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-bies
(gcide) | Toby \To"by\, n.; pl. -bies. [Perh. from the proper name.]
A small jug, pitcher, or mug, generally used for ale, shaped
somewhat like a stout man, with a cocked hat forming the
brim.
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Abies
(gcide) | Abies \A"bi*es\, n. [L., fir tree.] (Bot.)
A genus of coniferous trees, properly called Fir, as the
balsam fir and the silver fir. The spruces are sometimes also
referred to this genus.
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Abies balsamea
(gcide) | Balm \Balm\ (b[aum]m), n. [OE. baume, OF. bausme, basme, F.
baume, L. balsamum balsam, from Gr. ba`lsamon; perhaps of
Semitic origin; cf. Heb. b[=a]s[=a]m. Cf. Balsam.]
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1. (Bot.) An aromatic plant of the genus Melissa.
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2. The resinous and aromatic exudation of certain trees or
shrubs. --Dryden.
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3. Any fragrant ointment. --Shak.
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4. Anything that heals or that mitigates pain. "Balm for each
ill." --Mrs. Hemans.
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Balm cricket (Zool.), the European cicada. --Tennyson.
Balm of Gilead (Bot.), a small evergreen African and
Asiatic tree of the terebinthine family ({Balsamodendron
Gileadense}). Its leaves yield, when bruised, a strong
aromatic scent; and from this tree is obtained the balm of
Gilead of the shops, or balsam of Mecca. This has a
yellowish or greenish color, a warm, bitterish, aromatic
taste, and a fragrant smell. It is valued as an unguent
and cosmetic by the Turks. The fragrant herb
Dracocephalum Canariense is familiarly called balm of
Gilead, and so are the American trees, {Populus
balsamifera}, variety candicans (balsam poplar), and
Abies balsamea (balsam fir).
[1913 Webster]Balsam \Bal"sam\ (b[add]l"sam), n. [L. balsamum the balsam tree
or its resin, Gr. ba`lsamon. See Balm, n.]
1. A resin containing more or less of an essential or
volatile oil.
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Note: The balsams are aromatic resinous substances, flowing
spontaneously or by incision from certain plants. A
great variety of substances pass under this name, but
the term is now usually restricted to resins which, in
addition to a volatile oil, contain benzoic and
cinnamic acid. Among the true balsams are the balm of
Gilead, and the balsams of copaiba, Peru, and Tolu.
There are also many pharmaceutical preparations and
resinous substances, possessed of a balsamic smell, to
which the name balsam has been given.
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2. (Bot.)
(a) A species of tree (Abies balsamea).
(b) An annual garden plant (Impatiens balsamina) with
beautiful flowers; balsamine.
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3. Anything that heals, soothes, or restores.
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Was not the people's blessing a balsam to thy blood?
--Tennyson.
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Balsam apple (Bot.), an East Indian plant ({Momordica
balsamina}), of the gourd family, with red or
orange-yellow cucumber-shaped fruit of the size of a
walnut, used as a vulnerary, and in liniments and
poultices.
Balsam fir (Bot.), the American coniferous tree, {Abies
balsamea}, from which the useful Canada balsam is derived.
Balsam of copaiba. See Copaiba.
Balsam of Mecca, balm of Gilead.
Balsam of Peru, a reddish brown, syrupy balsam, obtained
from a Central American tree (Myroxylon Pereir[ae] and
used as a stomachic and expectorant, and in the treatment
of ulcers, etc. It was long supposed to be a product of
Peru.
Balsam of Tolu, a reddish or yellowish brown semisolid or
solid balsam, obtained from a South American tree
(Myroxylon toluiferum). It is highly fragrant, and is
used as a stomachic and expectorant.
Balsam tree, any tree from which balsam is obtained, esp.
the Abies balsamea.
Canada balsam, Balsam of fir, Canada turpentine, a
yellowish, viscid liquid, which, by time and exposure,
becomes a transparent solid mass. It is obtained from the
balm of Gilead (or balsam) fir (Abies balsamea) by
breaking the vesicles upon the trunk and branches. See
Balm.
