Word Meanings - ANGLESITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A native sulphate of lead. It occurs in white or yellowish transparent, prismatic crystals.

• 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.
• Whitebeam
  The common beam tree of England (Pyrus Aria); -- so called from the white, woolly under surface of the leaves.
• 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.
• Yellowish
  Somewhat yellow; as, amber is of a yellowish color.
• WHITELIMED
  Whitewashed or plastered with lime. "White-limed walls." Shak.
• Whitebeard
  An old man; a graybeard.
• Whitebelly
  The American widgeon, or baldpate.
• Whitehead
  The blue-winged snow goose.
• Whitester
  A bleacher of linen; a whitener; a whitster.
• NATIVESTEEL
  A sort of steel which has been found where a burning coal seam had reduced and carbonized adjacent iron ore.
• WHITELIVERED
  Having a pale look; feeble; hence, cowardly; pusillanimous; dastardly. They must not be milksops, nor white-livered knights. Latimer.
• Whitebill
  The American coot.
• White-heart
  A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
• Whitetail
  The Virginia deer.
• PRISMATICPRISMATICAL
  Same as Orthorhombic. Prismatic borax (Chem.), borax crystallized in the form of oblique prisms, with ten molecules of water; -- distinguished from octahedral borax. -- Prismatic colors (Opt.), the seven colors into which light is resolved when passed

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