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daisy
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daisy
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daisy
(encz) | daisy,skvost n: Zdeněk Brož |
Daisy
(gcide) | Daisy \Dai"sy\ (d[=a]"z[y^]), n.; pl. Daisies (d[=a]"z[i^]z).
[OE. dayesye, AS. d[ae]ges-e['a]ge day's eye, daisy. See
Day, and Eye.] (Bot.)
(a) A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family
Composit[ae]. The common English and classical daisy is
Bellis perennis, which has a yellow disk and white or
pinkish rays.
(b) The whiteweed (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), the plant
commonly called daisy in North America; -- called also
oxeye daisy. See Whiteweed.
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Note: The word daisy is also used for composite plants of
other genera, as Erigeron, or fleabane.
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Michaelmas daisy (Bot.), any plant of the genus Aster, of
which there are many species.
Oxeye daisy (Bot.), the whiteweed. See Daisy
(b) .
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daisy
(wn) | daisy
n 1: any of numerous composite plants having flower heads with
well-developed ray flowers usually arranged in a single
whorl |
daisy
(foldoc) | Daisy
A functional language.
["Daisy Programming Manual", S.D. Johnson, CS Dept TR, Indiana
U, 1988].
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common daisy
(encz) | common daisy, n: |
cowpen daisy
(encz) | cowpen daisy, n: |
crown daisy
(encz) | crown daisy, n: |
daisy bush
(encz) | daisy bush, n: |
daisy chain
(encz) | daisy chain,uzavřený řetěz n: [tech.] parkmaj |
daisy chains
(encz) | daisy chains,řetěz událostí n: [tech.] parkmaj |
daisy cutter
(encz) | daisy cutter, n: |
daisy fleabane
(encz) | daisy fleabane, n: |
daisy print wheel
(encz) | daisy print wheel, n: |
daisy wheel
(encz) | daisy wheel,kopretina [bot.] Martin Ligačdaisy wheel,typové kolečko n: tiskárna s typovým kolečkem Martin Ligač |
daisy-bush
(encz) | daisy-bush, n: |
daisy-chain
(encz) | daisy-chain, v: |
daisy-leaved grape fern
(encz) | daisy-leaved grape fern, n: |
daisybush
(encz) | daisybush, n: |
daisyleaf grape fern
(encz) | daisyleaf grape fern, n: |
daisylike
(encz) | daisylike, adj: |
daisywheel printer
(encz) | daisywheel printer, n: |
dwarf daisy
(encz) | dwarf daisy, n: |
easter daisy
(encz) | Easter daisy, |
english daisy
(encz) | English daisy, |
kingfisher daisy
(encz) | kingfisher daisy, n: |
lazy daisy stitch
(encz) | lazy daisy stitch, n: |
livingstone daisy
(encz) | livingstone daisy, n: |
marguerite daisy
(encz) | marguerite daisy, n: |
michaelmas daisy
(encz) | Michaelmas daisy, |
moon daisy
(encz) | moon daisy, n: |
mountain daisy
(encz) | mountain daisy, n: |
orange daisy
(encz) | orange daisy, n: |
ox-eyed daisy
(encz) | ox-eyed daisy, n: |
oxeye daisy
(encz) | oxeye daisy, n: |
painted daisy
(encz) | painted daisy, n: |
paris daisy
(encz) | Paris daisy, |
pink paper daisy
(encz) | pink paper daisy, n: |
seaside daisy
(encz) | seaside daisy, n: |
shasta daisy
(encz) | shasta daisy, n: |
showy daisy
(encz) | showy daisy, n: |
stemless daisy
(encz) | stemless daisy, n: |
tahoka daisy
(encz) | tahoka daisy, n: |
turfing daisy
(encz) | turfing daisy, n: |
white daisy
(encz) | white daisy, n: |
woolly daisy
(encz) | woolly daisy, n: |
yellow paper daisy
(encz) | yellow paper daisy, n: |
yellow spiny daisy
(encz) | yellow spiny daisy, n: |
Daisy
(gcide) | Daisy \Dai"sy\ (d[=a]"z[y^]), n.; pl. Daisies (d[=a]"z[i^]z).
[OE. dayesye, AS. d[ae]ges-e['a]ge day's eye, daisy. See
Day, and Eye.] (Bot.)
