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   white elephant
         n 1: a valuable possession whose upkeep is excessively expensive
         2: albinic Indian elephant; rare and sometimes venerated in east
            Asia

English Dictionary: white-livered by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
white hellebore
n
  1. North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally
    Synonym(s): white hellebore, American hellebore, Indian poke, bugbane, Veratrum viride
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
white lupine
n
  1. white-flowered Eurasian herb widely cultivated for forage and erosion control
    Synonym(s): white lupine, field lupine, wolf bean, Egyptian lupine, Lupinus albus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
white wolf
n
  1. wolf of Arctic North America having white fur and a black- tipped tail
    Synonym(s): white wolf, Arctic wolf, Canis lupus tundrarum
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
white-leaved rockrose
n
  1. compact white pubescent shrub of southwestern Europe having pink flowers
    Synonym(s): white-leaved rockrose, Cistus albidus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
white-lipped
adj
  1. having white lips from fear or terror
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
white-lipped peccary
n
  1. blackish peccary with whitish cheeks; larger than the collared peccary
    Synonym(s): white-lipped peccary, Tayassu pecari
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
white-livered
adj
  1. easily frightened [syn: chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow, yellow- bellied]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
whitlavia
n
  1. desert plant of southern California with blue or violet tubular flowers in terminal racemes
    Synonym(s): California bluebell, whitlavia, Phacelia minor, Phacelia whitlavia
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
witloof
n
  1. widely cultivated herb with leaves valued as salad green; either curly serrated leaves or broad flat ones that are usually blanched
    Synonym(s): endive, witloof, Cichorium endivia
  2. young broad-leaved endive plant deprived of light to form a narrow whitish head
    Synonym(s): Belgian endive, French endive, witloof
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wattle \Wat"tle\, n. [AS. watel, watul, watol, hurdle, covering,
      wattle; cf. OE. watel a bag. Cf. {Wallet}.]
      1. A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.
  
                     And there he built with wattles from the marsh A
                     little lonely church in days of yore. --Tennyson.
  
      2. A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
  
      3. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly
                  colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or
                  throat of a bird or reptile.
            (b) Barbel of a fish.
  
      4.
            (a) The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the
                  genus {Acacia}, used in tanning; -- called also
                  {wattle bark}.
            (b) (Bot.) The trees from which the bark is obtained. See
                  {Savanna wattle}, under {Savanna}.
  
      {Wattle turkey}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Brush turkey}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Mimosa \[d8]Mi*mo"sa\ (?; 277), n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] imitator.
      Cf. {Mime}.] (Bot.)
      A genus of leguminous plants, containing many species, and
      including the sensitive plants ({Mimosa sensitiva}, and {M.
      pudica}).
  
      Note: The term mimosa is also applied in commerce to several
               kinds bark imported from Australia, and used in
               tanning; -- called also {wattle bark}. --Tomlinson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wattlebird \Wat"tle*bird`\, n.
      1. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of honey eaters
            belonging to {Anthoch[91]ra} and allied genera of the
            family {Meliphagid[91]}. These birds usually have a large
            and conspicuous wattle of naked skin hanging down below
            each ear. They are natives of Australia and adjacent
            islands.
  
      Note: The best-known species ({Anthoch[91]ra carunculata})
               has the upper parts grayish brown, with a white stripe
               on each feather, and the wing and tail quills dark
               brown or blackish, tipped with withe. Its wattles, in
               life, are light blood-red. Called also {wattled crow},
               {wattled bee-eater}, {wattled honey eater}. Another
               species ({A. inauris}) is streaked with black, gray,
               and white, and its long wattles are white, tipped with
               orange. The bush wattlebirds, belonging to the genus
               {Anellobia}, are closely related, but lack conspicuous
               wattles. The most common species ({A. mellivora}) is
               dark brown, finely streaked with white. Called also
               {goruck creeper}.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) The Australian brush turkey.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Whettlebones \Whet"tle*bones\, n. pl.
      The vertebr[91] of the back. [Prov. Eng.] --Dunglison.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   White \White\, a. [Compar. {Whiter}; superl. {Whitest}.] [OE.
      whit, AS. hw[?]t; akin to OFries. and OS. hw[c6]t, D. wit, G.
      weiss, OHG. w[c6]z, hw[c6]z, Icel. hv[c6]tr, Sw. hvit, Dan.
      hvid, Goth. hweits, Lith. szveisti, to make bright, Russ.
      sviet' light, Skr. [?]v[?]ta white, [?]vit to be bright.
      [?][?][?]. Cf. {Wheat}, {Whitsunday}.]
      1. Reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum
            combined; not tinted with any of the proper colors or
            their mixtures; having the color of pure snow; snowy; --
            the opposite of {black} or {dark}; as, white paper; a
            white skin. [bd]Pearls white.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
                     White as the whitest lily on a stream. --Longfellow.
  
      2. Destitute of color, as in the cheeks, or of the tinge of
            blood color; pale; pallid; as, white with fear.
  
                     Or whispering with white lips, [bd]The foe! They
                     come! they come![b8]                           --Byron.
  
      3. Having the color of purity; free from spot or blemish, or
            from guilt or pollution; innocent; pure.
  
                     White as thy fame, and as thy honor clear. --Dryden.
  
                     No whiter page than Addison's remains. --Pope.
  
      4. Gray, as from age; having silvery hair; hoary.
  
                     Your high engendered battles 'gainst a head So old
                     and white as this.                              --Shak.
  
      5. Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the
            like; fortunate; happy; favorable.
  
                     On the whole, however, the dominie reckoned this as
                     one of the white days of his life.      --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
      6. Regarded with especial favor; favorite; darling.
  
                     Come forth, my white spouse.               --Chaucer.
  
                     I am his white boy, and will not be gullet. --Ford.
  
      Note: White is used in many self-explaining compounds, as
               white-backed, white-bearded, white-footed.
  
      {White alder}. (Bot.) See {Sweet pepper bush}, under
            {Pepper}.
  
      {White ant} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of social
            pseudoneuropterous insects of the genus {Termes}. These
            insects are very abundant in tropical countries, and form
            large and complex communities consisting of numerous
            asexual workers of one or more kinds, of large-headed
            asexual individuals called soldiers, of one or more queens
            (or fertile females) often having the body enormously
            distended by the eggs, and, at certain seasons of numerous
            winged males, together with the larv[91] and pup[91] of
            each kind in various stages of development. Many of the
            species construct large and complicated nests, sometimes
            in the form of domelike structures rising several feet
            above the ground and connected with extensive subterranean
            galleries and chambers. In their social habits they
            closely resemble the true ants. They feed upon animal and
            vegetable substances of various kinds, including timber,
            and are often very destructive to buildings and furniture.
           
  
      {White arsenic} (Chem.), arsenious oxide, {As2O3}, a
            substance of a white color, and vitreous adamantine
            luster, having an astringent, sweetish taste. It is a
            deadly poison.
  
      {White bass} (Zo[94]l.), a fresh-water North American bass
            ({Roccus chrysops}) found in the Great Likes.
  
      {White bear} (Zo[94]l.), the polar bear. See under {Polar}.
           
  
      {White blood cell}. (Physiol.) See {Leucocyte}.
  
      {White brand} (Zo[94]l.), the snow goose.
  
      {White brass}, a white alloy of copper; white copper.
  
      {White campion}. (Bot.)
            (a) A kind of catchfly ({Silene stellata}) with white
                  flowers.
            (b) A white-flowered Lychnis ({Lychnis vespertina}).
  
      {White canon} (R. C. Ch.), a Premonstratensian.
  
      {White caps}, the members of a secret organization in various
            of the United States, who attempt to drive away or reform
            obnoxious persons by lynch-law methods. They appear masked
            in white.
  
      {White cedar} (Bot.), an evergreen tree of North America
            ({Thuja occidentalis}), also the related {Cupressus
            thyoides}, or {Cham[91]cyparis sph[91]roidea}, a slender
            evergreen conifer which grows in the so-called cedar
            swamps of the Northern and Atlantic States. Both are much
            valued for their durable timber. In California the name is
            given to the {Libocedrus decurrens}, the timber of which
            is also useful, though often subject to dry rot.
            --Goodale. The white cedar of Demerara, Guiana, etc., is a
            lofty tree ({Icica, [or] Bursera, altissima}) whose
            fragrant wood is used for canoes and cabinetwork, as it is
            not attacked by insect.
  
      {White cell}. (Physiol.) See {Leucocyte}.
  
      {White cell-blood} (Med.), leucocyth[91]mia.
  
      {White clover} (Bot.), a species of small perennial clover
            bearing white flowers. It furnishes excellent food for
            cattle and horses, as well as for the honeybee. See also
            under {Clover}.
  
      {White copper}, a whitish alloy of copper. See {German
            silver}, under {German}.
  
      {White copperas} (Min.), a native hydrous sulphate of iron;
            coquimbite.
  
      {White coral} (Zo[94]l.), an ornamental branched coral
            ({Amphihelia oculata}) native of the Mediterranean.
  
      {White corpuscle}. (Physiol.) See {Leucocyte}.
  
      {White cricket} (Zo[94]l.), the tree cricket.
  
      {White crop}, a crop of grain which loses its green color, or
            becomes white, in ripening, as wheat, rye, barley, and
            oats, as distinguished from a green crop, or a root crop.
           
  
      {White currant} (Bot.), a variety of the common red currant,
            having white berries.
  
      {White daisy} (Bot.), the oxeye daisy. See under {Daisy}.
  
      {White damp}, a kind of poisonous gas encountered in coal
            mines. --Raymond.
  
