white

white
    adj 1: being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness;
           having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all
           incident light; "as white as fresh snow"; "a bride's
           white dress" [ant: {black}]
    2: of or belonging to a racial group having light skin
       coloration; "voting patterns within the white population"
       [ant: {black}]
    3: free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied; "in shining
       white armor"
    4: marked by the presence of snow; "a white Christmas"; "the
       white hills of a northern winter" [syn: {white}, {snowy}]
    5: restricted to whites only; "under segregation there were even
       white restrooms and white drinking fountains"; "a lily-white
       movement which would expel Negroes from the organization"
       [syn: {white}, {lily-white}]
    6: glowing white with heat; "white flames"; "a white-hot center
       of the fire" [syn: {white}, {white-hot}]
    7: benevolent; without malicious intent; "that's white of you"
    8: (of a surface) not written or printed on; "blank pages";
       "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white
       margins" [syn: {blank}, {clean}, {white}]
    9: (of coffee) having cream or milk added
    10: (of hair) having lost its color; "the white hairs of old
        age" [syn: {white}, {whitened}]
    11: anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned
        ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak
        with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock";
        "lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley; "lips
        white with terror"; "a face white with rage" [syn: {ashen},
        {blanched}, {bloodless}, {livid}, {white}]
    12: of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely
        sets; "white nights"
    n 1: a member of the Caucasoid race [syn: {White}, {White
         person}, {Caucasian}]
    2: the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest
       lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black) [syn:
       {white}, {whiteness}] [ant: {black}, {blackness}, {inkiness}]
    3: United States jurist appointed chief justice of the United
       States Supreme Court in 1910 by President Taft; noted for his
       work on antitrust legislation (1845-1921) [syn: {White},
       {Edward White}, {Edward D. White}, {Edward Douglas White
       Jr.}]
    4: Australian writer (1912-1990) [syn: {White}, {Patrick White},
       {Patrick Victor Martindale White}]
    5: United States political journalist (1915-1986) [syn: {White},
       {T. H. White}, {Theodore Harold White}]
    6: United States architect (1853-1906) [syn: {White}, {Stanford
       White}]
    7: United States writer noted for his humorous essays
       (1899-1985) [syn: {White}, {E. B. White}, {Elwyn Brooks
       White}]
    8: United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell)
       founded Cornell University and served as its first president
       (1832-1918) [syn: {White}, {Andrew D. White}, {Andrew Dickson
       White}]
    9: a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward
       through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri [syn:
       {White}, {White River}]
    10: the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective
        gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly
        of albumin dissolved in water; "she separated the whites
        from the yolks of several eggs" [syn: {egg white}, {white},
        {albumen}, {ovalbumin}]
    11: (board games) the lighter pieces [ant: {black}]
    12: (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or
        gabardine or tweed or white cloth [syn: {flannel},
        {gabardine}, {tweed}, {white}]
    v 1: turn white; "This detergent will whiten your laundry" [syn:
         {whiten}, {white}] [ant: {black}, {blacken}, {melanise},
         {melanize}, {nigrify}]
    

White \White\ (hw[imac]t), a. [Compar. {Whiter}
   (hw[imac]t"[~e]r); superl. {Whitest}.] [OE. whit, AS.
   hw[imac]t; akin to OFries. and OS. hw[imac]t, D. wit, G.
   weiss, OHG. w[imac]z, hw[imac]z, Icel. hv[imac]tr, Sw. hvit,
   Dan. hvid, Goth. hweits, Lith. szveisti, to make bright,
   Russ. sviet' light, Skr. [,c]v[=e]ta white, [,c]vit to be
   bright. [root]42. Cf. {Wheat}, {Whitsunday}.]
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   1. Reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum
      combined; not tinted with any of the proper colors or
      their mixtures; having the color of pure snow; snowy; --
      the opposite of {black} or {dark}; as, white paper; a
      white skin. "Pearls white." --Chaucer.
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            White as the whitest lily on a stream. --Longfellow.
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   2. Destitute of color, as in the cheeks, or of the tinge of
      blood color; pale; pallid; as, white with fear.
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            Or whispering with white lips, "The foe!
            They come! they come!"                --Byron.
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   3. Having the color of purity; free from spot or blemish, or
      from guilt or pollution; innocent; pure.
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            White as thy fame, and as thy honor clear. --Dryden.
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            No whiter page than Addison's remains. --Pope.
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   4. Gray, as from age; having silvery hair; hoary.
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            Your high engendered battles 'gainst a head
            So old and white as this.             --Shak.
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   5. Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the
      like; fortunate; happy; favorable.
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            On the whole, however, the dominie reckoned this as
            one of the white days of his life.    --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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   6. Regarded with especial favor; favorite; darling.
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            Come forth, my white spouse.          --Chaucer.
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            I am his white boy, and will not be gullet. --Ford.
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   Note: White is used in many self-explaining compounds, as
         white-backed, white-bearded, white-footed.
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   {White alder}. (Bot.) See {Sweet pepper bush}, under
      {Pepper}.