(a) A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family
Composit[ae]. The common English and classical daisy is
Bellis perennis, which has a yellow disk and white or
pinkish rays.
(b) The whiteweed (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), the plant
commonly called daisy in North America; -- called also
oxeye daisy. See Whiteweed.
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Note: The word daisy is also used for composite plants of
other genera, as Erigeron, or fleabane.
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Michaelmas daisy (Bot.), any plant of the genus Aster, of
which there are many species.
Oxeye daisy (Bot.), the whiteweed. See Daisy
(b) .
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daisy bush
(gcide) | daisybush \daisybush\, daisy bush \daisy bush\n.
any of various mostly Australian attractively shaped shrubs
of the genus Olearia grown for their handsome and sometimes
fragrant evergreen foliage and profusion of daisy flowers
with white or purple or blue rays.
Syn: .
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daisybush
(gcide) | daisybush \daisybush\, daisy bush \daisy bush\n.
any of various mostly Australian attractively shaped shrubs
of the genus Olearia grown for their handsome and sometimes
fragrant evergreen foliage and profusion of daisy flowers
with white or purple or blue rays.
Syn: .
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Globe daisy
(gcide) | Globe \Globe\ (gl[=o]b), n. [L. globus, perh. akin to L. glomus
a ball of yarn, and E. clump, golf: cf. F. globe.]
1. A round or spherical body, solid or hollow; a body whose
surface is in every part equidistant from the center; a
ball; a sphere.
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2. Anything which is nearly spherical or globular in shape;
as, the globe of the eye; the globe of a lamp.
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3. The earth; the terraqueous ball; -- usually preceded by
the definite article. --Locke.
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4. A round model of the world; a spherical representation of
the earth or heavens; as, a terrestrial or celestial
globe; -- called also artificial globe.
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5. A body of troops, or of men or animals, drawn up in a
circle; -- a military formation used by the Romans,
answering to the modern infantry square.
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Him round
A globe of fiery seraphim inclosed. --Milton.
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Globe amaranth (Bot.), a plant of the genus Gomphrena
(G. globosa), bearing round heads of variously colored
flowers, which long retain color when gathered.
Globe animalcule, a small, globular, locomotive organism
(Volvox globator), once throught to be an animal,
afterward supposed to be a colony of microscopic alg[ae].
Globe of compression (Mil.), a kind of mine producing a
wide crater; -- called also overcharged mine.
Globe daisy (Bot.), a plant or flower of the genus
Globularing, common in Europe. The flowers are minute
and form globular heads.
Globe sight, a form of front sight placed on target rifles.
Globe slater (Zool.), an isopod crustacean of the genus
Spheroma.
Globe thistle (Bot.), a thistlelike plant with the flowers
in large globular heads (Cynara Scolymus); also, certain
species of the related genus Echinops.
Globe valve.
(a) A ball valve.
(b) A valve inclosed in a globular chamber. --Knight.
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Syn: Globe, Sphere, Orb, Ball.
Usage: Globe denotes a round, and usually a solid body;
sphere is the term applied in astronomy to such a
body, or to the concentric spheres or orbs of the old
astronomers; orb is used, especially in poetry, for
globe or sphere, and also for the pathway of a
heavenly body; ball is applied to the heavenly bodies
concieved of as impelled through space.
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Lackadaisy
(gcide) | Lackadaisy \Lack"a*dai`sy\, interj. [From Lackaday, interj.]
An expression of languor.
[1913 Webster]Lackadaisy \Lack"a*dai`sy\, a.
Lackadaisical.
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Michaelmas daisy
(gcide) | Michaelmas \Mich"ael*mas\, n. [Michael + mass religious service;
OE. Mighelmesse.]
The feast of the archangel Michael, a church festival,
celebrated on the 29th of September. Hence, colloquially,
autumn.
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Michaelmas daisy. (Bot.) See under Daisy.
[1913 Webster]Daisy \Dai"sy\ (d[=a]"z[y^]), n.; pl. Daisies (d[=a]"z[i^]z).
[OE. dayesye, AS. d[ae]ges-e['a]ge day's eye, daisy. See
Day, and Eye.] (Bot.)
(a) A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family
Composit[ae]. The common English and classical daisy is
Bellis perennis, which has a yellow disk and white or
pinkish rays.
