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A hydrous sulphate of alumina occurring in white reniform masses.

• 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.
• 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.
• WHITEBLAZE
  See White-face.
• WHITEPERSON
  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 per
• 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.
• WHITEPLAGUE
  Tuberculosis, esp. of the lungs.
• Whitebill
  The American coot.
• White-heart
  A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
• Whitetail
  The Virginia deer.
• WHITEELEPHANT
  Something requiring much care and expense and yielding little profit; any burdensome possession. [Slang]

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