      {White elephant} (Zo[94]l.), a whitish, or albino, variety of
            the Asiatic elephant.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   White elephant \White elephant\
      Something requiring much care and expense and yielding little
      profit; any burdensome possession. [Slang]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Indian \In"di*an\ (?; 277), a. [From India, and this fr. Indus,
      the name of a river in Asia, L. Indus, Gr. [?], OPers. Hindu,
      name of the land on the Indus, Skr. sindhu river, the Indus.
      Cf. {Hindoo}.]
      1. Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies,
            or, sometimes, to the West Indies.
  
      2. Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of
            America; as, Indian wars; the Indian tomahawk.
  
      3. Made of maize or Indian corn; as, Indian corn, Indian
            meal, Indian bread, and the like. [U.S.]
  
      {Indian} bay (Bot.), a lauraceous tree ({Persea Indica}).
  
      {Indian bean} (Bot.), a name of the catalpa.
  
      {Indian berry}. (Bot.) Same as {Cocculus indicus}.
  
      {Indian bread}. (Bot.) Same as {Cassava}.
  
      {Indian club}, a wooden club, which is swung by the hand for
            gymnastic exercise.
  
      {Indian cordage}, cordage made of the fibers of cocoanut
            husk.
  
      {Indian corn} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Zea} ({Z. Mays});
            the maize, a native of America. See {Corn}, and {Maize}.
           
  
      {Indian cress} (Bot.), nasturtium. See {Nasturtium}, 2.
  
      {Indian cucumber} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Medeola} ({M.
            Virginica}), a common in woods in the United States. The
            white rootstock has a taste like cucumbers.
  
      {Indian currant} (Bot.), a plant of the genus
            {Symphoricarpus} ({S. vulgaris}), bearing small red
            berries.
  
      {Indian dye}, the puccoon.
  
      {Indian fig}. (Bot.)
            (a) The banyan. See {Banyan}.
            (b) The prickly pear.
  
      {Indian file}, single file; arrangement of persons in a row
            following one after another, the usual way among Indians
            of traversing woods, especially when on the war path.
  
      {Indian fire}, a pyrotechnic composition of sulphur, niter,
            and realgar, burning with a brilliant white light.
  
      {Indian grass} (Bot.), a coarse, high grass ({Chrysopogon
            nutans}), common in the southern portions of the United
            States; wood grass. --Gray.
  
      {Indian hemp}. (Bot.)
            (a) A plant of the genus {Apocynum} ({A. cannabinum}),
                  having a milky juice, and a tough, fibrous bark,
                  whence the name. The root it used in medicine and is
                  both emetic and cathartic in properties.
            (b) The variety of common hemp ({Cannabis Indica}), from
                  which hasheesh is obtained.
  
      {Indian mallow} (Bot.), the velvet leaf ({Abutilon
            Avicenn[91]}). See {Abutilon}.
  
      {Indian meal}, ground corn or maize. [U.S.]
  
      {Indian millet} (Bot.), a tall annual grass ({Sorghum
            vulgare}), having many varieties, among which are broom
            corn, Guinea corn, durra, and the Chinese sugar cane. It
            is called also {Guinea corn}. See {Durra}.
  
      {Indian ox} (Zo[94]l.), the zebu.
  
      {Indian paint}. See {Bloodroot}.
  
      {Indian paper}. See {India paper}, under {India}.
  
      {Indian physic} (Bot.), a plant of two species of the genus
            {Gillenia} ({G. trifoliata}, and {G. stipulacea}), common
            in the United States, the roots of which are used in
            medicine as a mild emetic; -- called also {American
            ipecac}, and {bowman's root}. --Gray.
  
      {Indian pink}. (Bot.)
            (a) The Cypress vine ({Ipom[d2]a Quamoclit}); -- so called
                  in the West Indies.
            (b) See {China pink}, under {China}.
  
      {Indian pipe} (Bot.), a low, fleshy herb ({Monotropa
            uniflora}), growing in clusters in dark woods, and having
            scalelike leaves, and a solitary nodding flower. The whole
            plant is waxy white, but turns black in drying.
  
      {Indian plantain} (Bot.), a name given to several species of
            the genus {Cacalia}, tall herbs with composite white
            flowers, common through the United States in rich woods.
            --Gray.
  
      {Indian poke} (Bot.), a plant usually known as the {white
            hellebore} ({Veratrum viride}).
  
      {Indian pudding}, a pudding of which the chief ingredients
            are Indian meal, milk, and molasses.
  
      {Indian purple}.
            (a) A dull purple color.
            (b) The pigment of the same name, intensely blue and
                  black.
  
      {Indian red}.
            (a) A purplish red earth or pigment composed of a silicate
                  of iron and alumina, with magnesia. It comes from the
                  Persian Gulf. Called also {Persian red}.
            (b) See {Almagra}.
  
      {Indian rice} (Bot.), a reedlike water grass. See {Rice}.
  
      {Indian shot} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Canna} ({C.
            Indica}). The hard black seeds are as large as swan shot.
            See {Canna}.
  
      {Indian summer}, in the United States, a period of warm and
            pleasant weather occurring late in autumn. See under
            {Summer}.
  
      {Indian tobacco} (Bot.), a species of {Lobelia}. See
            {Lobelia}.
  
      {Indian turnip} (Bot.), an American plant of the genus
            {Aris[91]ma}. {A. triphyllum} has a wrinkled farinaceous
            root resembling a small turnip, but with a very acrid
            juice. See {Jack in the Pulpit}, and {Wake-robin}.
  
      {Indian wheat}, maize or Indian corn.
  
      {Indian yellow}.
            (a) An intense rich yellow color, deeper than gamboge but
                  less pure than cadmium.
            (b) See {Euxanthin}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {White elm} (Bot.), a majestic tree of North America ({Ulmus
            Americana}), the timber of which is much used for hubs of
            wheels, and for other purposes.
  
      {White ensign}. See {Saint George's ensign}, under {Saint}.
           
  
      {White feather}, a mark or symbol of cowardice. See {To show
            the white feather}, under {Feather}, n.
  
      {White fir} (Bot.), a name given to several coniferous trees
            of the Pacific States, as {Abies grandis}, and {A.
            concolor}.
  
      {White flesher} (Zo[94]l.), the ruffed grouse. See under
            {Ruffed}. [Canada]
  
      {White frost}. See {Hoarfrost}.
  
      {White game} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan.
  
      {White garnet} (Min.), leucite.
  
      {White grass} (Bot.), an American grass ({Leersia Virginica})
            with greenish-white pale[91].
  
      {White grouse}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The white ptarmigan.
            (b) The prairie chicken. [Local, U. S.]
  
      {White grub} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the June bug and other
            allied species. These grubs eat the roots of grasses and
            other plants, and often do much damage.
  
      {White hake} (Zo[94]l.), the squirrel hake. See under
            {Squirrel}.
  
      {White hawk}, [or] {kite} (Zo[94]l.), the hen harrier.
  
      {White heat}, the temperature at which bodies become
            incandescent, and appear white from the bright light which
            they emit.
  
      {White hellebore} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Veratrum}
            ({V. album}) See {Hellebore}, 2.
  
      {White herring}, a fresh, or unsmoked, herring, as
            distinguished from a red, or cured, herring. [R.] --Shak.
  
      {White hoolet} (Zo[94]l.), the barn owl. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {White horses} (Naut.), white-topped waves; whitecaps.
  
      {The White House}. See under {House}.
  
      {White ibis} (Zo[94]l.), an American ibis ({Guara alba})
            having the plumage pure white, except the tips of the
            wings, which are black. It inhabits tropical America and
            the Southern United States. Called also {Spanish curlew}.
           
  
      {White iron}.
            (a) Thin sheets of iron coated with tin; tinned iron.
            (b) A hard, silvery-white cast iron containing a large
                  proportion of combined carbon.
  
      {White iron pyrites} (Min.), marcasite.
  
      {White land}, a tough clayey soil, of a whitish hue when dry,
            but blackish after rain. [Eng.]
  
      {White lark} (Zo[94]l.), the snow bunting.
  
      {White lead}.
            (a) A carbonate of lead much used in painting, and for
                  other purposes; ceruse.
            (b) (Min.) Native lead carbonate; cerusite.
  
      {White leather}, buff leather; leather tanned with alum and
            salt.
  
      {White leg} (Med.), milk leg. See under {Milk}.
  
      {White lettuce} (Bot.), rattlesnake root. See under
            {Rattlesnake}.
  
      {White lie}. See under {Lie}.
  
      {White light}.
            (a) (Physics) Light having the different colors in the
                  same proportion as in the light coming directly from
                  the sun, without having been decomposed, as by passing
                  through a prism. See the Note under {Color}, n., 1.
            (b) A kind of firework which gives a brilliant white
                  illumination for signals, etc.
  
      {White lime}, a solution or preparation of lime for
            whitewashing; whitewash.
  
      {White line} (Print.), a void space of the breadth of a line,
            on a printed page; a blank line.
  
      {White meat}.
            (a) Any light-colored flesh, especially of poultry.
            (b) Food made from milk or eggs, as butter, cheese, etc.
  
                           Driving their cattle continually with them, and
                           feeding only upon their milk and white meats.
                                                                              --Spenser.
  
      {White merganser} (Zo[94]l.), the smew.
  
      {White metal}.
            (a) Any one of several white alloys, as pewter, britannia,
                  etc.
            (b) (Metal.) A fine grade of copper sulphide obtained at a
                  certain stage in copper smelting.
  
      {White miller}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The common clothes moth.
            (b) A common American bombycid moth ({Spilosoma
                  Virginica}) which is pure white with a few small black
                  spots; -- called also {ermine moth}, and {virgin
                  moth}. See {Woolly bear}, under {Woolly}.
  
      {White money}, silver money.
  
      {White mouse} (Zo[94]l.), the albino variety of the common
            mouse.
  
      {White mullet} (Zo[94]l.), a silvery mullet ({Mugil curema})
            ranging from the coast of the United States to Brazil; --
            called also {blue-back mullet}, and {liza}.
  