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Abies Canadensis
(gcide) | Hemlock \Hem"lock\, n. [OE. hemeluc, humloc, AS. hemlic,
hymlic.]
1. (Bot.) The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs
having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the
Cicuta maculata, Cicuta bulbifera, and {Cicuta
virosa}, and the Conium maculatum. See Conium.
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Note: The potion of hemlock administered to Socrates is by
some thought to have been a decoction of {Cicuta
virosa}, or water hemlock, by others, of {Conium
maculatum}.
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2. (Bot.) An evergreen tree common in North America ({Abies
Canadensis} or Tsuga Canadensis); hemlock spruce.
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The murmuring pines and the hemlocks. --Longfellow.
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3. The wood or timber of the hemlock tree.
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Ground hemlock, or Dwarf hemlock. See under Ground.
[1913 Webster]Pitch \Pitch\, n. [OE. pich, AS. pic, L. pix; akin to Gr. ?.]
1. A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by
boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of
ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc.,
to preserve them.
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He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
--Ecclus.
xiii. 1.
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2. (Geol.) See Pitchstone.
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Amboyna pitch, the resin of Dammara australis. See
Kauri.
Burgundy pitch. See under Burgundy.
Canada pitch, the resinous exudation of the hemlock tree
(Abies Canadensis); hemlock gum.
Jew's pitch, bitumen.
Mineral pitch. See Bitumen and Asphalt.
Pitch coal (Min.), bituminous coal.
Pitch peat (Min.), a black homogeneous peat, with a waxy
luster.
Pitch pine (Bot.), any one of several species of pine,
yielding pitch, esp. the Pinus rigida of North America.
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Abies concolor
(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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Abies excelsa
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incense.]
A fragrant, aromatic resin, or gum resin, burned as an
incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation. The
best kinds now come from East Indian trees, of the genus
Boswellia; a commoner sort, from the Norway spruce ({Abies
excelsa}) and other coniferous trees. The frankincense of the
ancient Jews is still unidentified.
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1. An old province of France (in the eastern central part).
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2. A richly flavored wine, mostly red, made in Burgundy,
France.
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Burgundy pitch, a resinous substance prepared from the
exudation of the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) by
melting in hot water and straining through cloth. The
genuine Burgundy pitch, supposed to have been first
prepared in Burgundy, is rare, but there are many
imitations. It has a yellowish brown color, is translucent
and hard, but viscous. It is used in medicinal plasters.
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Abies grandis
(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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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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Abies pectinata
(gcide) | Silver \Sil"ver\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to silver; made of silver; as, silver
leaf; a silver cup.
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2. Resembling silver. Specifically:
(a) Bright; resplendent; white. "Silver hair." --Shak.
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Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bathed
Their downy breast. --Milton.
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(b) Precious; costly.
(c) Giving a clear, ringing sound soft and clear. "Silver
voices." --Spenser.
(d) Sweet; gentle; peaceful. "Silver slumber." --Spenser.
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American silver fir (Bot.), the balsam fir. See under
Balsam.
Silver age (Roman Lit.), the latter part (a. d. 14-180) of
the classical period of Latinity, -- the time of writers
of inferior purity of language, as compared with those of
the previous golden age, so-called.
Silver-bell tree (Bot.), an American shrub or small tree
(Halesia tetraptera) with white bell-shaped flowers in
clusters or racemes; the snowdrop tree.
Silver bush (Bot.), a shrubby leguminous plant ({Anthyllis
Barba-Jovis}) of Southern Europe, having silvery foliage.
Silver chub (Zool.), the fallfish.
Silver eel. (Zool.)
(a) The cutlass fish.
(b) A pale variety of the common eel.
Silver fir (Bot.), a coniferous tree (Abies pectinata)
found in mountainous districts in the middle and south of
Europe, where it often grows to the height of 100 or 150
feet. It yields Burgundy pitch and Strasburg turpentine.
Silver foil, foil made of silver.
