| slovo | definícia |
mug
(mass) | mug
- ksicht, prepadnúť |
mug
(encz) | mug,džbán n: Zdeněk Brož |
mug
(encz) | mug,džbánek n: Zdeněk Brož |
mug
(encz) | mug,hrneček n: Zdeněk Brož |
mug
(encz) | mug,hrnek n: |
mug
(encz) | mug,ksicht n: Zdeněk Brož |
Mug
(gcide) | Mug \Mug\ (m[u^]g), n. [Cf. Ir. mugam a mug, mucog a cup.]
1. A kind of ceramic or metal drinking cup, with a handle, --
usually cylindrical and without a lip.
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2. The face or mouth; as, I don't want to see your ugly mug
again; -- often used contemptuously. [Slang] --Thackeray.
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mug
(gcide) | mug \mug\ (m[u^]g), v. t.
To take property from (a person) in a public place by
threatening or committing violence on the person who is
robbed; to rob, especially to rob by use of a weapon such as
a knife or gun.
Note: To rob a person or a business indoors is not usually
referred to as to mug, but to stick up or hold up.
Syn: rob, stick up
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mug
(wn) | mug
n 1: the quantity that can be held in a mug [syn: mug,
mugful]
2: a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of [syn:
chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy,
sucker, soft touch, mug]
3: the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal
terms for `face' and `phiz' is British) [syn: countenance,
physiognomy, phiz, visage, kisser, smiler, mug]
4: with handle and usually cylindrical
v 1: rob at gunpoint or with the threat of violence; "I was
mugged in the streets of New York last night" |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
beer mug
(encz) | beer mug,půllitr n: pivní sklenice bez ohledu na objem Ritchie |
chaulmugra
(encz) | chaulmugra, n: |
coffee mug
(encz) | coffee mug, n: |
common mugwort
(encz) | common mugwort, n: |
hugger mugger
(encz) | hugger mugger, v: |
hugger-mugger
(encz) | hugger-mugger, n: |
mug shot
(encz) | mug shot,policejní fotografie zločince Zdeněk Brož |
mug up
(encz) | mug up,intenzivně studovat Zdeněk Brož |
mugger
(encz) | mugger,krokodýl bahenní Martin M.mugger,lupič n: Zdeněk Brožmugger,zloděj a násilník Martin M. |
muggers
(encz) | muggers,lupiči n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
muggier
(encz) | muggier,dusnější adj: Zdeněk Brož |
mugginess
(encz) | mugginess,dusno n: Zdeněk Brož |
mugging
(encz) | mugging,loupežné přepadení n: Zdeněk Brožmugging,přepadení n: Zdeněk Brožmugging,přepadení spojené s násilím Martin M. |
muggins
(encz) | muggins,hlupák n: Roman Hubáček |
muggle
(encz) | muggle,nekouzelník n: z Harryho Pottera Pavel Machek |
muggy
(encz) | muggy,dusný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
mugs
(encz) | mugs,hrnky n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
mugshot
(encz) | mugshot,policejní fotografie zločince n: Zdeněk Brož |
mugwump
(encz) | mugwump,hlavoun n: Zdeněk Brožmugwump,nestranný v politice n: Kalousekmugwump,oportunista n: Zdeněk Brožmugwump,zvíře v politice Zdeněk Brož |
smug
(encz) | smug,arogantní adj: Zdeněk Brožsmug,domýšlivý adj: Zdeněk Brožsmug,nafoukaný adj: Zdeněk Brožsmug,samolibý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
smuggle
(encz) | smuggle,pašovat v: Petr Prášek |
smuggled
(encz) | smuggled,pašovaný adj: Petr Prášek |
smuggler
(encz) | smuggler,pašerácká loď n: Petr Prášeksmuggler,pašerák n: Petr Prášek |
smugglers
(encz) | smugglers,pašeráci n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
smuggling
(encz) | smuggling,pašeráctví n: Zdeněk Brožsmuggling,pašování n: Petr Prášek |
smugly
(encz) | smugly,arogantně adv: Zdeněk Brožsmugly,domýšlivě adv: Zdeněk Brožsmugly,nafoukaně adv: Zdeněk Brožsmugly,samolibě adv: Zdeněk Brož |
smugness
(encz) | smugness,nafoukanost n: Zdeněk Brož |
suborder mugiloidea
(encz) | suborder Mugiloidea, n: |
thunder mug
(encz) | thunder mug, n: |
western mugwort
(encz) | western mugwort, n: |
Almug
(gcide) | Almug \Al"mug\, Algum \Al"gum\, n. [Heb., perh. borrowed fr.