      {White nun} (Zo[94]l.), the smew; -- so called from the white
            crest and the band of black feathers on the back of its
            head, which give the appearance of a hood.
  
      {White oak}. (Bot.) See under {Oak}.
  
      {White owl}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The snowy owl.
            (b) The barn owl.
  
      {White partridge} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan.
  
      {White perch}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A North American fresh-water bass ({Morone Americana})
                  valued as a food fish.
            (b) The croaker, or fresh-water drum.
            (c) Any California surf fish.
  
      {White pine}. (Bot.) See the Note under {Pine}.
  
      {White poplar} (Bot.), a European tree ({Populus alba}) often
            cultivated as a shade tree in America; abele.
  
      {White poppy} (Bot.), the opium-yielding poppy. See {Poppy}.
           
  
      {White powder}, a kind of gunpowder formerly believed to
            exist, and to have the power of exploding without noise.
            [Obs.]
  
                     A pistol charged with white powder.   --Beau. & Fl.
  
      {White precipitate}. (Old Chem.) See under {Precipitate}.
  
      {White rabbit}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The American northern hare in its winter pelage.
            (b) An albino rabbit.
  
      {White rent},
            (a) (Eng. Law) Formerly, rent payable in silver; --
                  opposed to black rent. See {Blackmail}, n., 3.
            (b) A rent, or duty, of eight pence, payable yearly by
                  every tinner in Devon and Cornwall to the Duke of
                  Cornwall, as lord of the soil. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {White rhinoceros}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The one-horned, or Indian, rhinoceros ({Rhinoceros
                  Indicus}). See {Rhinoceros}.
            (b) The umhofo.
  
      {White ribbon}, the distinctive badge of certain
            organizations for the promotion of temperance or of moral
            purity; as, the White-ribbon Army.
  
      {White rope} (Naut.), untarred hemp rope.
  
      {White rot}. (Bot.)
            (a) Either of several plants, as marsh pennywort and
                  butterwort, which were thought to produce the disease
                  called rot in sheep.
            (b) A disease of grapes. See {White rot}, under {Rot}.
  
      {White sage} (Bot.), a white, woolly undershrub ({Eurotia
            lanata}) of Western North America; -- called also {winter
            fat}.
  
      {White salmon} (Zo[94]l.), the silver salmon.
  
      {White salt}, salt dried and calcined; decrepitated salt.
  
      {White scale} (Zo[94]l.), a scale insect ({Aspidiotus Nerii})
            injurious to the orange tree. See {Orange scale}, under
            {Orange}.
  
      {White shark} (Zo[94]l.), a species of man-eating shark. See
            under {Shark}.
  
      {White softening}. (Med.) See {Softening of the brain}, under
            {Softening}.
  
      {White spruce}. (Bot.) See {Spruce}, n., 1.
  
      {White squall} (Naut.), a sudden gust of wind, or furious
            blow, which comes up without being marked in its approach
            otherwise than by whitecaps, or white, broken water, on
            the surface of the sea.
  
      {White staff}, the badge of the lord high treasurer of
            England. --Macaulay.
  
      {White stork} (Zo[94]l.), the common European stork.
  
      {White sturgeon}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Shovelnose}
            (d) .
  
      {White sucker}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The common sucker.
            (b) The common red horse ({Moxostoma macrolepidotum}).
  
      {White swelling} (Med.), a chronic swelling of the knee,
            produced by a strumous inflammation of the synovial
            membranes of the kneejoint and of the cancellar texture of
            the end of the bone forming the kneejoint; -- applied also
            to a lingering chronic swelling of almost any kind.
  
      {White tombac}. See {Tombac}.
  
      {White trout} (Zo[94]l.), the white weakfish, or silver
            squeteague ({Cynoscion nothus}), of the Southern United
            States.
  
      {White vitriol} (Chem.), hydrous sulphate of zinc. See {White
            vitriol}, under {Vitriol}.
  
      {White wagtail} (Zo[94]l.), the common, or pied, wagtail.
  
      {White wax}, beeswax rendered white by bleaching.
  
      {White whale} (Zo[94]l.), the beluga.
  
      {White widgeon} (Zo[94]l.), the smew.
  
      {White wine}. any wine of a clear, transparent color,
            bordering on white, as Madeira, sherry, Lisbon, etc.; --
            distinguished from wines of a deep red color, as port and
            Burgundy. [bd]White wine of Lepe.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
      {White witch}, a witch or wizard whose supernatural powers
            are supposed to be exercised for good and beneficent
            purposes. --Addison. --Cotton Mather.
  
      {White wolf}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A light-colored wolf ({Canis laniger}) native of
                  Thibet; -- called also {chanco}, {golden wolf}, and
                  {Thibetan wolf}.
            (b) The albino variety of the gray wolf.
  
      {White wren} (Zo[94]l.), the willow warbler; -- so called
            from the color of the under parts.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hellebore \Hel"le*bore\, n. [L. helleborus, elleborus, Gr. [?],
      [?]; cf. F. hell[82]bore, ell[82]bore.]
      1. (Bot.) A genus of perennial herbs ({Helleborus}) of the
            Crowfoot family, mostly having powerfully cathartic and
            even poisonous qualities. {H. niger} is the European black
            hellebore, or Christmas rose, blossoming in winter or
            earliest spring. {H. officinalis} was the officinal
            hellebore of the ancients.
  
      2. (Bot.) Any plant of several species of the poisonous
            liliaceous genus {Veratrum}, especially {V. album} and {V.
            viride}, both called {white hellebore}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Indian \In"di*an\ (?; 277), a. [From India, and this fr. Indus,
      the name of a river in Asia, L. Indus, Gr. [?], OPers. Hindu,
      name of the land on the Indus, Skr. sindhu river, the Indus.
      Cf. {Hindoo}.]
      1. Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies,
            or, sometimes, to the West Indies.
  
      2. Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of
            America; as, Indian wars; the Indian tomahawk.
  
      3. Made of maize or Indian corn; as, Indian corn, Indian
            meal, Indian bread, and the like. [U.S.]
  
      {Indian} bay (Bot.), a lauraceous tree ({Persea Indica}).
  
      {Indian bean} (Bot.), a name of the catalpa.
  
      {Indian berry}. (Bot.) Same as {Cocculus indicus}.
  
      {Indian bread}. (Bot.) Same as {Cassava}.
  
      {Indian club}, a wooden club, which is swung by the hand for
            gymnastic exercise.
  
      {Indian cordage}, cordage made of the fibers of cocoanut
            husk.
  
      {Indian corn} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Zea} ({Z. Mays});
            the maize, a native of America. See {Corn}, and {Maize}.
           
  
      {Indian cress} (Bot.), nasturtium. See {Nasturtium}, 2.
  
      {Indian cucumber} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Medeola} ({M.
            Virginica}), a common in woods in the United States. The
            white rootstock has a taste like cucumbers.
  
      {Indian currant} (Bot.), a plant of the genus
            {Symphoricarpus} ({S. vulgaris}), bearing small red
            berries.
  
      {Indian dye}, the puccoon.
  
      {Indian fig}. (Bot.)
            (a) The banyan. See {Banyan}.
            (b) The prickly pear.
  
      {Indian file}, single file; arrangement of persons in a row
            following one after another, the usual way among Indians
            of traversing woods, especially when on the war path.
  
      {Indian fire}, a pyrotechnic composition of sulphur, niter,
            and realgar, burning with a brilliant white light.
  
      {Indian grass} (Bot.), a coarse, high grass ({Chrysopogon
            nutans}), common in the southern portions of the United
            States; wood grass. --Gray.
  
      {Indian hemp}. (Bot.)
            (a) A plant of the genus {Apocynum} ({A. cannabinum}),
                  having a milky juice, and a tough, fibrous bark,
                  whence the name. The root it used in medicine and is
                  both emetic and cathartic in properties.
            (b) The variety of common hemp ({Cannabis Indica}), from
                  which hasheesh is obtained.
  
      {Indian mallow} (Bot.), the velvet leaf ({Abutilon
            Avicenn[91]}). See {Abutilon}.
  
      {Indian meal}, ground corn or maize. [U.S.]
  
      {Indian millet} (Bot.), a tall annual grass ({Sorghum
            vulgare}), having many varieties, among which are broom
            corn, Guinea corn, durra, and the Chinese sugar cane. It
            is called also {Guinea corn}. See {Durra}.
  
      {Indian ox} (Zo[94]l.), the zebu.
  
      {Indian paint}. See {Bloodroot}.
  
      {Indian paper}. See {India paper}, under {India}.
  
      {Indian physic} (Bot.), a plant of two species of the genus
            {Gillenia} ({G. trifoliata}, and {G. stipulacea}), common
            in the United States, the roots of which are used in
            medicine as a mild emetic; -- called also {American
            ipecac}, and {bowman's root}. --Gray.
  
      {Indian pink}. (Bot.)
            (a) The Cypress vine ({Ipom[d2]a Quamoclit}); -- so called
                  in the West Indies.
            (b) See {China pink}, under {China}.
  
      {Indian pipe} (Bot.), a low, fleshy herb ({Monotropa
            uniflora}), growing in clusters in dark woods, and having
            scalelike leaves, and a solitary nodding flower. The whole
            plant is waxy white, but turns black in drying.
  
      {Indian plantain} (Bot.), a name given to several species of
            the genus {Cacalia}, tall herbs with composite white
            flowers, common through the United States in rich woods.
            --Gray.
  
      {Indian poke} (Bot.), a plant usually known as the {white
            hellebore} ({Veratrum viride}).
  
      {Indian pudding}, a pudding of which the chief ingredients
            are Indian meal, milk, and molasses.
  
      {Indian purple}.
            (a) A dull purple color.
            (b) The pigment of the same name, intensely blue and
                  black.
  
