Word Meanings - SILVERWEED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A perennial rosaceous herb (Potentilla Anserina) having the leaves silvery white beneath.

• Whitethorn
  The hawthorn.
• WHITEELEPHANT
  Something requiring much care and expense and yielding little profit; any burdensome possession. [Slang]
• WHITEPOT
  A kind of food made of milk or cream, eggs, sugar, bread, etc., baked in a pot. King.
• Havildar
  In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.
• White-blaze
  See White-face.
• White-hot
  White with heat; heated to whiteness, or incandescence.
• Whitethroat
  Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species (Sylvia cinerea), called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler (S. hortensis), and the lesser whitethroat (S. c
• WHITEEYE
  Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops palpebrosus of India, and Z. coerulescens of Australia. The eyes are encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. Called also bush creeper, and white-e
• WHITESLAVE
  A woman held in involuntary confinement for purposes of prostitution; loosely, any woman forced into unwilling prostitution.
• Whiteblow
  Same as Whitlow grass, under Whitlow.
• White-limed
  Whitewashed or plastered with lime.
• Whitetop
  Fiorin.
• WHITEFACE
  A white mark in the forehead of a horse, descending almost to the nose; -- called also white-blaze.
• WHITESLAVER
  A person engaged in procuring or holding a woman or women for unwilling prostitution.
• Beneath
  Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of.
• Whiteboy
  A favorite.
• White-livered
  Having a pale look; feeble; hence, cowardly; pusillanimous; dastardly.
• Whitewall
  The spotted flycatcher; -- so called from the white color of the under parts.

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