Word Meanings - WHITEPERSON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A person of the Caucasian race (6 Fed. Rep. 256). In the time of slavery in the United States white person was generally construed as a person without admixture of colored blood. In various statutes and decisions in different States since 1865 white person is construed as in effect: one not having any negro blood (Ark., Okla.); one having less than one eighth of negro blood (Ala., Fla., Ga., Ind., Ky., Md., Minn., Miss., Mo., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Tex.); one having less than one fourth (Mich., Neb., Ore., Va.); one having less than one half (Ohio).

• BLOODBOLTERED
  Having the hair matted with clotted blood. [Obs. & R.] The blood-boltered Banquo smiles upon me. Shak.
• Bloodletting
  The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection.
• Personalize
  To make personal.
• STATESOCIALISM
  A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to give or maintain
• Bloodwit
  A fine or amercement paid as a composition for the shedding of blood; also, a riot wherein blood was spilled.
• 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.
• Colorado beetle
  A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. S
• Unitarian
  One who denies the doctrine of the Trinity, believing that God exists only in one person; a unipersonalist; also, one of a denomination of Christians holding this belief.
• Construct
  To put together the constituent parts of (something) in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edifice.
• Unitizing
  of Unitize
• Differentia
  The formal or distinguishing part of the essence of a species; the characteristic attribute of a species; specific difference.
• Whiteblow
  Same as Whitlow grass, under Whitlow.
• Effectless
  Without effect or advantage; useless; bootless.
• White-limed
  Whitewashed or plastered with lime.
• Generally
  In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently.
• 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
• Negroes
  of Negro
• BLOODSHOTTEN
  Bloodshot. [Obs.]

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