      {Indian red}.
            (a) A purplish red earth or pigment composed of a silicate
                  of iron and alumina, with magnesia. It comes from the
                  Persian Gulf. Called also {Persian red}.
            (b) See {Almagra}.
  
      {Indian rice} (Bot.), a reedlike water grass. See {Rice}.
  
      {Indian shot} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Canna} ({C.
            Indica}). The hard black seeds are as large as swan shot.
            See {Canna}.
  
      {Indian summer}, in the United States, a period of warm and
            pleasant weather occurring late in autumn. See under
            {Summer}.
  
      {Indian tobacco} (Bot.), a species of {Lobelia}. See
            {Lobelia}.
  
      {Indian turnip} (Bot.), an American plant of the genus
            {Aris[91]ma}. {A. triphyllum} has a wrinkled farinaceous
            root resembling a small turnip, but with a very acrid
            juice. See {Jack in the Pulpit}, and {Wake-robin}.
  
      {Indian wheat}, maize or Indian corn.
  
      {Indian yellow}.
            (a) An intense rich yellow color, deeper than gamboge but
                  less pure than cadmium.
            (b) See {Euxanthin}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {White elm} (Bot.), a majestic tree of North America ({Ulmus
            Americana}), the timber of which is much used for hubs of
            wheels, and for other purposes.
  
      {White ensign}. See {Saint George's ensign}, under {Saint}.
           
  
      {White feather}, a mark or symbol of cowardice. See {To show
            the white feather}, under {Feather}, n.
  
      {White fir} (Bot.), a name given to several coniferous trees
            of the Pacific States, as {Abies grandis}, and {A.
            concolor}.
  
      {White flesher} (Zo[94]l.), the ruffed grouse. See under
            {Ruffed}. [Canada]
  
      {White frost}. See {Hoarfrost}.
  
      {White game} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan.
  
      {White garnet} (Min.), leucite.
  
      {White grass} (Bot.), an American grass ({Leersia Virginica})
            with greenish-white pale[91].
  
      {White grouse}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The white ptarmigan.
            (b) The prairie chicken. [Local, U. S.]
  
      {White grub} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the June bug and other
            allied species. These grubs eat the roots of grasses and
            other plants, and often do much damage.
  
      {White hake} (Zo[94]l.), the squirrel hake. See under
            {Squirrel}.
  
      {White hawk}, [or] {kite} (Zo[94]l.), the hen harrier.
  
      {White heat}, the temperature at which bodies become
            incandescent, and appear white from the bright light which
            they emit.
  
      {White hellebore} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Veratrum}
            ({V. album}) See {Hellebore}, 2.
  
      {White herring}, a fresh, or unsmoked, herring, as
            distinguished from a red, or cured, herring. [R.] --Shak.
  
      {White hoolet} (Zo[94]l.), the barn owl. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {White horses} (Naut.), white-topped waves; whitecaps.
  
      {The White House}. See under {House}.
  
      {White ibis} (Zo[94]l.), an American ibis ({Guara alba})
            having the plumage pure white, except the tips of the
            wings, which are black. It inhabits tropical America and
            the Southern United States. Called also {Spanish curlew}.
           
  
      {White iron}.
            (a) Thin sheets of iron coated with tin; tinned iron.
            (b) A hard, silvery-white cast iron containing a large
                  proportion of combined carbon.
  
      {White iron pyrites} (Min.), marcasite.
  
      {White land}, a tough clayey soil, of a whitish hue when dry,
            but blackish after rain. [Eng.]
  
      {White lark} (Zo[94]l.), the snow bunting.
  
      {White lead}.
            (a) A carbonate of lead much used in painting, and for
                  other purposes; ceruse.
            (b) (Min.) Native lead carbonate; cerusite.
  
      {White leather}, buff leather; leather tanned with alum and
            salt.
  
      {White leg} (Med.), milk leg. See under {Milk}.
  
      {White lettuce} (Bot.), rattlesnake root. See under
            {Rattlesnake}.
  
      {White lie}. See under {Lie}.
  
      {White light}.
            (a) (Physics) Light having the different colors in the
                  same proportion as in the light coming directly from
                  the sun, without having been decomposed, as by passing
                  through a prism. See the Note under {Color}, n., 1.
            (b) A kind of firework which gives a brilliant white
                  illumination for signals, etc.
  
      {White lime}, a solution or preparation of lime for
            whitewashing; whitewash.
  
      {White line} (Print.), a void space of the breadth of a line,
            on a printed page; a blank line.
  
      {White meat}.
            (a) Any light-colored flesh, especially of poultry.
            (b) Food made from milk or eggs, as butter, cheese, etc.
  
                           Driving their cattle continually with them, and
                           feeding only upon their milk and white meats.
                                                                              --Spenser.
  
      {White merganser} (Zo[94]l.), the smew.
  
      {White metal}.
            (a) Any one of several white alloys, as pewter, britannia,
                  etc.
            (b) (Metal.) A fine grade of copper sulphide obtained at a
                  certain stage in copper smelting.
  
      {White miller}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The common clothes moth.
            (b) A common American bombycid moth ({Spilosoma
                  Virginica}) which is pure white with a few small black
                  spots; -- called also {ermine moth}, and {virgin
                  moth}. See {Woolly bear}, under {Woolly}.
  
      {White money}, silver money.
  
      {White mouse} (Zo[94]l.), the albino variety of the common
            mouse.
  
      {White mullet} (Zo[94]l.), a silvery mullet ({Mugil curema})
            ranging from the coast of the United States to Brazil; --
            called also {blue-back mullet}, and {liza}.
  
      {White nun} (Zo[94]l.), the smew; -- so called from the white
            crest and the band of black feathers on the back of its
            head, which give the appearance of a hood.
  
      {White oak}. (Bot.) See under {Oak}.
  
      {White owl}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The snowy owl.
            (b) The barn owl.
  
      {White partridge} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan.
  
      {White perch}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A North American fresh-water bass ({Morone Americana})
                  valued as a food fish.
            (b) The croaker, or fresh-water drum.
            (c) Any California surf fish.
  
      {White pine}. (Bot.) See the Note under {Pine}.
  
      {White poplar} (Bot.), a European tree ({Populus alba}) often
            cultivated as a shade tree in America; abele.
  
      {White poppy} (Bot.), the opium-yielding poppy. See {Poppy}.
           
  
      {White powder}, a kind of gunpowder formerly believed to
            exist, and to have the power of exploding without noise.
            [Obs.]
  
                     A pistol charged with white powder.   --Beau. & Fl.
  
      {White precipitate}. (Old Chem.) See under {Precipitate}.
  
      {White rabbit}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The American northern hare in its winter pelage.
            (b) An albino rabbit.
  
      {White rent},
            (a) (Eng. Law) Formerly, rent payable in silver; --
                  opposed to black rent. See {Blackmail}, n., 3.
            (b) A rent, or duty, of eight pence, payable yearly by
                  every tinner in Devon and Cornwall to the Duke of
                  Cornwall, as lord of the soil. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {White rhinoceros}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The one-horned, or Indian, rhinoceros ({Rhinoceros
                  Indicus}). See {Rhinoceros}.
            (b) The umhofo.
  
      {White ribbon}, the distinctive badge of certain
            organizations for the promotion of temperance or of moral
            purity; as, the White-ribbon Army.
  
      {White rope} (Naut.), untarred hemp rope.
  
      {White rot}. (Bot.)
            (a) Either of several plants, as marsh pennywort and
                  butterwort, which were thought to produce the disease
                  called rot in sheep.
            (b) A disease of grapes. See {White rot}, under {Rot}.
  
      {White sage} (Bot.), a white, woolly undershrub ({Eurotia
            lanata}) of Western North America; -- called also {winter
            fat}.
  
      {White salmon} (Zo[94]l.), the silver salmon.
  
      {White salt}, salt dried and calcined; decrepitated salt.
  
      {White scale} (Zo[94]l.), a scale insect ({Aspidiotus Nerii})
            injurious to the orange tree. See {Orange scale}, under
            {Orange}.
  
      {White shark} (Zo[94]l.), a species of man-eating shark. See
            under {Shark}.
  
      {White softening}. (Med.) See {Softening of the brain}, under
            {Softening}.
  
      {White spruce}. (Bot.) See {Spruce}, n., 1.
  
      {White squall} (Naut.), a sudden gust of wind, or furious
            blow, which comes up without being marked in its approach
            otherwise than by whitecaps, or white, broken water, on
            the surface of the sea.
  
      {White staff}, the badge of the lord high treasurer of
            England. --Macaulay.
  
      {White stork} (Zo[94]l.), the common European stork.
  
      {White sturgeon}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Shovelnose}
            (d) .
  
      {White sucker}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The common sucker.
            (b) The common red horse ({Moxostoma macrolepidotum}).
  
      {White swelling} (Med.), a chronic swelling of the knee,
            produced by a strumous inflammation of the synovial
            membranes of the kneejoint and of the cancellar texture of
            the end of the bone forming the kneejoint; -- applied also
            to a lingering chronic swelling of almost any kind.
  
      {White tombac}. See {Tombac}.
  
      {White trout} (Zo[94]l.), the white weakfish, or silver
            squeteague ({Cynoscion nothus}), of the Southern United
            States.
  
      {White vitriol} (Chem.), hydrous sulphate of zinc. See {White
            vitriol}, under {Vitriol}.
  
      {White wagtail} (Zo[94]l.), the common, or pied, wagtail.
  
      {White wax}, beeswax rendered white by bleaching.
  
      {White whale} (Zo[94]l.), the beluga.
  
      {White widgeon} (Zo[94]l.), the smew.
  
      {White wine}. any wine of a clear, transparent color,
            bordering on white, as Madeira, sherry, Lisbon, etc.; --
            distinguished from wines of a deep red color, as port and
            Burgundy. [bd]White wine of Lepe.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
      {White witch}, a witch or wizard whose supernatural powers
            are supposed to be exercised for good and beneficent
            purposes. --Addison. --Cotton Mather.
  
