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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wolf \Wolf\, n.; pl. {Wolves}. [OE. wolf, wulf, AS. wulf; akin
     to OS. wulf, D. & G. wolf, Icel. [=u]lfr, Sw. ulf, Dan. ulv,
     Goth. wulfs, Lith. vilkas, Russ. volk', L. lupus, Gr. ly`kos,
     Skr. v[.r]ka; also to Gr. "e`lkein to draw, drag, tear in
     pieces. [root]286. Cf. {Lupine}, a., {Lyceum}.]
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     1. (Zool.) Any one of several species of wild and savage
        carnivores belonging to the genus {Canis} and closely
        allied to the common dog. The best-known and most
        destructive species are the European wolf ({Canis lupus}),
        the American gray, or timber, wolf ({Canis occidentalis}),
        and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in
        packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.
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     2. (Zool.) One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae
        of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee
        wolf.
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     3. Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person
        or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled
        hard to keep the wolf from the door.
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     4. A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.
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     5. An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. {Lupus}. [Obs.]
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              If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf
              into thy side.                        --Jer. Taylor.
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     6. (Mus.)
        (a) The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an
            organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament.
        (b) In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective
            vibration in certain notes of the scale.
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     7. (Textile Manuf.) A willying machine. --Knight.
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     {Black wolf}. (Zool.)
        (a) A black variety of the European wolf which is common
            in the Pyrenees.
        (b) A black variety of the American gray wolf.
  
     {Golden wolf} (Zool.), the Thibetan wolf ({Canis laniger});
        -- called also {chanco}.
  
     {Indian wolf} (Zool.), an Asiatic wolf ({Canis pallipes})
        which somewhat resembles a jackal. Called also {landgak}.
        
  
     {Prairie wolf} (Zool.), the coyote.
  
     {Sea wolf}. (Zool.) See in the Vocabulary.
  
     {Strand wolf} (Zool.) the striped hyena.
  
     {Tasmanian wolf} (Zool.), the zebra wolf.
  
     {Tiger wolf} (Zool.), the spotted hyena.
  
     {To keep the wolf from the door}, to keep away poverty; to
        prevent starvation. See {Wolf}, 3, above. --Tennyson.
  
     {Wolf dog}. (Zool.)
        (a) The mastiff, or shepherd dog, of the Pyrenees,
            supposed by some authors to be one of the ancestors of
            the St. Bernard dog.
        (b) The Irish greyhound, supposed to have been used
            formerly by the Danes for chasing wolves.
        (c) A dog bred between a dog and a wolf, as the Eskimo
            dog.
  
     {Wolf eel} (Zool.), a wolf fish.
  
     {Wolf fish} (Zool.), any one of several species of large,
        voracious marine fishes of the genus {Anarrhichas},
        especially the common species ({Anarrhichas lupus}) of
        Europe and North America. These fishes have large teeth
        and powerful jaws. Called also {catfish}, {sea cat}, {sea
        wolf}, {stone biter}, and {swinefish}.
  
     {Wolf net}, a kind of net used in fishing, which takes great
        numbers of fish.
  
     {Wolf's peach} (Bot.), the tomato, or love apple
        ({Lycopersicum esculentum}).
  
     {Wolf spider} (Zool.), any one of numerous species of running
        ground spiders belonging to the genus {Lycosa}, or family
        {Lycosidae}. These spiders run about rapidly in search of
        their prey. Most of them are plain brown or blackish in
        color. See Illust. in App.
  
     {Zebra wolf} (Zool.), a savage carnivorous marsupial
        ({Thylacinus cynocephalus}) native of Tasmania; -- called
        also {Tasmanian wolf}.
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