Word Meanings - AFRICANDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.

• WHITEHOT
  White with heat; heated to whiteness, or incandescence.
• Father-in-law
  The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in-law and daughter-in-law.
• Motherliness
  The state or quality of being motherly.
• Southernwood
  A shrubby species of wormwood (Artemisia Abrotanum) having aromatic foliage. It is sometimes used in making beer.
• White-eye
  Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops palpebrosus of India, and Z. c/rulescens of Australia. The eyes are encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. Called also bush creeper, and wh
• Whitener
  One who, or that which, whitens; a bleacher; a blancher; a whitewasher.
• Whitewasher
  One who whitewashes.
• MOTHEROFPEARL
  The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
• Color-blind
  Affected with color blindness. See Color blindness, under Color, n.
• WHITELIMED
  Whitewashed or plastered with lime. "White-limed walls." Shak.
• Fatherland
  One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.
• Motherly
  Of or pertaining to a mother; like, or suitable for, a mother; tender; maternal; as, motherly authority, love, or care.
• White-face
  A white mark in the forehead of a horse, descending almost to the nose; -- called also white-blaze.
• Whiteness
  The quality or state of being white; white color, or freedom from darkness or obscurity on the surface.
• White-water
  A dangerous disease of sheep.
• MOTHEROFTHYME
  An aromatic plant (Thymus Serphyllum); -- called also wild thyme.
• Colorific
  Capable of communicating color or tint to other bodies.
• Colorimeter
  An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.
• WHITELIVERED
  Having a pale look; feeble; hence, cowardly; pusillanimous; dastardly. They must not be milksops, nor white-livered knights. Latimer.

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