      {White wolf}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A light-colored wolf ({Canis laniger}) native of
                  Thibet; -- called also {chanco}, {golden wolf}, and
                  {Thibetan wolf}.
            (b) The albino variety of the gray wolf.
  
      {White wren} (Zo[94]l.), the willow warbler; -- so called
            from the color of the under parts.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hellebore \Hel"le*bore\, n. [L. helleborus, elleborus, Gr. [?],
      [?]; cf. F. hell[82]bore, ell[82]bore.]
      1. (Bot.) A genus of perennial herbs ({Helleborus}) of the
            Crowfoot family, mostly having powerfully cathartic and
            even poisonous qualities. {H. niger} is the European black
            hellebore, or Christmas rose, blossoming in winter or
            earliest spring. {H. officinalis} was the officinal
            hellebore of the ancients.
  
      2. (Bot.) Any plant of several species of the poisonous
            liliaceous genus {Veratrum}, especially {V. album} and {V.
            viride}, both called {white hellebore}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Indian \In"di*an\ (?; 277), a. [From India, and this fr. Indus,
      the name of a river in Asia, L. Indus, Gr. [?], OPers. Hindu,
      name of the land on the Indus, Skr. sindhu river, the Indus.
      Cf. {Hindoo}.]
      1. Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies,
            or, sometimes, to the West Indies.
  
      2. Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of
            America; as, Indian wars; the Indian tomahawk.
  
      3. Made of maize or Indian corn; as, Indian corn, Indian
            meal, Indian bread, and the like. [U.S.]
  
      {Indian} bay (Bot.), a lauraceous tree ({Persea Indica}).
  
      {Indian bean} (Bot.), a name of the catalpa.
  
      {Indian berry}. (Bot.) Same as {Cocculus indicus}.
  
      {Indian bread}. (Bot.) Same as {Cassava}.
  
      {Indian club}, a wooden club, which is swung by the hand for
            gymnastic exercise.
  
      {Indian cordage}, cordage made of the fibers of cocoanut
            husk.
  
      {Indian corn} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Zea} ({Z. Mays});
            the maize, a native of America. See {Corn}, and {Maize}.
           
  
      {Indian cress} (Bot.), nasturtium. See {Nasturtium}, 2.
  
      {Indian cucumber} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Medeola} ({M.
            Virginica}), a common in woods in the United States. The
            white rootstock has a taste like cucumbers.
  
      {Indian currant} (Bot.), a plant of the genus
            {Symphoricarpus} ({S. vulgaris}), bearing small red
            berries.
  
      {Indian dye}, the puccoon.
  
      {Indian fig}. (Bot.)
            (a) The banyan. See {Banyan}.
            (b) The prickly pear.
  
      {Indian file}, single file; arrangement of persons in a row
            following one after another, the usual way among Indians
            of traversing woods, especially when on the war path.
  
      {Indian fire}, a pyrotechnic composition of sulphur, niter,
            and realgar, burning with a brilliant white light.
  
      {Indian grass} (Bot.), a coarse, high grass ({Chrysopogon
            nutans}), common in the southern portions of the United
            States; wood grass. --Gray.
  
      {Indian hemp}. (Bot.)
            (a) A plant of the genus {Apocynum} ({A. cannabinum}),
                  having a milky juice, and a tough, fibrous bark,
                  whence the name. The root it used in medicine and is
                  both emetic and cathartic in properties.
            (b) The variety of common hemp ({Cannabis Indica}), from
                  which hasheesh is obtained.
  
      {Indian mallow} (Bot.), the velvet leaf ({Abutilon
            Avicenn[91]}). See {Abutilon}.
  
      {Indian meal}, ground corn or maize. [U.S.]
  
      {Indian millet} (Bot.), a tall annual grass ({Sorghum
            vulgare}), having many varieties, among which are broom
            corn, Guinea corn, durra, and the Chinese sugar cane. It
            is called also {Guinea corn}. See {Durra}.
  
      {Indian ox} (Zo[94]l.), the zebu.
  
      {Indian paint}. See {Bloodroot}.
  
      {Indian paper}. See {India paper}, under {India}.
  
      {Indian physic} (Bot.), a plant of two species of the genus
            {Gillenia} ({G. trifoliata}, and {G. stipulacea}), common
            in the United States, the roots of which are used in
            medicine as a mild emetic; -- called also {American
            ipecac}, and {bowman's root}. --Gray.
  
      {Indian pink}. (Bot.)
            (a) The Cypress vine ({Ipom[d2]a Quamoclit}); -- so called
                  in the West Indies.
            (b) See {China pink}, under {China}.
  
      {Indian pipe} (Bot.), a low, fleshy herb ({Monotropa
            uniflora}), growing in clusters in dark woods, and having
            scalelike leaves, and a solitary nodding flower. The whole
            plant is waxy white, but turns black in drying.
  
      {Indian plantain} (Bot.), a name given to several species of
            the genus {Cacalia}, tall herbs with composite white
            flowers, common through the United States in rich woods.
            --Gray.
  
      {Indian poke} (Bot.), a plant usually known as the {white
            hellebore} ({Veratrum viride}).
  
      {Indian pudding}, a pudding of which the chief ingredients
            are Indian meal, milk, and molasses.
  
      {Indian purple}.
            (a) A dull purple color.
            (b) The pigment of the same name, intensely blue and
                  black.
  
      {Indian red}.
            (a) A purplish red earth or pigment composed of a silicate
                  of iron and alumina, with magnesia. It comes from the
                  Persian Gulf. Called also {Persian red}.
            (b) See {Almagra}.
  
      {Indian rice} (Bot.), a reedlike water grass. See {Rice}.
  
      {Indian shot} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Canna} ({C.
            Indica}). The hard black seeds are as large as swan shot.
            See {Canna}.
  
      {Indian summer}, in the United States, a period of warm and
            pleasant weather occurring late in autumn. See under
            {Summer}.
  
      {Indian tobacco} (Bot.), a species of {Lobelia}. See
            {Lobelia}.
  
      {Indian turnip} (Bot.), an American plant of the genus
            {Aris[91]ma}. {A. triphyllum} has a wrinkled farinaceous
            root resembling a small turnip, but with a very acrid
            juice. See {Jack in the Pulpit}, and {Wake-robin}.
  
      {Indian wheat}, maize or Indian corn.
  
      {Indian yellow}.
            (a) An intense rich yellow color, deeper than gamboge but
                  less pure than cadmium.
            (b) See {Euxanthin}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {White elm} (Bot.), a majestic tree of North America ({Ulmus
            Americana}), the timber of which is much used for hubs of
            wheels, and for other purposes.
  
      {White ensign}. See {Saint George's ensign}, under {Saint}.
           
  
      {White feather}, a mark or symbol of cowardice. See {To show
            the white feather}, under {Feather}, n.
  
      {White fir} (Bot.), a name given to several coniferous trees
            of the Pacific States, as {Abies grandis}, and {A.
            concolor}.
  
      {White flesher} (Zo[94]l.), the ruffed grouse. See under
            {Ruffed}. [Canada]
  
      {White frost}. See {Hoarfrost}.
  
      {White game} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan.
  
      {White garnet} (Min.), leucite.
  
      {White grass} (Bot.), an American grass ({Leersia Virginica})
            with greenish-white pale[91].
  
      {White grouse}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The white ptarmigan.
            (b) The prairie chicken. [Local, U. S.]
  
      {White grub} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the June bug and other
            allied species. These grubs eat the roots of grasses and
            other plants, and often do much damage.
  
      {White hake} (Zo[94]l.), the squirrel hake. See under
            {Squirrel}.
  
      {White hawk}, [or] {kite} (Zo[94]l.), the hen harrier.
  
      {White heat}, the temperature at which bodies become
            incandescent, and appear white from the bright light which
            they emit.
  
      {White hellebore} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Veratrum}
            ({V. album}) See {Hellebore}, 2.
  
      {White herring}, a fresh, or unsmoked, herring, as
            distinguished from a red, or cured, herring. [R.] --Shak.
  
      {White hoolet} (Zo[94]l.), the barn owl. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {White horses} (Naut.), white-topped waves; whitecaps.
  
      {The White House}. See under {House}.
  
      {White ibis} (Zo[94]l.), an American ibis ({Guara alba})
            having the plumage pure white, except the tips of the
            wings, which are black. It inhabits tropical America and
            the Southern United States. Called also {Spanish curlew}.
           
  
      {White iron}.
            (a) Thin sheets of iron coated with tin; tinned iron.
            (b) A hard, silvery-white cast iron containing a large
                  proportion of combined carbon.
  
      {White iron pyrites} (Min.), marcasite.
  
      {White land}, a tough clayey soil, of a whitish hue when dry,
            but blackish after rain. [Eng.]
  
      {White lark} (Zo[94]l.), the snow bunting.
  
      {White lead}.
            (a) A carbonate of lead much used in painting, and for
                  other purposes; ceruse.
            (b) (Min.) Native lead carbonate; cerusite.
  
      {White leather}, buff leather; leather tanned with alum and
            salt.
  
      {White leg} (Med.), milk leg. See under {Milk}.
  
      {White lettuce} (Bot.), rattlesnake root. See under
            {Rattlesnake}.
  
      {White lie}. See under {Lie}.
  
      {White light}.
            (a) (Physics) Light having the different colors in the
                  same proportion as in the light coming directly from
                  the sun, without having been decomposed, as by passing
                  through a prism. See the Note under {Color}, n., 1.
            (b) A kind of firework which gives a brilliant white
                  illumination for signals, etc.
  
      {White lime}, a solution or preparation of lime for
            whitewashing; whitewash.
  