Skr. valguka sandalwood.] (Script.)
A tree or wood of the Bible (2 Chron. ii. 8; 1 K. x. 11).
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Note: Most writers at the present day follow Celsius, who
takes it to be the red sandalwood of China and the
Indian Archipelago. --W. Smith.
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Hugger-mugger
(gcide) | Hugger-mugger \Hug"ger-mug`ger\, n. [Scot. huggrie-muggrie;
Prov. E. hugger to lie in ambush, mug mist, muggard sullen.]
1. Privacy; secrecy. Commonly in the phrase in hugger-mugger,
with haste and secrecy. [Archaic]
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Many things have been done in hugger-mugger.
--Fuller.
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2. Confusion; disorder.
[PJC]Hugger-mugger \Hug"ger-mug`ger\, a.
1. Secret; clandestine; sly.
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2. Confused; disorderly; slovenly; mean; as, hugger-mugger
doings.
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Mug
(gcide) | Mug \Mug\ (m[u^]g), n. [Cf. Ir. mugam a mug, mucog a cup.]
1. A kind of ceramic or metal drinking cup, with a handle, --
usually cylindrical and without a lip.
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2. The face or mouth; as, I don't want to see your ugly mug
again; -- often used contemptuously. [Slang] --Thackeray.
[1913 Webster +PJC]mug \mug\ (m[u^]g), v. t.
To take property from (a person) in a public place by
threatening or committing violence on the person who is
robbed; to rob, especially to rob by use of a weapon such as
a knife or gun.
Note: To rob a person or a business indoors is not usually
referred to as to mug, but to stick up or hold up.
Syn: rob, stick up
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mugful
(gcide) | mugful \mugful\ n.
the quantity that can be held in a mug.
Syn: mug.
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Muggar
(gcide) | Mugger \Mug"ger\, n. Also Muggar \Mug"gar\, Muggur \Mug"gur\
[Hind. magar, fr. Skr. makara sea monster.]
The common crocodile (Crocodilus palustris) of India, the
East Indies, etc. It becomes twelve feet or more long.
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Muggard
(gcide) | Muggard \Mug"gard\, a. [Cf. G. mucker a sulky person, muckish
sullen, peevish, mucken to mutter, grumble.]
Sullen; displeased. [Obs.]
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Mugger |
Mugger
(gcide) | Mugger \Mug"ger\, n. Also Muggar \Mug"gar\, Muggur \Mug"gur\
[Hind. magar, fr. Skr. makara sea monster.]
The common crocodile (Crocodilus palustris) of India, the
East Indies, etc. It becomes twelve feet or more long.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]mugger \mugger\ n.
A thief who takes property by threatening (or performing)
violence on the person who is robbed; a person who commits a
mugging; one who mugs. See mug, v. t.
Syn: robber
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mugger
(gcide) | Mugger \Mug"ger\, n. Also Muggar \Mug"gar\, Muggur \Mug"gur\
[Hind. magar, fr. Skr. makara sea monster.]
The common crocodile (Crocodilus palustris) of India, the
East Indies, etc. It becomes twelve feet or more long.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]mugger \mugger\ n.
A thief who takes property by threatening (or performing)
violence on the person who is robbed; a person who commits a
mugging; one who mugs. See mug, v. t.
Syn: robber
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Mugget
(gcide) | Mugget \Mug"get\, n.
The small entrails of a calf or a hog.
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Muggier
(gcide) | Muggy \Mug"gy\ (m[u^]g"g[y^]), a. [Compar. Muggier
(m[u^]g"g[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Muggiest.] [Cf. Icel. mugga
mist, mugginess. Cf. 4th Mold.]
