Word Meanings - STEARONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The ketone of stearic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, (C17H35)2.CO, by the distillation of calcium stearate.

• 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.
• WHITEHORSE
  A large mass of tough sinewy substance in the head of sperm whales, just above the upper jaw and extending in streaks into the junk above it. It resembles blubber, but contains no oil. Also, the part of the head in which it occurs.
• White-face
  A white mark in the forehead of a horse, descending almost to the nose; -- called also white-blaze.
• Whitefish
  Any one of several species of Coregonus, a genus of excellent food fishes allied to the salmons. They inhabit the lakes of the colder parts of North America, Asia, and Europe. The largest and most important American species (C. clupeiformis) is ab
• White-pot
  A kind of food made of milk or cream, eggs, sugar, bread, etc., baked in a pot.
• Whiteweed
  A perennial composite herb (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum) with conspicuous white rays and a yellow disk, a common weed in grass lands and pastures; -- called also oxeye daisy.
• 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.
• Whiteback
  The canvasback.
• 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.

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