   {White ant} (Zool.), any one of numerous species of social
      pseudoneuropterous insects of the genus {Termes}. These
      insects are very abundant in tropical countries, and form
      large and complex communities consisting of numerous
      asexual workers of one or more kinds, of large-headed
      asexual individuals called soldiers, of one or more queens
      (or fertile females) often having the body enormously
      distended by the eggs, and, at certain seasons of numerous
      winged males, together with the larvae and pupae of each
      kind in various stages of development. Many of the species
      construct large and complicated nests, sometimes in the
      form of domelike structures rising several feet above the
      ground and connected with extensive subterranean galleries
      and chambers. In their social habits they closely resemble
      the true ants. They feed upon animal and vegetable
      substances of various kinds, including timber, and are
      often very destructive to buildings and furniture.

   {White arsenic} (Chem.), arsenious oxide, {As2O3}, a
      substance of a white color, and vitreous adamantine
      luster, having an astringent, sweetish taste. It is a
      deadly poison.

   {White bass} (Zool.), a fresh-water North American bass
      ({Roccus chrysops}) found in the Great Likes.

   {White bear} (Zool.), the polar bear. See under {Polar}.

   {White blood cell}. (Physiol.) See {Leucocyte}.

   {White brand} (Zool.), the snow goose.

   {White brass}, a white alloy of copper; white copper.

   {White campion}. (Bot.)
      (a) A kind of catchfly ({Silene stellata}) with white
          flowers.
      (b) A white-flowered Lychnis ({Lychnis vespertina}).

   {White canon} (R. C. Ch.), a Premonstratensian.

   {White caps}, the members of a secret organization in various
      of the United States, who attempt to drive away or reform
      obnoxious persons by lynch-law methods. They appear masked
      in white. Their actions resembled those of the Ku Klux
      Klan in some ways but they were not formally affiliated
      with the Klan, and their victims were often not black.

   {White cedar} (Bot.), an evergreen tree of North America
      ({Thuja occidentalis}), also the related {Cupressus
      thyoides}, or {Chamaecyparis sphaeroidea}, a slender
      evergreen conifer which grows in the so-called cedar
      swamps of the Northern and Atlantic States. Both are much
      valued for their durable timber. In California the name is
      given to the {Libocedrus decurrens}, the timber of which
      is also useful, though often subject to dry rot.
      --Goodale. The white cedar of Demerara, Guiana, etc., is a
      lofty tree ({Icica altissima} syn. {Bursera altissima})
      whose fragrant wood is used for canoes and cabinetwork, as
      it is not attacked by insect.

   {White cell}. (Physiol.) See {Leucocyte}.

   {White cell-blood} (Med.), leucocythaemia.

   {White clover} (Bot.), a species of small perennial clover
      bearing white flowers. It furnishes excellent food for
      cattle and horses, as well as for the honeybee. See also
      under {Clover}.

   {White copper}, a whitish alloy of copper. See {German
      silver}, under {German}.

   {White copperas} (Min.), a native hydrous sulphate of iron;
      coquimbite.

   {White coral} (Zool.), an ornamental branched coral
      ({Amphihelia oculata}) native of the Mediterranean.

   {White corpuscle}. (Physiol.) See {Leucocyte}.

   {White cricket} (Zool.), the tree cricket.

   {White crop}, a crop of grain which loses its green color, or
      becomes white, in ripening, as wheat, rye, barley, and
      oats, as distinguished from a green crop, or a root crop.
      

   {White currant} (Bot.), a variety of the common red currant,
      having white berries.

   {White daisy} (Bot.), the oxeye daisy. See under {Daisy}.

   {White damp}, a kind of poisonous gas encountered in coal
      mines. --Raymond.

