Word Meanings - WRIGHTINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A rare alkaloid found in the bark of an East Indian apocynaceous tree (Wrightia antidysenterica), and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance. It was formerly used as a remedy for diarrh/a. Called also conessine, and neriine.

• Substanceless
  Having no substance; unsubstantial.
• White-eye
  Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops palpebrosus of India, and Z. c/rulescens of Australia. The eyes are encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. Called also bush creeper, and wh
• Whitener
  One who, or that which, whitens; a bleacher; a blancher; a whitewasher.
• Bitters
  A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
• Whitewasher
  One who whitewashes.
• Calligrapher
  One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman.
• WHITEEAR
  The wheatear.
• Callose
  Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.
• WHITEPLAGUE
  Tuberculosis, esp. of the lungs.
• Extracted
  of Extract
• Founder
  One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
• White-face
  A white mark in the forehead of a horse, descending almost to the nose; -- called also white-blaze.
• Whiteness
  The quality or state of being white; white color, or freedom from darkness or obscurity on the surface.
• Bitter spar
  A common name of dolomite; -- so called because it contains magnesia, the soluble salts of which are bitter. See Dolomite.
• White-water
  A dangerous disease of sheep.
• Calligraphic
  Alt. of Calligraphical
• WHITEELEPHANT
  Something requiring much care and expense and yielding little profit; any burdensome possession. [Slang]
• Callosities
  of Callosity
• WHITEPOT
  A kind of food made of milk or cream, eggs, sugar, bread, etc., baked in a pot. King.

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