Silver fox (Zool.), a variety of the common fox ({Vulpes
vulpes}, variety argenteus) found in the northern parts of
Asia, Europe, and America. Its fur is nearly black, with
silvery tips, and is highly valued. Called also {black
fox}, and silver-gray fox.
Silver gar. (Zool.) See Billfish
(a) .
Silver grain (Bot.), the lines or narrow plates of cellular
tissue which pass from the pith to the bark of an
exogenous stem; the medullary rays. In the wood of the oak
they are much larger than in that of the beech, maple,
pine, cherry, etc.
Silver grebe (Zool.), the red-throated diver. See Illust.
under Diver.
Silver hake (Zool.), the American whiting.
Silver leaf, leaves or sheets made of silver beaten very
thin.
Silver lunge (Zool.), the namaycush.
Silver moonfish.(Zool.) See Moonfish
(b) .
Silver moth (Zool.), a lepisma.
Silver owl (Zool.), the barn owl.
Silver perch (Zool.), the mademoiselle, 2.
Silver pheasant (Zool.), any one of several species of
beautiful crested and long-tailed Asiatic pheasants, of
the genus Euplocamus. They have the tail and more or
less of the upper parts silvery white. The most common
species (Euplocamus nychtemerus) is native of China.
Silver plate,
(a) domestic utensils made of a base metal coated with
silver.
(b) a plating of silver on a base metal.
Silver plover (Zool.), the knot.
Silver salmon (Zool.), a salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch)
native of both coasts of the North Pacific. It ascends all
the American rivers as far south as the Sacramento. Called
also kisutch, whitefish, and white salmon.
Silver shell (Zool.), a marine bivalve of the genus Anomia.
See Anomia.
Silver steel, an alloy of steel with a very small
proportion of silver.
Silver stick, a title given to the title field officer of
the Life Guards when on duty at the palace. [Eng.]
--Thackeray.
Silver tree (Bot.), a South African tree ({Leucadendron
argenteum}) with long, silvery, silky leaves.
Silver trout, (Zool.) See Trout.
Silver wedding. See under Wedding.
Silver whiting (Zool.), a marine sciaenoid food fish
(Menticirrus littoralis) native of the Southern United
States; -- called also surf whiting.
Silver witch (Zool.), A lepisma.
[1913 Webster]Turpentine \Tur"pen*tine\ (t[^u]r"p[e^]n*t[imac]n), n. [F.
t['e]r['e]benthine, OF. also turbentine; cf. Pr. terebentina,
terbentina, It. terebentina, trementina; fr. L. terebinthinus
of the turpentine tree, from terebinthus the turpentine tree.
Gr. tere`binqos, te`rminqos. See Terebinth.]
A semifluid or fluid oleoresin, primarily the exudation of
the terebinth, or turpentine, tree (Pistacia Terebinthus),
a native of the Mediterranean region. It is also obtained
from many coniferous trees, especially species of pine,
larch, and fir.
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Note: There are many varieties of turpentine. Chian
turpentine is produced in small quantities by the
turpentine tree (Pistacia Terebinthus). Venice,
Swiss, or larch turpentine, is obtained from {Larix
Europaea}. It is a clear, colorless balsam, having a
tendency to solidify. Canada turpentine, or Canada
balsam, is the purest of all the pine turpentines (see
under Balsam). The Carpathian and Hungarian varieties
are derived from Pinus Cembra and Pinus Mugho.
Carolina turpentine, the most abundant kind, comes from
the long-leaved pine (Pinus palustris). Strasburg
turpentine is from the silver fir (Abies pectinata).
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Oil of turpentine (Chem.), a colorless oily hydrocarbon,
C10H16, of a pleasant aromatic odor, obtained by the
distillation of crude turpentine. It is used in making
varnishes, in medicine, etc. It is the type of the
terpenes and is related to cymene. Called also
terebenthene, terpene, etc.
Turpentine moth (Zool.), any one of several species of
small tortricid moths whose larvae eat the tender shoots
of pine and fir trees, causing an exudation of pitch or
resin.