1. Moist; damp; moldy; as, muggy straw.
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2. Warm, damp, and windless; uncomfortably hot and humid;
sultry; as, muggy air, weather.
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Muggiest
(gcide) | Muggy \Mug"gy\ (m[u^]g"g[y^]), a. [Compar. Muggier
(m[u^]g"g[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Muggiest.] [Cf. Icel. mugga
mist, mugginess. Cf. 4th Mold.]
1. Moist; damp; moldy; as, muggy straw.
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2. Warm, damp, and windless; uncomfortably hot and humid;
sultry; as, muggy air, weather.
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Mugginess
(gcide) | Mugginess \Mug"gi*ness\, n.
The condition or quality of being muggy.
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Mugging
(gcide) | Mugging \Mug"ging\, n. [p. pr. & vb. n. from mug, v.]
A robbery; a taking of property by threatening (or
performing) violence on the person who is robbed. See mug,
v.
Syn: robbery, holdup, stickup
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Muggins
(gcide) | Muggins \Mug"gins\, n. [Etym. unknown.]
1. A game of dominoes in which the object is to make the sum
of the two ends of the line some multiple of five.
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2. A game at cards which depends upon building in suits or
matching exposed cards, the object being to get rid of
one's cards.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]Muggins \Mug"gins\, v. t.
In certain games, to score against, or take an advantage over
(an opponent), as for an error, announcing the act by saying
"muggins."
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Muggish
(gcide) | Muggish \Mug"gish\, a.
See Muggy.
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Muggletonian
(gcide) | Muggletonian \Mug`gle*to"ni*an\, n. (Eccl. Hist.)
One of an extinct sect, named after Ludovic Muggleton, an
English journeyman tailor, who (about 1657) claimed to be
inspired. --Eadie.
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Muggur
(gcide) | Mugger \Mug"ger\, n. Also Muggar \Mug"gar\, Muggur \Mug"gur\
[Hind. magar, fr. Skr. makara sea monster.]
The common crocodile (Crocodilus palustris) of India, the
East Indies, etc. It becomes twelve feet or more long.
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Muggy
(gcide) | Muggy \Mug"gy\ (m[u^]g"g[y^]), a. [Compar. Muggier
(m[u^]g"g[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Muggiest.] [Cf. Icel. mugga
mist, mugginess. Cf. 4th Mold.]
1. Moist; damp; moldy; as, muggy straw.
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2. Warm, damp, and windless; uncomfortably hot and humid;
sultry; as, muggy air, weather.
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Mughouse
(gcide) | Mughouse \Mug"house`\ (m[u^]g"hous`), n.
An alehouse; a pothouse. --Tickel.
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Mugiency
(gcide) | Mugiency \Mu"gi*en*cy\, n.
A bellowing. [Obs.]
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Mugient
(gcide) | Mugient \Mu"gi*ent\, a. [L. mugiens, p. pr. of mugire to
bellow.]
Lowing; bellowing. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
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Mugil
(gcide) | Mugil \Mu"gil\, prop. n. [L., a sort of fish.] (Zool.)
A genus of fishes including the gray mullets. See Mullet.
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Mugil capito
(gcide) | Mullet \Mul"let\, n. [OE. molet, mulet, F. mulet, fr. L.
mullus.]
1. (Zool.) Any one of numerous fishes of the genus Mugil; --
called also gray mullets. They are found on the coasts
of both continents, and are highly esteemed as food. Among
the most valuable species are Mugil capito of Europe,
and Mugil cephalus which occurs both on the European and
American coasts.
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2. (Zool.) Any species of the genus Mullus, or family
Mullidae; called also red mullet, and surmullet,
esp. the plain surmullet (Mullus barbatus), and the
striped surmullet (Mullus surmulletus) of Southern
Europe. The former is the mullet of the Romans. It is
noted for the brilliancy of its colors. See Surmullet.
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French mullet. See Ladyfish
(a) .
[1913 Webster]Bouri \Bou"ri\, n. [Native name.] (Zool.)
