustard and mustard oil. The plant is also grown for forage.

rson of the Caucasian race (6 Fed. Rep. 256). In the time of slavery in the United States white person was generally construed as a person without admixture of colored blood. In various statutes and decisions in different States since 1865 white person is construed as in effect: one not having any negro blood (Ark., Ok…

Tuberculosis, esp. of the lungs.

A woman held in involuntary confinement for purposes of prostitution; loosely, any woman forced into unwilling prostitution.

A person engaged in procuring or holding a woman or women for unwilling prostitution.

The action of one who procures or holds a woman or women for unwilling prostitution.

See White-face.

The wheatear.

lpebrosus of India, and Z. coerulescens of Australia. The eyes are encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. Called also bush creeper, and white-eyed tit.

A white mark in the forehead of a horse, descending almost to the nose; -- called also white-blaze.

A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin.

Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose (Zoöl.), the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.

A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.

White with heat; heated to whiteness, or incandescence.