Turpentine tree (Bot.), the terebinth tree, the original
source of turpentine. See Turpentine, above.
[1913 Webster]Abietite \Ab"i*e*tite\, n. (Chem.)
A substance resembling mannite, found in the needles of the
common silver fir of Europe (Abies pectinata). --Eng. Cyc.
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Abies shastensis
(gcide) | Shasta fir \Shasta fir\
A Californian fir (Abies shastensis).
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Aerobies
(gcide) | Aerobies \A"["e]r*o*bies\, n. pl. [A["e]ro- + Gr. bi`os life.]
(Biol.)
Micro["o]rganisms which live in contact with the air and need
oxygen for their growth; as the microbacteria which form on
the surface of putrefactive fluids; aerobes. [obsolescent]
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Anaerobies
(gcide) | Anaerobies \An*a"["e]r*o*bies\, n. pl. [Gr. 'an priv. + ?, ?,
air + bi`os life.] (Biol.)
Micro["o]rganisms which do not require oxygen, but are killed
by it. See obligate anaerobes under anaerobes.
--Sternberg.
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Babies
(gcide) | Baby \Ba"by\ (b[=a]"b[y^]), n.; pl. Babies (-b[i^]z). [Dim. of
babe.]
An infant or young child of either sex; a babe.
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2. A small image of an infant; a doll.
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Babies in the eyes, the minute reflection which one sees of
one's self in the eyes of another.
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She clung about his neck, gave him ten kisses,
Toyed with his locks, looked babies in his eyes.
--Heywood.
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Babies in the eyes
(gcide) | Baby \Ba"by\ (b[=a]"b[y^]), n.; pl. Babies (-b[i^]z). [Dim. of
babe.]
An infant or young child of either sex; a babe.
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2. A small image of an infant; a doll.
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Babies in the eyes, the minute reflection which one sees of
one's self in the eyes of another.
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She clung about his neck, gave him ten kisses,
Toyed with his locks, looked babies in his eyes.
--Heywood.
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Biestings
(gcide) | Biestings \Biest"ings\, Beestings \Beest"ings\, n. pl. [OE.
bestynge, AS. b[=y]sting, fr. b[=y]st, beost; akin to D.
biest, OHG. biost, G. biest; of unknown origin.]
The first milk given by a cow after calving. --B. Jonson.
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The thick and curdy milk . . . commonly called
biestings. --Newton.
(1574).
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Boobies
(gcide) | Booby \Boo"by\ (b[=oo]"b[y^]), n.; pl. Boobies (-b[i^]z). [Sp.
bobo dunce, idiot; cf. L. balbus stammering, E. barbarous.]
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1. A dunce; a stupid fellow.
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2. (Zool.)
(a) A swimming bird (Sula fiber or Sula sula) related
to the common gannet, and found in the West Indies,
nesting on the bare rocks. It is so called on account
of its apparent stupidity -- unafraid of men, it
allows itself to be caught by a simple and undisguised
approach. The name is also sometimes applied to other
species of gannets; as, Sula piscator, the
red-footed booby; and Sula nebouxii, the
blue-footed booby.
(b) A species of penguin of the antarctic seas.
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Booby hatch
(a) (Naut.), a kind of wooden hood over a hatch, readily
removable.
(b), an insane asylum. [Colloq.]
Booby hut, a carriage body put upon sleigh runners. [Local,
U. S.] --Bartlett.
Booby hutch, a clumsy covered carriage or seat, used in the
eastern part of England. --Forby.
Booby prize, an award for the poorest performance in a
competition; hence, metaphorically, the recognition of a
strikingly inferior or incompetent performance.
Booby trap
(a), a schoolboy's practical joke, as a shower bath when a
door is opened.
(b), any concealed device causing surprise or injury when
a usually harmless object is touched; -- in military
operations, typically containing an explosive charge.
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Busbies
(gcide) | Busby \Bus"by\ (b[u^]z"b[y^]), n.; pl. Busbies (b[i^]z).
