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(Zoöl.) (a) The snowy owl. (b) The barn owl. — White partridge (Zoöl.), the white ptarmigan. —
White perch. (Zoöl.) (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.]
A pistol charged with white powder. Beau. & Fl. — White precipitate. (Old Chem.) See under Precipitate. — White rabbit. (Zoöl.) (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. (Zoöl.) (a) The one-horned, or Indian, rhinoceros 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 (Zoöl.), the silver salmon. — White salt, salt dried and calcined; decrepitated
salt. — White scale (Zoöl.), a scale insect (Aspidiotus Nerii) injurious to the orange tree. See Orange
scale, under Orange. — White shark (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), the common European stork. — White sturgeon. (Zoöl.) See Shovelnose (d).
— White sucker. (Zoöl.) (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 (Zoöl.), the white weakfish, or silver squeteague of the Southern United States.
— White vitriol (Chem.), hydrous sulphate of zinc. See White vitriol, under Vitriol. — White wagtail
(Zoöl.), the common, or pied, wagtail. — White wax, beeswax rendered white by bleaching. — White
whale (Zoöl.), the beluga. — White widgeon (Zoöl.), 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. (Zoöl.) (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 (Zoöl.), the willow warbler; - - so called from the color of the under parts.
White
(White) n.
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.
Finely attired in a of white. Shak. 2. Something having the color of snow; something white, or nearly so; as, the white of the eye.
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