      {White line} (Print.), a void space of the breadth of a line,
            on a printed page; a blank line.
  
      {White meat}.
            (a) Any light-colored flesh, especially of poultry.
            (b) Food made from milk or eggs, as butter, cheese, etc.
  
                           Driving their cattle continually with them, and
                           feeding only upon their milk and white meats.
                                                                              --Spenser.
  
      {White merganser} (Zo[94]l.), the smew.
  
      {White metal}.
            (a) Any one of several white alloys, as pewter, britannia,
                  etc.
            (b) (Metal.) A fine grade of copper sulphide obtained at a
                  certain stage in copper smelting.
  
      {White miller}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The common clothes moth.
            (b) A common American bombycid moth ({Spilosoma
                  Virginica}) which is pure white with a few small black
                  spots; -- called also {ermine moth}, and {virgin
                  moth}. See {Woolly bear}, under {Woolly}.
  
      {White money}, silver money.
  
      {White mouse} (Zo[94]l.), the albino variety of the common
            mouse.
  
      {White mullet} (Zo[94]l.), a silvery mullet ({Mugil curema})
            ranging from the coast of the United States to Brazil; --
            called also {blue-back mullet}, and {liza}.
  
      {White nun} (Zo[94]l.), the smew; -- so called from the white
            crest and the band of black feathers on the back of its
            head, which give the appearance of a hood.
  
      {White oak}. (Bot.) See under {Oak}.
  
      {White owl}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The snowy owl.
            (b) The barn owl.
  
      {White partridge} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan.
  
      {White perch}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A North American fresh-water bass ({Morone Americana})
                  valued as a food fish.
            (b) The croaker, or fresh-water drum.
            (c) Any California surf fish.
  
      {White pine}. (Bot.) See the Note under {Pine}.
  
      {White poplar} (Bot.), a European tree ({Populus alba}) often
            cultivated as a shade tree in America; abele.
  
      {White poppy} (Bot.), the opium-yielding poppy. See {Poppy}.
           
  
      {White powder}, a kind of gunpowder formerly believed to
            exist, and to have the power of exploding without noise.
            [Obs.]
  
                     A pistol charged with white powder.   --Beau. & Fl.
  
      {White precipitate}. (Old Chem.) See under {Precipitate}.
  
      {White rabbit}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The American northern hare in its winter pelage.
            (b) An albino rabbit.
  
      {White rent},
            (a) (Eng. Law) Formerly, rent payable in silver; --
                  opposed to black rent. See {Blackmail}, n., 3.
            (b) A rent, or duty, of eight pence, payable yearly by
                  every tinner in Devon and Cornwall to the Duke of
                  Cornwall, as lord of the soil. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {White rhinoceros}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The one-horned, or Indian, rhinoceros ({Rhinoceros
                  Indicus}). See {Rhinoceros}.
            (b) The umhofo.
  
      {White ribbon}, the distinctive badge of certain
            organizations for the promotion of temperance or of moral
            purity; as, the White-ribbon Army.
  
      {White rope} (Naut.), untarred hemp rope.
  
      {White rot}. (Bot.)
            (a) Either of several plants, as marsh pennywort and
                  butterwort, which were thought to produce the disease
                  called rot in sheep.
            (b) A disease of grapes. See {White rot}, under {Rot}.
  
      {White sage} (Bot.), a white, woolly undershrub ({Eurotia
            lanata}) of Western North America; -- called also {winter
            fat}.
  
      {White salmon} (Zo[94]l.), the silver salmon.
  
      {White salt}, salt dried and calcined; decrepitated salt.
  
      {White scale} (Zo[94]l.), a scale insect ({Aspidiotus Nerii})
            injurious to the orange tree. See {Orange scale}, under
            {Orange}.
  
      {White shark} (Zo[94]l.), a species of man-eating shark. See
            under {Shark}.
  
      {White softening}. (Med.) See {Softening of the brain}, under
            {Softening}.
  
      {White spruce}. (Bot.) See {Spruce}, n., 1.
  
      {White squall} (Naut.), a sudden gust of wind, or furious
            blow, which comes up without being marked in its approach
            otherwise than by whitecaps, or white, broken water, on
            the surface of the sea.
  
      {White staff}, the badge of the lord high treasurer of
            England. --Macaulay.
  
      {White stork} (Zo[94]l.), the common European stork.
  
      {White sturgeon}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Shovelnose}
            (d) .
  
      {White sucker}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The common sucker.
            (b) The common red horse ({Moxostoma macrolepidotum}).
  
      {White swelling} (Med.), a chronic swelling of the knee,
            produced by a strumous inflammation of the synovial
            membranes of the kneejoint and of the cancellar texture of
            the end of the bone forming the kneejoint; -- applied also
            to a lingering chronic swelling of almost any kind.
  
      {White tombac}. See {Tombac}.
  
      {White trout} (Zo[94]l.), the white weakfish, or silver
            squeteague ({Cynoscion nothus}), of the Southern United
            States.
  
      {White vitriol} (Chem.), hydrous sulphate of zinc. See {White
            vitriol}, under {Vitriol}.
  
      {White wagtail} (Zo[94]l.), the common, or pied, wagtail.
  
      {White wax}, beeswax rendered white by bleaching.
  
      {White whale} (Zo[94]l.), the beluga.
  
      {White widgeon} (Zo[94]l.), the smew.
  
      {White wine}. any wine of a clear, transparent color,
            bordering on white, as Madeira, sherry, Lisbon, etc.; --
            distinguished from wines of a deep red color, as port and
            Burgundy. [bd]White wine of Lepe.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
      {White witch}, a witch or wizard whose supernatural powers
            are supposed to be exercised for good and beneficent
            purposes. --Addison. --Cotton Mather.
  
      {White wolf}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A light-colored wolf ({Canis laniger}) native of
                  Thibet; -- called also {chanco}, {golden wolf}, and
                  {Thibetan wolf}.
            (b) The albino variety of the gray wolf.
  
      {White wren} (Zo[94]l.), the willow warbler; -- so called
            from the color of the under parts.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hellebore \Hel"le*bore\, n. [L. helleborus, elleborus, Gr. [?],
      [?]; cf. F. hell[82]bore, ell[82]bore.]
      1. (Bot.) A genus of perennial herbs ({Helleborus}) of the
            Crowfoot family, mostly having powerfully cathartic and
            even poisonous qualities. {H. niger} is the European black
            hellebore, or Christmas rose, blossoming in winter or
            earliest spring. {H. officinalis} was the officinal
            hellebore of the ancients.
  
      2. (Bot.) Any plant of several species of the poisonous
            liliaceous genus {Veratrum}, especially {V. album} and {V.
            viride}, both called {white hellebore}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {White elm} (Bot.), a majestic tree of North America ({Ulmus
            Americana}), the timber of which is much used for hubs of
            wheels, and for other purposes.
  
      {White ensign}. See {Saint George's ensign}, under {Saint}.
           
  
      {White feather}, a mark or symbol of cowardice. See {To show
            the white feather}, under {Feather}, n.
  
      {White fir} (Bot.), a name given to several coniferous trees
            of the Pacific States, as {Abies grandis}, and {A.
            concolor}.
  
      {White flesher} (Zo[94]l.), the ruffed grouse. See under
            {Ruffed}. [Canada]
  
      {White frost}. See {Hoarfrost}.
  
      {White game} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan.
  
      {White garnet} (Min.), leucite.
  
      {White grass} (Bot.), an American grass ({Leersia Virginica})
            with greenish-white pale[91].
  
      {White grouse}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The white ptarmigan.
            (b) The prairie chicken. [Local, U. S.]
  
      {White grub} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the June bug and other
            allied species. These grubs eat the roots of grasses and
            other plants, and often do much damage.
  
      {White hake} (Zo[94]l.), the squirrel hake. See under
            {Squirrel}.
  
      {White hawk}, [or] {kite} (Zo[94]l.), the hen harrier.
  
      {White heat}, the temperature at which bodies become
            incandescent, and appear white from the bright light which
            they emit.
  
      {White hellebore} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Veratrum}
            ({V. album}) See {Hellebore}, 2.
  
      {White herring}, a fresh, or unsmoked, herring, as
            distinguished from a red, or cured, herring. [R.] --Shak.
  
      {White hoolet} (Zo[94]l.), the barn owl. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {White horses} (Naut.), white-topped waves; whitecaps.
  
      {The White House}. See under {House}.
  
      {White ibis} (Zo[94]l.), an American ibis ({Guara alba})
            having the plumage pure white, except the tips of the
            wings, which are black. It inhabits tropical America and
            the Southern United States. Called also {Spanish curlew}.
           
  
      {White iron}.
            (a) Thin sheets of iron coated with tin; tinned iron.
            (b) A hard, silvery-white cast iron containing a large
                  proportion of combined carbon.
  
      {White iron pyrites} (Min.), marcasite.
  
      {White land}, a tough clayey soil, of a whitish hue when dry,
            but blackish after rain. [Eng.]
  
      {White lark} (Zo[94]l.), the snow bunting.
  
      {White lead}.
            (a) A carbonate of lead much used in painting, and for
                  other purposes; ceruse.
            (b) (Min.) Native lead carbonate; cerusite.
  
      {White leather}, buff leather; leather tanned with alum and
            salt.
  
      {White leg} (Med.), milk leg. See under {Milk}.
  
      {White lettuce} (Bot.), rattlesnake root. See under
            {Rattlesnake}.
  
      {White lie}. See under {Lie}.
  
      {White light}.
            (a) (Physics) Light having the different colors in the
                  same proportion as in the light coming directly from
                  the sun, without having been decomposed, as by passing
                  through a prism. See the Note under {Color}, n., 1.
            (b) A kind of firework which gives a brilliant white
                  illumination for signals, etc.
  
      {White lime}, a solution or preparation of lime for
            whitewashing; whitewash.
  