   {White elephant} (Zool.),
      (a) a whitish, or albino, variety of the Asiatic elephant.
      (b) see {white elephant} in the vocabulary.

   {White elm} (Bot.), a majestic tree of North America ({Ulmus
      Americana}), the timber of which is much used for hubs of
      wheels, and for other purposes.

   {White ensign}. See {Saint George's ensign}, under {Saint}.
      

   {White feather}, a mark or symbol of cowardice. See {To show
      the white feather}, under {Feather}, n.

   {White fir} (Bot.), a name given to several coniferous trees
      of the Pacific States, as {Abies grandis}, and {Abies
      concolor}.

   {White flesher} (Zool.), the ruffed grouse. See under
      {Ruffed}. [Canada]

   {White frost}. See {Hoarfrost}.

   {White game} (Zool.), the white ptarmigan.

   {White garnet} (Min.), leucite.

   {White grass} (Bot.), an American grass ({Leersia Virginica})
      with greenish-white paleae.

   {White grouse}. (Zool.)
      (a) The white ptarmigan.
      (b) The prairie chicken. [Local, U. S.]

   {White grub} (Zool.), the larva of the June bug and other
      allied species. These grubs eat the roots of grasses and
      other plants, and often do much damage.

   {White hake} (Zool.), the squirrel hake. See under
      {Squirrel}.

   {White hawk}, or {White kite} (Zool.), the hen harrier.

   {White heat}, the temperature at which bodies become
      incandescent, and appear white from the bright light which
      they emit.

   {White hellebore} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Veratrum}
      ({Veratrum album}) See {Hellebore}, 2.

   {White herring}, a fresh, or unsmoked, herring, as
      distinguished from a red, or cured, herring. [R.] --Shak.

   {White hoolet} (Zool.), the barn owl. [Prov. Eng.]

   {White horses} (Naut.), white-topped waves; whitecaps.

   {The White House}. See under {House}.

   {White ibis} (Zool.), an American ibis ({Guara alba}) having
      the plumage pure white, except the tips of the wings,
      which are black. It inhabits tropical America and the
      Southern United States. Called also {Spanish curlew}.

   {White iron}.
      (a) Thin sheets of iron coated with tin; tinned iron.
      (b) A hard, silvery-white cast iron containing a large
          proportion of combined carbon.

   {White iron pyrites} (Min.), marcasite.

   {White land}, a tough clayey soil, of a whitish hue when dry,
      but blackish after rain. [Eng.]

   {White lark} (Zool.), the snow bunting.

   {White lead}.
      (a) A carbonate of lead much used in painting, and for
          other purposes; ceruse.
      (b) (Min.) Native lead carbonate; cerusite.

   {White leather}, buff leather; leather tanned with alum and
      salt.

   {White leg} (Med.), milk leg. See under {Milk}.

   {White lettuce} (Bot.), rattlesnake root. See under
      {Rattlesnake}.

   {White lie}. See under {Lie}.

   {White light}.
      (a) (Physics) Light having the different colors in the
          same proportion as in the light coming directly from
          the sun, without having been decomposed, as by passing
          through a prism. See the Note under {Color}, n., 1.
      (b) A kind of firework which gives a brilliant white
          illumination for signals, etc.

   {White lime}, a solution or preparation of lime for
      whitewashing; whitewash.

   {White line} (Print.), a void space of the breadth of a line,
      on a printed page; a blank line.

   {White meat}.
      (a) Any light-colored flesh, especially of poultry.
      (b) Food made from milk or eggs, as butter, cheese, etc.
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                Driving their cattle continually with them, and
                feeding only upon their milk and white meats.
                                                  --Spenser.
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   {White merganser} (Zool.), the smew.

   {White metal}.
      (a) Any one of several white alloys, as pewter, britannia,
          etc.
      (b) (Metal.) A fine grade of copper sulphide obtained at a
          certain stage in copper smelting.

   {White miller}. (Zool.)
      (a) The common clothes moth.
      (b) A common American bombycid moth ({Spilosoma
          Virginica}) which is pure white with a few small black
          spots; -- called also {ermine moth}, and {virgin
          moth}. See {Woolly bear}, under {Woolly}.

   {White money}, silver money.

   {White mouse} (Zool.), the albino variety of the common
      mouse.

   {White mullet} (Zool.), a silvery mullet ({Mugil curema})
      ranging from the coast of the United States to Brazil; --
      called also {blue-back mullet}, and {liza}.