(Mil.)
A military headdress or cap, used in the British army. It is
of fur, with a bag, of the same color as the facings of the
regiment, hanging from the top over the right shoulder.
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Corbies
(gcide) | Corbie \Cor"bie\ or Corby \Cor"by\ (k[^o]r"b[y^]), n.; pl.
Corbies (-b[i^]z). [F. corbeau, OF. corbel, dim. fr. L.
corvus raven.]
1. (Zool.) The raven. [Scot.]
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2. (her.) A raven, crow, or chough, used as a charge.
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Corbie crow, the carrion crow. [Scot.]
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Corbiestep
(gcide) | Corbiestep \Cor"bie*step`\, n. (Arch.)
One of the steps in which a gable wall is often finished in
place of a continuous slope; -- also called crowstep.
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Darbies
(gcide) | Darbies \Dar"bies\ (d[aum]r"b[i^]z), n. pl.
Manacles; handcuffs. [Cant]
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Jem Clink will fetch you the darbies. --Sir W.
Scott.
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Note: In "The Steel Glass" by Gascoigne, printed in 1576,
occurs the line "To binde such babes in father Derbies
bands."
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Gobies
(gcide) | Goby \Go"by\, n.; pl. Gobies. [F. gobie, L. gobius, gobio, Gr.
? Cf. Gudgeon.] (Zool.)
One of several species of small marine fishes of the genus
Gobius and allied genera.
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Hang-bies
(gcide) | Hang-by \Hang"-by`\ (-b[imac]`), n.; pl. Hang-bies
(-b[imac]z`).
A dependent; a hanger-on; -- so called in contempt. --B.
Jonson.
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Hobbies
(gcide) | Hobby \Hob"by\, n.; pl. Hobbies. [OE. hobi; cf. OF. hobe,
hob['e], F. hobereau a hobby, a species of falcon. OF. hober
to move, stir. Cf. Hobby a horse.] (Zool.)
A small, strong-winged European falcon (Falco subbuteo),
formerly trained for hawking. Hobby |
Kohl-rabies
(gcide) | Kohl-rabi \Kohl"-ra`bi\, n.; pl. Kohl-rabies. [G. Cf. Cole,
Rape the plant.] (Bot.)
A variety of cabbage, in which the edible part is a large,
turnip-shaped swelling of the stem, above the surface of the
ground.
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Lobbies
(gcide) | Lobby \Lob"by\, n.; pl. Lobbies. [LL. lobium, lobia, laubia, a
covered portico fit for walking, fr. OHG. louba, G. laube,
arbor. See Lodge.]
1. (Arch.) A passage or hall of communication, especially
when large enough to serve also as a waiting room. It
differs from an antechamber in that a lobby communicates
between several rooms, an antechamber to one only; but
this distinction is not carefully preserved.
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2. That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the
official use of the assembly; hence, the persons,
collectively, who frequent such a place to transact
business with the legislators; hence: any persons, not
members of a legislative body, who strive to influence its
proceedings by personal agency; a group of lobbyists for a
particular cause; as, the drug industry lobby. [U. S.]
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3. (Naut.) An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an
old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.
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4. (Agric.) A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges.
trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard.
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Lobby member, a lobbyist. [Humorous cant, U. S.]
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Loobies
(gcide) | Looby \Loo"by\, n.; pl. Loobies. [Cf. Lob.]
An awkward, clumsy fellow; a lubber. --Swift.
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Rabbies
(gcide) | Rabbi \Rab"bi\ (r[a^]r"b[imac] or r[a^]r"b[i^]; 277), n.; pl.
Rabbis (r[a^]r"b[imac]z or r[a^]r"b[i^]z) or Rabbies.
[L., fr. Gr. "rabbi`, Heb. rab[imac] my master, from rab
master, lord, teacher, akin to Ar. rabb.]
Master; lord; teacher; -- a Jewish title of respect or honor
for a teacher or doctor of the law. "The gravest rabbies."