      {White line} (Print.), a void space of the breadth of a line,
            on a printed page; a blank line.
  
      {White meat}.
            (a) Any light-colored flesh, especially of poultry.
            (b) Food made from milk or eggs, as butter, cheese, etc.
  
                           Driving their cattle continually with them, and
                           feeding only upon their milk and white meats.
                                                                              --Spenser.
  
      {White merganser} (Zo[94]l.), the smew.
  
      {White metal}.
            (a) Any one of several white alloys, as pewter, britannia,
                  etc.
            (b) (Metal.) A fine grade of copper sulphide obtained at a
                  certain stage in copper smelting.
  
      {White miller}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The common clothes moth.
            (b) A common American bombycid moth ({Spilosoma
                  Virginica}) which is pure white with a few small black
                  spots; -- called also {ermine moth}, and {virgin
                  moth}. See {Woolly bear}, under {Woolly}.
  
      {White money}, silver money.
  
      {White mouse} (Zo[94]l.), the albino variety of the common
            mouse.
  
      {White mullet} (Zo[94]l.), a silvery mullet ({Mugil curema})
            ranging from the coast of the United States to Brazil; --
            called also {blue-back mullet}, and {liza}.
  
      {White nun} (Zo[94]l.), the smew; -- so called from the white
            crest and the band of black feathers on the back of its
            head, which give the appearance of a hood.
  
      {White oak}. (Bot.) See under {Oak}.
  
      {White owl}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The snowy owl.
            (b) The barn owl.
  
      {White partridge} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan.
  
      {White perch}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A North American fresh-water bass ({Morone Americana})
                  valued as a food fish.
            (b) The croaker, or fresh-water drum.
            (c) Any California surf fish.
  
      {White pine}. (Bot.) See the Note under {Pine}.
  
      {White poplar} (Bot.), a European tree ({Populus alba}) often
            cultivated as a shade tree in America; abele.
  
      {White poppy} (Bot.), the opium-yielding poppy. See {Poppy}.
           
  
      {White powder}, a kind of gunpowder formerly believed to
            exist, and to have the power of exploding without noise.
            [Obs.]
  
                     A pistol charged with white powder.   --Beau. & Fl.
  
      {White precipitate}. (Old Chem.) See under {Precipitate}.
  
      {White rabbit}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The American northern hare in its winter pelage.
            (b) An albino rabbit.
  
      {White rent},
            (a) (Eng. Law) Formerly, rent payable in silver; --
                  opposed to black rent. See {Blackmail}, n., 3.
            (b) A rent, or duty, of eight pence, payable yearly by
                  every tinner in Devon and Cornwall to the Duke of
                  Cornwall, as lord of the soil. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {White rhinoceros}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The one-horned, or Indian, rhinoceros ({Rhinoceros
                  Indicus}). See {Rhinoceros}.
            (b) The umhofo.
  
      {White ribbon}, the distinctive badge of certain
            organizations for the promotion of temperance or of moral
            purity; as, the White-ribbon Army.
  
      {White rope} (Naut.), untarred hemp rope.
  
      {White rot}. (Bot.)
            (a) Either of several plants, as marsh pennywort and
                  butterwort, which were thought to produce the disease
                  called rot in sheep.
            (b) A disease of grapes. See {White rot}, under {Rot}.
  
      {White sage} (Bot.), a white, woolly undershrub ({Eurotia
            lanata}) of Western North America; -- called also {winter
            fat}.
  
      {White salmon} (Zo[94]l.), the silver salmon.
  
      {White salt}, salt dried and calcined; decrepitated salt.
  
      {White scale} (Zo[94]l.), a scale insect ({Aspidiotus Nerii})
            injurious to the orange tree. See {Orange scale}, under
            {Orange}.
  
      {White shark} (Zo[94]l.), a species of man-eating shark. See
            under {Shark}.
  
      {White softening}. (Med.) See {Softening of the brain}, under
            {Softening}.
  
      {White spruce}. (Bot.) See {Spruce}, n., 1.
  
      {White squall} (Naut.), a sudden gust of wind, or furious
            blow, which comes up without being marked in its approach
            otherwise than by whitecaps, or white, broken water, on
            the surface of the sea.
  
      {White staff}, the badge of the lord high treasurer of
            England. --Macaulay.
  
      {White stork} (Zo[94]l.), the common European stork.
  
      {White sturgeon}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Shovelnose}
            (d) .
  
      {White sucker}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The common sucker.
            (b) The common red horse ({Moxostoma macrolepidotum}).
  
      {White swelling} (Med.), a chronic swelling of the knee,
            produced by a strumous inflammation of the synovial
            membranes of the kneejoint and of the cancellar texture of
            the end of the bone forming the kneejoint; -- applied also
            to a lingering chronic swelling of almost any kind.
  
      {White tombac}. See {Tombac}.
  
      {White trout} (Zo[94]l.), the white weakfish, or silver
            squeteague ({Cynoscion nothus}), of the Southern United
            States.
  
      {White vitriol} (Chem.), hydrous sulphate of zinc. See {White
            vitriol}, under {Vitriol}.
  
      {White wagtail} (Zo[94]l.), the common, or pied, wagtail.
  
      {White wax}, beeswax rendered white by bleaching.
  
      {White whale} (Zo[94]l.), the beluga.
  
      {White widgeon} (Zo[94]l.), the smew.
  
      {White wine}. any wine of a clear, transparent color,
            bordering on white, as Madeira, sherry, Lisbon, etc.; --
            distinguished from wines of a deep red color, as port and
            Burgundy. [bd]White wine of Lepe.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
      {White witch}, a witch or wizard whose supernatural powers
            are supposed to be exercised for good and beneficent
            purposes. --Addison. --Cotton Mather.
  
      {White wolf}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A light-colored wolf ({Canis laniger}) native of
                  Thibet; -- called also {chanco}, {golden wolf}, and
                  {Thibetan wolf}.
            (b) The albino variety of the gray wolf.
  
      {White wren} (Zo[94]l.), the willow warbler; -- so called
            from the color of the under parts.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   White-livered \White"-liv`ered\, a.
      Having a pale look; feeble; hence, cowardly; pusillanimous;
      dastardly.
  
               They must not be milksops, nor white-livered knights.
                                                                              --Latimer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wood \Wood\, n. [OE. wode, wude, AS. wudu, wiodu; akin to OHG.
      witu, Icel. vi[?]r, Dan. & Sw. ved wood, and probably to Ir.
      & Gael. fiodh, W. gwydd trees, shrubs.]
      1. A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove;
            -- frequently used in the plural.
  
                     Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky
                     wood.                                                --Shak.
  
      2. The substance of trees and the like; the hard fibrous
            substance which composes the body of a tree and its
            branches, and which is covered by the bark; timber. [bd]To
            worship their own work in wood and stone for gods.[b8]
            --Milton.
  
      3. (Bot.) The fibrous material which makes up the greater
            part of the stems and branches of trees and shrubby
            plants, and is found to a less extent in herbaceous stems.
            It consists of elongated tubular or needle-shaped cells of
            various kinds, usually interwoven with the shinning bands
            called silver grain.
  
      Note: Wood consists chiefly of the carbohydrates cellulose
               and lignin, which are isomeric with starch.
  
      4. Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.
  
      {Wood acid}, {Wood vinegar} (Chem.), a complex acid liquid
            obtained in the dry distillation of wood, and containing
            large quantities of acetic acid; hence, specifically,
            acetic acid. Formerly called {pyroligneous acid}.
  
      {Wood anemone} (Bot.), a delicate flower ({Anemone nemorosa})
            of early spring; -- also called {windflower}. See Illust.
            of {Anemone}.
  
      {Wood ant} (Zo[94]l.), a large ant ({Formica rufa}) which
            lives in woods and forests, and constructs large nests.
  
      {Wood apple} (Bot.). See {Elephant apple}, under {Elephant}.
           
  
      {Wood baboon} (Zo[94]l.), the drill.
  
      {Wood betony}. (Bot.)
            (a) Same as {Betony}.
            (b) The common American lousewort ({Pedicularis
                  Canadensis}), a low perennial herb with yellowish or
                  purplish flowers.
  
      {Wood borer}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The larva of any one of numerous species of boring
                  beetles, esp. elaters, longicorn beetles,
                  buprestidans, and certain weevils. See {Apple borer},
                  under {Apple}, and {Pine weevil}, under {Pine}.
            (b) The larva of any one of various species of
                  lepidopterous insects, especially of the clearwing
                  moths, as the peach-tree borer (see under {Peach}),
                  and of the goat moths.
            (c) The larva of various species of hymenopterous of the
                  tribe Urocerata. See {Tremex}.
            (d) Any one of several bivalve shells which bore in wood,
                  as the teredos, and species of Xylophaga.
            (e) Any one of several species of small Crustacea, as the
                  {Limnoria}, and the boring amphipod ({Chelura
                  terebrans}).
  
      {Wood carpet}, a kind of floor covering made of thin pieces
            of wood secured to a flexible backing, as of cloth.
            --Knight.
  
      {Wood cell} (Bot.), a slender cylindrical or prismatic cell
            usually tapering to a point at both ends. It is the
            principal constituent of woody fiber.
  
      {Wood choir}, the choir, or chorus, of birds in the woods.
            [Poetic] --Coleridge.
  
      {Wood coal}, charcoal; also, lignite, or brown coal.
  
      {Wood cricket} (Zo[94]l.), a small European cricket
            ({Nemobius sylvestris}).
  
      {Wood culver} (Zo[94]l.), the wood pigeon.
  
      {Wood cut}, an engraving on wood; also, a print from such an
            engraving.
  
      {Wood dove} (Zo[94]l.), the stockdove.
  
      {Wood drink}, a decoction or infusion of medicinal woods.
  