   {White nun} (Zool.), the smew; -- so called from the white
      crest and the band of black feathers on the back of its
      head, which give the appearance of a hood.

   {White oak}. (Bot.) See under {Oak}.

   {White owl}. (Zool.)
      (a) The snowy owl.
      (b) The barn owl.

   {White partridge} (Zool.), the white ptarmigan.

   {White perch}. (Zool.)
      (a) A North American fresh-water bass ({Morone Americana})
          valued as a food fish.
      (b) The croaker, or fresh-water drum.
      (c) Any California surf fish.

   {White pine}. (Bot.) See the Note under {Pine}.

   {White poplar} (Bot.), a European tree ({Populus alba}) often
      cultivated as a shade tree in America; abele.

   {White poppy} (Bot.), the opium-yielding poppy. See {Poppy}.
      

   {White powder}, a kind of gunpowder formerly believed to
      exist, and to have the power of exploding without noise.
      [Obs.]
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            A pistol charged with white powder.   --Beau. & Fl.
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   {White precipitate}. (Old Chem.) See under {Precipitate}.

   {White rabbit}. (Zool.)
      (a) The American northern hare in its winter pelage.
      (b) An albino rabbit.

   {White rent},
      (a) (Eng. Law) Formerly, rent payable in silver; --
          opposed to black rent. See {Blackmail}, n., 3.
      (b) A rent, or duty, of eight pence, payable yearly by
          every tinner in Devon and Cornwall to the Duke of
          Cornwall, as lord of the soil. [Prov. Eng.]

   {White rhinoceros}. (Zool.)
      (a) The one-horned, or Indian, rhinoceros ({Rhinoceros
          Indicus}). See {Rhinoceros}.
      (b) The umhofo.

   {White ribbon}, the distinctive badge of certain
      organizations for the promotion of temperance or of moral
      purity; as, the White-ribbon Army.

   {White rope} (Naut.), untarred hemp rope.

   {White rot}. (Bot.)
      (a) Either of several plants, as marsh pennywort and
          butterwort, which were thought to produce the disease
          called rot in sheep.
      (b) A disease of grapes. See {White rot}, under {Rot}.

   {White sage} (Bot.), a white, woolly undershrub ({Eurotia
      lanata}) of Western North America; -- called also {winter
      fat}.

   {White salmon} (Zool.), the silver salmon.

   {White salt}, salt dried and calcined; decrepitated salt.

   {White scale} (Zool.), a scale insect ({Aspidiotus Nerii})
      injurious to the orange tree. See {Orange scale}, under
      {Orange}.

   {White shark} (Zool.), a species of man-eating shark. See
      under {Shark}.

   {White softening}. (Med.) See {Softening of the brain}, under
      {Softening}.

   {White spruce}. (Bot.) See {Spruce}, n., 1.

   {White squall} (Naut.), a sudden gust of wind, or furious
      blow, which comes up without being marked in its approach
      otherwise than by whitecaps, or white, broken water, on
      the surface of the sea.

   {White staff}, the badge of the lord high treasurer of
      England. --Macaulay.

   {White stork} (Zool.), the common European stork.

   {White sturgeon}. (Zool.) See {Shovelnose}
      (d) .

   {White sucker}. (Zool.)
      (a) The common sucker.
      (b) The common red horse ({Moxostoma macrolepidotum}).

   {White swelling} (Med.), a chronic swelling of the knee,
      produced by a strumous inflammation of the synovial
      membranes of the kneejoint and of the cancellar texture of
      the end of the bone forming the kneejoint; -- applied also
      to a lingering chronic swelling of almost any kind.

   {White tombac}. See {Tombac}.

   {White trout} (Zool.), the white weakfish, or silver
      squeteague ({Cynoscion nothus}), of the Southern United
      States.

   {White vitriol} (Chem.), hydrous sulphate of zinc. See {White
      vitriol}, under {Vitriol}.

   {White wagtail} (Zool.), the common, or pied, wagtail.

   {White wax}, beeswax rendered white by bleaching.

   {White whale} (Zool.), the beluga.

   {White widgeon} (Zool.), the smew.

   {White wine}. any wine of a clear, transparent color,
      bordering on white, as Madeira, sherry, Lisbon, etc.; --
      distinguished from wines of a deep red color, as port and
      Burgundy. "White wine of Lepe." --Chaucer.