(b) The whiteweed (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), the plant
commonly called daisy in North America; -- called also
oxeye daisy. See Whiteweed.
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Note: The word daisy is also used for composite plants of
other genera, as Erigeron, or fleabane.
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Michaelmas daisy (Bot.), any plant of the genus Aster, of
which there are many species.
Oxeye daisy (Bot.), the whiteweed. See Daisy
(b) .
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Midsummer daisy
(gcide) | Midsummer \Mid"sum`mer\, n. [AS. midsumor.]
The middle of summer. --Shak.
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Midsummer daisy (Bot.), the oxeye daisy.
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moon daisy
(gcide) | Moonflower \Moon"flow`er\, n. (Bot.)
(a) The oxeye daisy; -- called also moon daisy.
(b) A kind of morning glory (Ipomoea Bona-nox) with large
white flowers opening at night.
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oxeye daisy
(gcide) | Whiteweed \White"weed`\, n. (Bot.)
A perennial composite herb (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum)
with conspicuous white rays and a yellow disk, a common weed
in grass lands and pastures; -- called also oxeye daisy.
[1913 Webster]Daisy \Dai"sy\ (d[=a]"z[y^]), n.; pl. Daisies (d[=a]"z[i^]z).
[OE. dayesye, AS. d[ae]ges-e['a]ge day's eye, daisy. See
Day, and Eye.] (Bot.)
(a) A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family
Composit[ae]. The common English and classical daisy is
Bellis perennis, which has a yellow disk and white or
pinkish rays.
(b) The whiteweed (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), the plant
commonly called daisy in North America; -- called also
oxeye daisy. See Whiteweed.
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Note: The word daisy is also used for composite plants of
other genera, as Erigeron, or fleabane.
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Michaelmas daisy (Bot.), any plant of the genus Aster, of
which there are many species.
Oxeye daisy (Bot.), the whiteweed. See Daisy
(b) .
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Oxeye daisy
(gcide) | Whiteweed \White"weed`\, n. (Bot.)
A perennial composite herb (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum)
with conspicuous white rays and a yellow disk, a common weed
in grass lands and pastures; -- called also oxeye daisy.
[1913 Webster]Daisy \Dai"sy\ (d[=a]"z[y^]), n.; pl. Daisies (d[=a]"z[i^]z).
[OE. dayesye, AS. d[ae]ges-e['a]ge day's eye, daisy. See
Day, and Eye.] (Bot.)
(a) A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family
Composit[ae]. The common English and classical daisy is
Bellis perennis, which has a yellow disk and white or
pinkish rays.
(b) The whiteweed (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), the plant
commonly called daisy in North America; -- called also
oxeye daisy. See Whiteweed.
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Note: The word daisy is also used for composite plants of
other genera, as Erigeron, or fleabane.
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Michaelmas daisy (Bot.), any plant of the genus Aster, of
which there are many species.
Oxeye daisy (Bot.), the whiteweed. See Daisy
(b) .
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oxeye daisy
(gcide) | Whiteweed \White"weed`\, n. (Bot.)
A perennial composite herb (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum)
with conspicuous white rays and a yellow disk, a common weed
in grass lands and pastures; -- called also oxeye daisy.
[1913 Webster]Daisy \Dai"sy\ (d[=a]"z[y^]), n.; pl. Daisies (d[=a]"z[i^]z).
[OE. dayesye, AS. d[ae]ges-e['a]ge day's eye, daisy. See
Day, and Eye.] (Bot.)
(a) A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family
Composit[ae]. The common English and classical daisy is
Bellis perennis, which has a yellow disk and white or
pinkish rays.
(b) The whiteweed (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), the plant
commonly called daisy in North America; -- called also
oxeye daisy. See Whiteweed.
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Note: The word daisy is also used for composite plants of
other genera, as Erigeron, or fleabane.
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Michaelmas daisy (Bot.), any plant of the genus Aster, of
which there are many species.
Oxeye daisy (Bot.), the whiteweed. See Daisy
(b) .
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Shasta daisy
(gcide) | Shasta daisy \Shasta daisy\
A large-flowered garden variety of the oxeye daisy.