      {Wood duck} (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A very beautiful American duck ({Aix sponsa}). The
                  male has a large crest, and its plumage is varied with
                  green, purple, black, white, and red. It builds its
                  nest in trees, whence the name. Called also {bridal
                  duck}, {summer duck}, and {wood widgeon}.
            (b) The hooded merganser.
            (c) The Australian maned goose ({Chlamydochen jubata}).
  
      {Wood echo}, an echo from the wood.
  
      {Wood engraver}.
            (a) An engraver on wood.
            (b) (Zo[94]l.) Any of several species of small beetles
                  whose larv[91] bore beneath the bark of trees, and
                  excavate furrows in the wood often more or less
                  resembling coarse engravings; especially, {Xyleborus
                  xylographus}.
  
      {Wood engraving}.
            (a) The act or art engraving on wood; xylography.
            (b) An engraving on wood; a wood cut; also, a print from
                  such an engraving.
  
      {Wood fern}. (Bot.) See {Shield fern}, under {Shield}.
  
      {Wood fiber}.
            (a) (Bot.) Fibrovascular tissue.
            (b) Wood comminuted, and reduced to a powdery or dusty
                  mass.
  
      {Wood fretter} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of
            beetles whose larv[91] bore in the wood, or beneath the
            bark, of trees.
  
      {Wood frog} (Zo[94]l.), a common North American frog ({Rana
            sylvatica}) which lives chiefly in the woods, except
            during the breeding season. It is drab or yellowish brown,
            with a black stripe on each side of the head.
  
      {Wood germander}. (Bot.) See under {Germander}.
  
      {Wood god}, a fabled sylvan deity.
  
      {Wood grass}. (Bot.) See under {Grass}.
  
      {Wood grouse}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The capercailzie.
            (b) The spruce partridge. See under {Spruce}.
  
      {Wood guest} (Zo[94]l.), the ringdove. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {Wood hen}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of several species of Old World short-winged
                  rails of the genus {Ocydromus}, including the weka and
                  allied species.
            (b) The American woodcock.
  
      {Wood hoopoe} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of Old
            World arboreal birds belonging to {Irrisor} and allied
            genera. They are closely allied to the common hoopoe, but
            have a curved beak, and a longer tail.
  
      {Wood ibis} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of large,
            long-legged, wading birds belonging to the genus
            {Tantalus}. The head and neck are naked or scantily
            covered with feathers. The American wood ibis ({Tantalus
            loculator}) is common in Florida.
  
      {Wood lark} (Zo[94]l.), a small European lark ({Alauda
            arborea}), which, like, the skylark, utters its notes
            while on the wing. So called from its habit of perching on
            trees.
  
      {Wood laurel} (Bot.), a European evergreen shrub ({Daphne
            Laureola}).
  
      {Wood leopard} (Zo[94]l.), a European spotted moth ({Zeuzera
            [91]sculi}) allied to the goat moth. Its large fleshy
            larva bores in the wood of the apple, pear, and other
            fruit trees.
  
      {Wood lily} (Bot.), the lily of the valley.
  
      {Wood lock} (Naut.), a piece of wood close fitted and
            sheathed with copper, in the throating or score of the
            pintle, to keep the rudder from rising.
  
      {Wood louse} (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial isopod
                  Crustacea belonging to {Oniscus}, {Armadillo}, and
                  related genera. See {Sow bug}, under Sow, and {Pill
                  bug}, under {Pill}.
            (b) Any one of several species of small, wingless,
                  pseudoneuropterous insects of the family {Psocid[91]},
                  which live in the crevices of walls and among old
                  books and papers. Some of the species are called also
                  {book lice}, and {deathticks}, or {deathwatches}.
  
      {Wood mite} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous small mites of
            the family {Oribatid[91]}. They are found chiefly in
            woods, on tree trunks and stones.
  
      {Wood mote}. (Eng. Law)
            (a) Formerly, the forest court.
            (b) The court of attachment.
  
      {Wood nettle}. (Bot.) See under {Nettle}.
  
      {Wood nightshade} (Bot.), woody nightshade.
  
      {Wood nut} (Bot.), the filbert.
  
      {Wood nymph}. (a) A nymph inhabiting the woods; a fabled
            goddess of the woods; a dryad. [bd]The wood nymphs, decked
            with daisies trim.[b8] --Milton.
            (b) (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of handsomely
                  colored moths belonging to the genus {Eudryas}. The
                  larv[91] are bright-colored, and some of the species,
                  as {Eudryas grata}, and {E. unio}, feed on the leaves
                  of the grapevine.
            (c) (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of handsomely
                  colored South American humming birds belonging to the
                  genus {Thalurania}. The males are bright blue, or
                  green and blue.
  
      {Wood offering}, wood burnt on the altar.
  
                     We cast the lots . . . for the wood offering. --Neh.
                                                                              x. 34.
  
      {Wood oil} (Bot.), a resinous oil obtained from several East
            Indian trees of the genus {Dipterocarpus}, having
            properties similar to those of copaiba, and sometimes
            substituted for it. It is also used for mixing paint. See
            {Gurjun}.
  
      {Wood opal} (Min.), a striped variety of coarse opal, having
            some resemblance to wood.
  
      {Wood paper}, paper made of wood pulp. See {Wood pulp},
            below.
  
      {Wood pewee} (Zo[94]l.), a North American tyrant flycatcher
            ({Contopus virens}). It closely resembles the pewee, but
            is smaller.
  
      {Wood pie} (Zo[94]l.), any black and white woodpecker,
            especially the European great spotted woodpecker.
  
      {Wood pigeon}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of numerous species of Old World pigeons
                  belonging to {Palumbus} and allied genera of the
                  family {Columbid[91]}.
            (b) The ringdove.
  
      {Wood puceron} (Zo[94]l.), a plant louse.
  
      {Wood pulp} (Technol.), vegetable fiber obtained from the
            poplar and other white woods, and so softened by digestion
            with a hot solution of alkali that it can be formed into
            sheet paper, etc. It is now produced on an immense scale.
           
  
      {Wood quail} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of East
            Indian crested quails belonging to {Rollulus} and allied
            genera, as the red-crested wood quail ({R. roulroul}), the
            male of which is bright green, with a long crest of red
            hairlike feathers.
  
      {Wood rabbit} (Zo[94]l.), the cottontail.
  
      {Wood rat} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of American
            wild rats of the genus {Neotoma} found in the Southern
            United States; -- called also {bush rat}. The Florida wood
            rat ({Neotoma Floridana}) is the best-known species.
  
      {Wood reed grass} (Bot.), a tall grass ({Cinna arundinacea})
            growing in moist woods.
  
      {Wood reeve}, the steward or overseer of a wood. [Eng.]
  
      {Wood rush} (Bot.), any plant of the genus {Luzula},
            differing from the true rushes of the genus {Juncus}
            chiefly in having very few seeds in each capsule.
  
      {Wood sage} (Bot.), a name given to several labiate plants of
            the genus {Teucrium}. See {Germander}.
  
      {Wood screw}, a metal screw formed with a sharp thread, and
            usually with a slotted head, for insertion in wood.
  
      {Wood sheldrake} (Zo[94]l.), the hooded merganser.
  
      {Wood shock} (Zo[94]l.), the fisher. See {Fisher}, 2.
  
      {Wood shrike} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of Old
            World singing birds belonging to {Grallina},
            {Collyricincla}, {Prionops}, and allied genera, common in
            India and Australia. They are allied to the true shrikes,
            but feed upon both insects and berries.
  
      {Wood snipe}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The American woodcock.
            (b) An Asiatic snipe ({Gallinago nemoricola}).
  
      {Wood soot}, soot from burnt wood.
  
      {Wood sore}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Cuckoo spit}, under {Cuckoo}.
  
      {Wood sorrel} (Bot.), a plant of the genus Oxalis ({Oxalis
            Acetosella}), having an acid taste. See Illust. (a) of
            {Shamrock}.
  
      {Wood spirit}. (Chem.) See {Methyl alcohol}, under {Methyl}.
           
  
      {Wood stamp}, a carved or engraved block or stamp of wood,
            for impressing figures or colors on fabrics.
  
      {Wood star} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of small
            South American humming birds belonging to the genus
            {Calothorax}. The male has a brilliant gorget of blue,
            purple, and other colors.
  
      {Wood sucker} (Zo[94]l.), the yaffle.
  
      {Wood swallow} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of Old
            World passerine birds belonging to the genus {Artamus} and
            allied genera of the family {Artamid[91]}. They are common
            in the East Indies, Asia, and Australia. In form and
            habits they resemble swallows, but in structure they
            resemble shrikes. They are usually black above and white
            beneath.
  
      {Wood tapper} (Zo[94]l.), any woodpecker.
  
      {Wood tar}. See under {Tar}.
  
      {Wood thrush}, (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) An American thrush ({Turdus mustelinus}) noted for the
                  sweetness of its song. See under {Thrush}.
            (b) The missel thrush.
  
      {Wood tick}. See in Vocabulary.
  
      {Wood tin}. (Min.). See {Cassiterite}.
  
      {Wood titmouse} (Zo[94]l.), the goldcgest.
  
      {Wood tortoise} (Zo[94]l.), the sculptured tortoise. See
            under {Sculptured}.
  
      {Wood vine} (Bot.), the white bryony.
  
      {Wood vinegar}. See {Wood acid}, above.
  
      {Wood warbler}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of numerous species of American warblers of
                  the genus {Dendroica}. See {Warbler}.
            (b) A European warbler ({Phylloscopus sibilatrix}); --
                  called also {green wren}, {wood wren}, and {yellow
                  wren}.
  
      {Wood worm} (Zo[94]l.), a larva that bores in wood; a wood
            borer.
  
      {Wood wren}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The wood warbler.
            (b) The willow warbler.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
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From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Woodleaf, NC
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