   {White witch}, a witch or wizard whose supernatural powers
      are supposed to be exercised for good and beneficent
      purposes. --Addison. --Cotton Mather.

   {White wolf}. (Zool.)
      (a) A light-colored wolf ({Canis laniger}) native of
          Thibet; -- called also {chanco}, {golden wolf}, and
          {Thibetan wolf}.
      (b) The albino variety of the gray wolf.

   {White wren} (Zool.), the willow warbler; -- so called from
      the color of the under parts.
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White \White\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Whited}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Whiting}.] [AS. hw[imac]tan.]
   To make white; to whiten; to whitewash; to bleach.
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         Whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful
         outward, but are within full of . . . uncleanness.
                                                  --Matt. xxiii.
                                                  27.
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         So as no fuller on earth can white them. --Mark. ix. 3.
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White \White\, n.
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   1. The color of pure snow; one of the natural colors of
      bodies, yet not strictly a color, but a composition of all
      colors; the opposite of black; whiteness. See the Note
      under {Color}, n., 1.
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            Finely attired in a of white.         --Shak.
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   2. Something having the color of snow; something white, or
      nearly so; as, the white of the eye.
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   3. Specifically, the central part of the butt in archery,
      which was formerly painted white; the center of a mark at
      which a missile is shot.
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            'T was I won the wager, though you hit the white.
                                                  --Shak.
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   4. A person with a white skin; a member of the white, or
      Caucasian, races of men.
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   5. A white pigment; as, Venice white.
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   6. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of butterflies
      belonging to {Pieris}, and allied genera in which the
      color is usually white. See {Cabbage butterfly}, under
      {Cabbage}.
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   {Black and white}. See under {Black}.

   {Flake white}, {Paris white}, etc. See under {Flack},
      {Paris}, etc.

   {White of a seed} (Bot.), the albumen. See {Albumen}, 2.

   {White of egg}, the viscous pellucid fluid which surrounds
      the yolk in an egg, particularly in the egg of a fowl. In
      a hen's egg it is alkaline, and contains about 86 per cent
      of water and 14 per cent of solid matter, the greater
      portion of which is egg albumin. It likewise contains a
      small amount of globulin, and traces of fats and sugar,
      with some inorganic matter. Heated above 60[deg] C. it
      coagulates to a solid mass, owing to the albumin which it
      contains. --Parr.

   {White of the eye} (Anat.), the white part of the ball of the
      eye surrounding the transparent cornea.
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Wine \Wine\, n. [OE. win, AS. win, fr. L. vinum (cf. Icel.
   v[imac]n; all from the Latin); akin to Gr. o'i^nos, ?, and E.
   withy. Cf. {Vine}, {Vineyard}, {Vinous}, {Withy}.]
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   1. The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a
      beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out
      their juice, and (usually) allowing it to ferment. "Red
      wine of Gascoigne." --Piers Plowman.
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            Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and
            whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. --Prov.
                                                  xx. 1.
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            Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape
            Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine. --Milton.
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   Note: Wine is essentially a dilute solution of ethyl alcohol,
         containing also certain small quantities of ethers and
         ethereal salts which give character and bouquet.
         According to their color, strength, taste, etc., wines
         are called {red}, {white}, {spirituous}, {dry},
         {light}, {still}, etc.
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   2. A liquor or beverage prepared from the juice of any fruit
      or plant by a process similar to that for grape wine; as,
      currant wine; gooseberry wine; palm wine.
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   3. The effect of drinking wine in excess; intoxication.
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            Noah awoke from his wine.             --Gen. ix. 24.
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   {Birch wine}, {Cape wine}, etc. See under {Birch}, {Cape},
      etc.

   {Spirit of wine}. See under {Spirit}.

   {To have drunk wine of ape} or {To have drunk wine ape}, to
      be so drunk as to be foolish. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

   {Wine acid}. (Chem.) See {Tartaric acid}, under {Tartaric}.
      [Colloq.]

   {Wine apple} (Bot.), a large red apple, with firm flesh and a
      rich, vinous flavor.

   {Wine fly} (Zool.), small two-winged fly of the genus
      {Piophila}, whose larva lives in wine, cider, and other
      fermented liquors.

   {Wine grower}, one who cultivates a vineyard and makes wine.
      

   {Wine measure}, the measure by which wines and other spirits
      are sold, smaller than beer measure.

   {Wine merchant}, a merchant who deals in wines.

