Word Meanings - ALBURNUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and the hard wood or duramen; sapwood.

• Whiteback
  The canvasback.
• Whiteflaw
  A whitlow.
• Whiterump
  The American black-tailed godwit.
• Whitewing
  The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing.
• WHITELIMED
  Whitewashed or plastered with lime. "White-limed walls." Shak.
• Whitebait
  The young of several species of herrings, especially of the common herring, esteemed a great delicacy by epicures in England.
• White-foot
  A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin.
• Whitewood
  The soft and easily-worked wood of the tulip tree (Liriodendron). It is much used in cabinetwork, carriage building, etc.
• WHITELIVERED
  Having a pale look; feeble; hence, cowardly; pusillanimous; dastardly. They must not be milksops, nor white-livered knights. Latimer.
• Whitebeam
  The common beam tree of England (Pyrus Aria); -- so called from the white, woolly under surface of the leaves.
• White friar
  A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. See Carmelite.
• Whiteside
  The golden-eye.
• Whitewort
  Wild camomile.
• WHITEMUSTARD
  A kind of mustard (Sinapis alba) with rough-hairy foliage, a long-beaked hispid pod, and pale seeds, which yield mustard and mustard oil. The plant is also grown for forage.
• Whitebeard
  An old man; a graybeard.
• White-fronted
  Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur.
• Whitesmith
  One who works in tinned or galvanized iron, or white iron; a tinsmith.

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