Word Meanings - WHITEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To grow white; to turn or become white or whiter; as, the hair whitens with age; the sea whitens with foam; the trees in spring whiten with blossoms.

• Whitebeam
  The common beam tree of England (Pyrus Aria); -- so called from the white, woolly under surface of the leaves.
• 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.
• Sprawled
  of Sprawl
• Whitewort
  Wild camomile.
• Spreynd
  p. p. of Sprenge. Sprinkled.
• WHITEFLY
  Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.
• Springall
  An active, springly young man.
• WHITESLAVING
  The action of one who procures or holds a woman or women for unwilling prostitution.
• Sprinkling
  of Sprinkle
• Sprong
  imp. of Spring. Sprung.
• Whitebeard
  An old man; a graybeard.
• 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.
• Sprawling
  of Sprawl
• SPRAWLS
  Small branches of a tree; twigs; sprays. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
• WHITEFOOT
  A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin.
• Springboard
  An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
• WHITEWATER
  A dangerous disease of sheep.

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