   {Wine of opium} (Pharm.), a solution of opium in aromatized
      sherry wine, having the same strength as ordinary
      laudanum; -- also {Sydenham's laudanum}.

   {Wine press}, a machine or apparatus in which grapes are
      pressed to extract their juice.

   {Wine skin}, a bottle or bag of skin, used, in various
      countries, for carrying wine.

   {Wine stone}, a kind of crust deposited in wine casks. See
      1st {Tartar}, 1.

   {Wine vault}.
      (a) A vault where wine is stored.
      (b) A place where wine is served at the bar, or at tables;
          a dramshop. --Dickens.

   {Wine vinegar}, vinegar made from wine.

   {Wine whey}, whey made from milk coagulated by the use of
      wine.
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Colorless \Col"or*less\, a.
   1. Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent;
      as, colorless water; a colorless gas.

   Note: [Narrower terms: {ashen, bloodless, livid, lurid, pale,
         pallid, pasty, wan, waxen}; {neutral}; {white}] [Also
         See: {achromatic}, {colorless}.]
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   2. Free from any manifestation of partial or peculiar
      sentiment or feeling; not disclosing likes, dislikes,
      prejudice, etc.; as, colorless music; a colorless style;
      definitions should be colorless.
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   3. having lost its normal color.

   Note: [Narrower terms: {blanched, etiolate, etiolated,
         whitened}; {bleached, faded, washed-out, washy};
         {dimmed, dulled, grayed}; {dirty}; {dull, sober,
         somber, subfusc}] {colored}

   Syn: colorless, uncolored, uncoloured.
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WHITE, adj. and n.  Black.
    

White
a symbol of purity (2 Chr. 5:12; Ps. 51:7; Isa. 1:18; Rev. 3:18;
7:14). Our Lord, at his transfiguration, appeared in raiment
"white as the light" (Matt. 17:2, etc.).
    

White, GA (town, FIPS 82468)
  Location: 34.28245 N, 84.74766 W
  Population (1990): 542 (220 housing units)
  Area: 2.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 30184
White, PA
  Zip code(s): 15490
White, SD (city, FIPS 70940)
  Location: 44.43338 N, 96.64542 W
  Population (1990): 536 (201 housing units)
  Area: 1.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 57276
    

White, GA -- U.S. city in Georgia
   Population (2000):    693
   Housing Units (2000): 274
   Land area (2000):     0.906110 sq. miles (2.346814 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.906110 sq. miles (2.346814 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            82468
   Located within:       Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
   Location:             34.280449 N, 84.746606 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     30184
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    White, GA
    White
    

White, SD -- U.S. city in South Dakota
   Population (2000):    530
   Housing Units (2000): 212
   Land area (2000):     0.714798 sq. miles (1.851318 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.714798 sq. miles (1.851318 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            70940
   Located within:       South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
   Location:             44.434353 N, 96.647514 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     57276
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    White, SD
    White
    

White -- U.S. County in Georgia
   Population (2000):    19944
   Housing Units (2000): 9454
   Land area (2000):     241.578093 sq. miles (625.684363 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.583088 sq. miles (1.510192 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    242.161181 sq. miles (627.194555 sq. km)
   Located within:       Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
   Location:             34.615230 N, 83.742570 W
   Headwords:
    White
    White, GA
    White County
    White County, GA
    

White -- U.S. County in Indiana
   Population (2000):    25267
   Housing Units (2000): 12083
   Land area (2000):     505.236488 sq. miles (1308.556440 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    3.564599 sq. miles (9.232269 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    508.801087 sq. miles (1317.788709 sq. km)
   Located within:       Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
   Location:             40.748174 N, 86.831515 W
   Headwords:
    White
    White, IN
    White County
    White County, IN
    

White -- U.S. County in Illinois
   Population (2000):    15371
   Housing Units (2000): 7393
   Land area (2000):     494.870413 sq. miles (1281.708431 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    6.826446 sq. miles (17.680413 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    501.696859 sq. miles (1299.388844 sq. km)
   Located within:       Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
   Location:             38.104078 N, 88.180096 W
   Headwords:
    White
    White, IL
    White County
    White County, IL
    

White -- U.S. County in Tennessee
   Population (2000):    23102
   Housing Units (2000): 10191
   Land area (2000):     376.581992 sq. miles (975.342841 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    2.803816 sq. miles (7.261851 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    379.385808 sq. miles (982.604692 sq. km)
   Located within:       Tennessee (TN), FIPS 47
   Location:             35.929676 N, 85.478170 W
   Headwords:
    White
    White, TN
    White County
    White County, TN
    