A mullet (Mugil capito) found in the rivers of Southern
Europe and in Africa.
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Mugil cephalus
(gcide) | Macho \Ma"cho\, n. [Sp.] (Zool.)
The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, syn.
Mugil Mexicanus).
[1913 Webster +PJC]Mullet \Mul"let\, n. [OE. molet, mulet, F. mulet, fr. L.
mullus.]
1. (Zool.) Any one of numerous fishes of the genus Mugil; --
called also gray mullets. They are found on the coasts
of both continents, and are highly esteemed as food. Among
the most valuable species are Mugil capito of Europe,
and Mugil cephalus which occurs both on the European and
American coasts.
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2. (Zool.) Any species of the genus Mullus, or family
Mullidae; called also red mullet, and surmullet,
esp. the plain surmullet (Mullus barbatus), and the
striped surmullet (Mullus surmulletus) of Southern
Europe. The former is the mullet of the Romans. It is
noted for the brilliancy of its colors. See Surmullet.
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French mullet. See Ladyfish
(a) .
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Mugil curema
(gcide) | Liza \Li"za\, n. (Zool.)
The American white mullet (Mugil curema).
[1913 Webster]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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Mugil Mexicanus
(gcide) | Macho \Ma"cho\, n. [Sp.] (Zool.)
The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, syn.
Mugil Mexicanus).
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Mugilidae
(gcide) | Mugilidae \Mugilidae\ prop. n.
A natural family of fish including the gray mullets.
Syn: family Mugilidae.
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Mugilidae albula
(gcide) | Gray \Gray\ (gr[=a]), a. [Compar. Grayer; superl. Grayest.]
[OE. gray, grey, AS. gr[=ae]g, gr[=e]g; akin to D. graauw,
OHG. gr[=a]o, G. grau, Dan. graa, Sw. gr[*a], Icel. gr[=a]r.]
[Written also grey.]
1. any color of neutral hue between white and black; white
mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of
ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed
color; as, the soft gray eye of a dove.
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These gray and dun colors may be also produced by
mixing whites and blacks. --Sir I.
Newton.
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2. Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.
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3. Old; mature; as, gray experience. -- Ames.
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4. gloomy; dismal.
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Gray antimony (Min.), stibnite.
Gray buck (Zool.), the chickara.
Gray cobalt (Min.), smaltite.
Gray copper (Min.), tetrahedrite.
Gray duck (Zool.), the gadwall; also applied to the female
mallard.
Gray falcon (Zool.) the peregrine falcon.
Gray Friar. See Franciscan, and Friar.
Gray hen (Zool.), the female of the blackcock or black
grouse. See Heath grouse.
Gray mill or Gray millet (Bot.), a name of several plants
of the genus Lithospermum; gromwell.
Gray mullet (Zool.) any one of the numerous species of the
genus Mugil, or family Mugilid[ae], found both in the
Old World and America; as the European species
(Mugilid[ae] capito, and Mugilid[ae] auratus), the
American striped mullet (Mugilid[ae] albula), and the
white or silver mullet (Mugilid[ae] Braziliensis). See
Mullet.
Gray owl (Zool.), the European tawny or brown owl ({Syrnium
aluco}). The great gray owl (Ulula cinerea) inhabits
arctic America.
Gray parrot (Zool.), an African parrot ({Psittacus
erithacus}), very commonly domesticated, and noted for its
aptness in learning to talk. Also called jako.
Gray pike. (Zool.) See Sauger.
Gray snapper (Zool.), a Florida fish; the sea lawyer. See
Snapper.
Gray snipe (Zool.), the dowitcher in winter plumage.
Gray whale (Zool.), a rather large and swift whale of the
northern Pacific (Eschrichtius robustus, formerly
Rhachianectes glaucus), having short jaws and no dorsal
fin. It grows to a length of 50 feet (someimes 60 feet).
It was formerly taken in large numbers in the bays of
California, and is now rare; -- called also grayback,
devilfish, and hardhead. It lives up to 50 or 60 years
and adults weigh from 20 to 40 tons.
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