--Milton.
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Be not ye called Rabbi, for one is your Master, even
Christ, and all ye are brethren. --Matt. xxiii.
8.
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Rabies
(gcide) | Rabies \Ra"bi*es\ (r[=a]"b[i^]*[=e]z), n. [L. See Rage, n.]
Same as Hydrophobia
(b); canine madness.
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Rubies
(gcide) | Ruby \Ru"by\, n.; pl. Rubies. [F. rubis (cf. Pr. robi), LL.
rubinus, robinus, fr. L. rubeus red, reddish, akin to ruber.
See Rouge, red.]
1. (Min.) A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes
verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and
hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of
corundum.
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Note: Besides the true or Oriental ruby above defined, there
are the balas ruby, or ruby spinel, a red variety of
spinel, and the rock ruby, a red variety of garnet.
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Of rubies, sapphires, and pearles white.
--Chaucer.
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2. The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
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The natural ruby of your cheeks. --Shak.
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3. That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence,
a red blain or carbuncle.
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4. (Print.) See Agate, n., 2. [Eng.]
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5. (Zool.) Any species of South American humming birds of the
genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat
or breast.
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Ruby of arsenic, Ruby of sulphur (Chem.), a glassy
substance of a red color and a variable composition, but
always consisting chiefly of the disulphide of arsenic; --
called also ruby sulphur.
Ruby of zinc (Min.), zinc sulphide; the mineral zinc blende
or sphalerite.
Ruby silver (Min.), red silver. See under Red.
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Scabbiest
(gcide) | Scabby \Scab"by\, a. [Compar. Scabbier; superl. Scabbiest.]
1. Affected with scabs; full of scabs.
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2. Diseased with the scab, or mange; mangy. --Swift.
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Scabies
(gcide) | Scabies \Sca"bi*es\, n. (Med.)
The itch.
[1913 Webster]Itch \Itch\, n.
1. (Med.) An eruption of small, isolated, acuminated
vesicles, produced by the entrance of a parasitic mite
(the Sarcoptes scabei), and attended with itching. It is
transmissible by contact.
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2. Any itching eruption.
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3. A sensation in the skin occasioned (or resembling that
occasioned) by the itch eruption; -- called also
scabies, psora, etc.
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4. A constant irritating desire.
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An itch of being thought a divine king. --Dryden.
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Baker's itch. See under Baker.
Barber's itch, sycosis.
Bricklayer's itch, an eczema of the hands attended with
much itching, occurring among bricklayers.
Grocer's itch, an itching eruption, being a variety of
eczema, produced by the sugar mite ({Tyrogluphus
sacchari}).
Itch insect (Zool.), a small parasitic mite ({Sarcoptes
scabei}) which burrows and breeds beneath the human skin,
thus causing the disease known as the itch. See Illust. in
Append.
Itch mite. (Zool.) Same as Itch insect, above. Also,
other similar mites affecting the lower animals, as the
horse and ox.
Sugar baker's itch, a variety of eczema, due to the action
of sugar upon the skin.
Washerwoman's itch, eczema of the hands and arms, occurring
among washerwomen.
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scabies
(gcide) | Scabies \Sca"bi*es\, n. (Med.)
The itch.
[1913 Webster]Itch \Itch\, n.
1. (Med.) An eruption of small, isolated, acuminated
vesicles, produced by the entrance of a parasitic mite
(the Sarcoptes scabei), and attended with itching. It is
transmissible by contact.
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2. Any itching eruption.
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3. A sensation in the skin occasioned (or resembling that
occasioned) by the itch eruption; -- called also
scabies, psora, etc.
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4. A constant irritating desire.
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An itch of being thought a divine king. --Dryden.
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Baker's itch. See under Baker.
Barber's itch, sycosis.
Bricklayer's itch, an eczema of the hands attended with
much itching, occurring among bricklayers.
Grocer's itch, an itching eruption, being a variety of
eczema, produced by the sugar mite ({Tyrogluphus
sacchari}).