White -- U.S. County in Arkansas
   Population (2000):    67165
   Housing Units (2000): 27613
   Land area (2000):     1034.029450 sq. miles (2678.123867 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    8.329073 sq. miles (21.572200 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    1042.358523 sq. miles (2699.696067 sq. km)
   Located within:       Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
   Location:             35.250106 N, 91.730562 W
   Headwords:
    White
    White, AR
    White County
    White County, AR
    

312 Moby Thesaurus words for "white":
      American Indian, Amerind, Australian aborigine, Bourbon, Bushman,
      Caucasian, Chinese white, Indian, Malayan, Mister Charley,
      Mongolian, Negrillo, Negrito, Negro, Oriental, Red Indian, WASP,
      achroma, achromasia, achromatic, achromatosis, achromic, advanced,
      advanced in life, advanced in years, aged, alabaster, albescence,
      albinism, albino, albinoism, albumen, along in years, ancient,
      anemic, argent, argentine, ashen, ashy, auspicious, bare,
      barium sulfate, barren, benign, besnow, black, black man,
      blackfellow, blanc fixe, blanch, bland, blank, bleach, bleached,
      bled white, blench, blimp, blond, blondness, bloodless, blotless,
      boy, bright, brown man, burrhead, cadaverous, calcimine,
      canescence, canescent, caviar, chalk, chalkiness, chalky,
      characterless, chaste, chloranemic, clean, cleanly, clear,
      colored person, colorless, coon, creaminess, cretaceous, dainty,
      darky, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, decolor, decolorize,
      devoid, dexter, diehard, dim, dimmed, dingy, dirt-free, discolored,
      driven snow, dull, egg, egg white, eggshell, elderly, empty,
      etiolate, etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous,
      extenuate, faded, faint, fair, fairness, fallow, fastidious,
      featureless, fish eggs, flat, fleece, fleecy-white, flour, foam,
      fortunate, fresh, frost, frosted, frostiness, frosty, ghastly,
      glair, glaucescence, glaucousness, gloss over, gook, gray,
      gray with age, gray-haired, gray-headed, grizzle, grizzled,
      grizzliness, grizzly, grown old, haggard, hoar, hoariness, hoary,
      hollow, honky, hueless, hypochromic, immaculate, impeccable, inane,
      innocent, insipid, ivory, jigaboo, jungle bunny, kosher,
      lackluster, lactescence, lactescent, leaden, leukoderma, lightness,
      lily, lily-white, livid, lurid, lusterless, maggot, marble,
      marmoreal, mat, mealy, milk, milkiness, milky, muddy, neutral,
      nigger, niggra, niveous, nonpolluted, null, null and void,
      of cleanly habits, ofay, old, old as Methuselah, ovule, pale,
      pale as death, pale-faced, paleface, paleness, pallid, paper,
      pasty, patriarchal, pearl, pearliness, pipe-clay, platinum,
      propitious, pure, pure in heart, pure white, purehearted, pygmy,
      reactionarist, reactionist, red man, redskin, ritually pure, roe,
      royalist, sallow, senectuous, sexually innocent, sheet, shiny,
      sickly, silver, silvered, silveriness, silvery, slant-eye,
      smut-free, smutless, snow, snow-white, snowiness, snowy, spade,
      spawn, spotless, stainless, sugarcoat, swan, swan-white, sweet,
      tahar, taintless, tallow-faced, the Man, toneless, tubbed,
      ultraconservative, unadulterated, unbesmirched, unblemished,
      unblotted, uncolored, uncorrupt, undefiled, unmuddied, unpolluted,
      unrelieved, unsmirched, unsmudged, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained,
      unsullied, untainted, untarnished, vacant, vacuous, varnish,
      veneer, venerable, virtuous, vitellus, vitiligo, void, wan,
      washed-out, waxen, weak, well-scrubbed, well-washed, whey-faced,
      white as snow, white lead, white man, white race, white with age,
      white-bearded, white-crowned, white-haired, whiten, whitened,
      whiteness, whitewash, whitey, whitishness, with nothing inside,
      without content, wrinkled, wrinkly, years old, yellow, yellow man,
      yolk, zinc oxide, zinc sulfide, zinc white