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White daisy
(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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african daisy
(wn) | African daisy
n 1: shrub of southwestern Mediterranean region having yellow
daisylike flowers [syn: African daisy, yellow ageratum,
Lonas inodora, Lonas annua]
2: African or Asiatic herbs with daisylike flowers
3: any of several plants of the genus Arctotis having daisylike
flowers |
barberton daisy
(wn) | Barberton daisy
n 1: widely cultivated South African perennial having flower
heads with orange to flame-colored rays [syn: {Barberton
daisy}, Transvaal daisy, Gerbera jamesonii] |
blackfoot daisy
(wn) | blackfoot daisy
n 1: bushy subshrub having flower heads that resemble asters
with broad white rays; found in desert areas of Arizona
east to Kansas and south to Mexico [syn: blackfoot daisy,
Melampodium leucanthum] |
blue daisy
(wn) | blue daisy
n 1: hairy South African or Australian subshrub that has
daisylike flowers with blue rays [syn: blue daisy, {blue
marguerite}, Felicia amelloides] |
blue-eyed african daisy
(wn) | blue-eyed African daisy
n 1: bushy perennial of South Africa with white or violet
flowers; in its native region often clothes entire valley
sides in a sheet of color [syn: blue-eyed African daisy,
Arctotis stoechadifolia, Arctotis venusta] |
butter daisy
(wn) | butter daisy
n 1: coarse greyish-green annual yellow-flowered herb;
southwestern United States to Mexico [syn: cowpen daisy,
golden crownbeard, golden crown beard, butter daisy,
Verbesina encelioides, Ximenesia encelioides] |
camphor daisy
(wn) | camphor daisy
n 1: annual of southern United States and Mexico having bristly
leaves and pale yellow flowers [syn: camphor daisy,
Haplopappus phyllocephalus] |
common daisy
(wn) | common daisy
n 1: low-growing Eurasian plant with yellow central disc flowers
and pinkish-white outer ray flowers [syn: common daisy,
English daisy, Bellis perennis] |
cowpen daisy
(wn) | cowpen daisy
n 1: coarse greyish-green annual yellow-flowered herb;
southwestern United States to Mexico [syn: cowpen daisy,
golden crownbeard, golden crown beard, butter daisy,
Verbesina encelioides, Ximenesia encelioides] |
crown daisy
(wn) | crown daisy
n 1: shrubby annual of the Mediterranean region with yellowish-
white flowers [syn: crown daisy, {Chrysanthemum
coronarium}] |
daisy bush
(wn) | daisy bush
n 1: any of various mostly Australian attractively shaped shrubs
of the genus Olearia grown for their handsome and sometimes
fragrant evergreen foliage and profusion of daisy flowers
with white or purple or blue rays [syn: daisybush,
daisy-bush, daisy bush] |
daisy chain
(wn) | daisy chain
n 1: (figurative) a series of associated things or people or
experiences
2: flower chain consisting of a string of daisies linked by
their stems; worn by students on class day at some schools |
daisy cutter
(wn) | daisy cutter
n 1: a bomb with only 10 to 20 per cent explosive and the
remainder consisting of casings designed to break into many
small high-velocity fragments; most effective against
troops and vehicles [syn: fragmentation bomb,
antipersonnel bomb, anti-personnel bomb, {daisy
cutter}]
2: a batted or served ball that skims along close to the ground |
daisy fleabane
(wn) | daisy fleabane
n 1: widely naturalized white-flowered North American herb [syn:
daisy fleabane, Erigeron annuus] |
daisy print wheel
(wn) | daisy print wheel
n 1: a wheel around which is a set of print characters that make
a typing impression on paper [syn: daisy print wheel,
daisy wheel] |
daisy wheel
(wn) | daisy wheel
n 1: a wheel around which is a set of print characters that make
a typing impression on paper [syn: daisy print wheel,
daisy wheel] |
daisy-bush
(wn) | daisy-bush
n 1: any of various mostly Australian attractively shaped shrubs
of the genus Olearia grown for their handsome and sometimes
fragrant evergreen foliage and profusion of daisy flowers
with white or purple or blue rays [syn: daisybush,
daisy-bush, daisy bush] |
daisy-chain
(wn) | daisy-chain
v 1: connect devices on a part of a chip or circuit board in a
computer |
daisy-leaved grape fern
(wn) | daisy-leaved grape fern
n 1: of North America and Eurasia [syn: daisyleaf grape fern,
daisy-leaved grape fern, Botrychium matricariifolium] |
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