Itch insect (Zool.), a small parasitic mite ({Sarcoptes
scabei}) which burrows and breeds beneath the human skin,
thus causing the disease known as the itch. See Illust. in
Append.
Itch mite. (Zool.) Same as Itch insect, above. Also,
other similar mites affecting the lower animals, as the
horse and ox.
Sugar baker's itch, a variety of eczema, due to the action
of sugar upon the skin.
Washerwoman's itch, eczema of the hands and arms, occurring
among washerwomen.
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Scrubbiest
(gcide) | Scrubby \Scrub"by\ (skr[u^]b"b[y^]), a. [Compar. Scrubbier
(skr[u^]b"b[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Scrubbiest.]
Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth;
as, a scrubby cur. "Dense, scrubby woods." --Duke of Argyll.
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Shabbiest
(gcide) | Shabby \Shab"by\, a. [Compar. Shabbier; superl. Shabbiest.]
[See Shab, n., Scabby, and Scab.]
1. Torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged.
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Wearing shabby coats and dirty shirts. --Macaulay.
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2. Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments. "The
dean was so shabby." --Swift.
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3. Mean; paltry; despicable; as, shabby treatment. "Very
shabby fellows." --Clarendon.
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Shrubbiest
(gcide) | Shrubby \Shrub"by\, a. [Compar. Shrubbier; superl.
Shrubbiest.]
1. Full of shrubs.
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2. Of the nature of a shrub; resembling a shrub. "Shrubby
browse." --J. Philips.
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Slabbiest
(gcide) | Slabby \Slab"by\, a. [Compar. Slabbier; superl. Slabbiest.]
[See Slab, a.]
1. Thick; viscous.
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They present you with a cup, and you must drink of a
slabby stuff. --Selden.
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2. Sloppy; slimy; miry. See Sloppy. --Gay.
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Tabbies
(gcide) | Tabby \Tab"by\ (t[a^]b"b[y^]), n.; pl. Tabbies
(t[a^]b"b[i^]z). [F. tabis (cf. It. tab[`i], Sp. & Pg.
tab['i], LL. attabi), fr. Ar. 'att[=a]b[imac], properly the
name of a quarter of Bagdad where it was made, the quarter
being named from the prince Attab, great grandson of Omeyya.
Cf. Tobine.]
1. A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk,
manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The
watering is given to it by calendering.
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2. A mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal
proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry,
this becomes as hard as rock. --Weale.
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3. A brindled cat; hence, popularly, any cat.
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4. An old maid or gossip. [Colloq.] --Byron.
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Tiburcinia Scabies
(gcide) | Scab \Scab\ (sk[a^]b), n. [OE. scab, scabbe, shabbe; cf. AS.
scaeb, sceabb, scebb, Dan. & Sw. skab, and also L. scabies,
fr. scabere to scratch, akin to E. shave. See Shave, and
cf. Shab, Shabby.]
1. An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule,
formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased
part.
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2. The itch in man; also, the scurvy. [Colloq. or Obs.]
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3. The mange, esp. when it appears on sheep. --Chaucer.
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4. A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface,
caused by a minute fungus (Tiburcinia Scabies).
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5. (Founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces
the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a
part of the mold.
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6. A mean, dirty, paltry fellow. [Low] --Shak.
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7. A nickname for a workman who engages for lower wages than
are fixed by the trades unions; also, for one who takes
the place of a workman on a strike. [Cant]
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8. (Bot.) Any one of various more or less destructive fungus
diseases attacking cultivated plants, and usually forming
dark-colored crustlike spots.
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Wallabies
(gcide) | Wallaby \Wal"la*by\, n.; pl. Wallabies. [From a native name.]
(Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of kangaroos belonging to the
genus Halmaturus, native of Australia and Tasmania,
especially the smaller species, as the brush kangaroo
(Halmaturus Bennettii) and the pademelon ({Halmaturus
thetidis}). The wallabies chiefly inhabit the wooded district
and bushy plains. [Written also wallabee, and whallabee.]
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