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   E. H. Harriman
         n 1: United States railway tycoon (1848-1909) [syn: {Harriman},
               {E. H. Harriman}, {Edward Henry Harriman}]

English Dictionary: earnings report by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
earning per share
n
  1. the portion of a company's profit allocated to each outstanding share of common stock
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
earnings
n
  1. the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
    Synonym(s): net income, net, net profit, lucre, profit, profits, earnings
  2. something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings"
    Synonym(s): wage, pay, earnings, remuneration, salary
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation and Amortization
n
  1. income before interest and taxes and depreciation and amortization have been subtracted; an indicator of a company's profitability that is watched by investors (especially in leveraged buyouts)
    Synonym(s): EBITDA, Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation and Amortization
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
earnings report
n
  1. a financial statement that gives operating results for a specific period
    Synonym(s): income statement, earnings report, operating statement, profit-and-loss statement
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ermine
n
  1. the expensive white fur of the ermine
  2. mustelid of northern hemisphere in its white winter coat
    Synonym(s): ermine, shorttail weasel, Mustela erminea
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ear-minded \Ear"-mind"ed\, a. (Physiol. Psychol.)
      Thinking chiefly or most readily through, or in terms related
      to, the sense of hearing; specif., thinking words as spoken,
      as a result of familiarity with speech or of mental
      peculiarity; -- opposed to {eye-minded}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Earn \Earn\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Earned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Earning}.] [AS. earnian; akin to OHG. arn[?]n to reap, aran
      harvest, G. ernte, Goth. asans harvest, asneis hireling, AS.
      esne; cf. Icel. [94]nn working season, work.]
      1. To merit or deserve, as by labor or service; to do that
            which entitles one to (a reward, whether the reward is
            received or not).
  
                     The high repute Which he through hazard huge must
                     earn.                                                --Milton.
  
      2. To acquire by labor, service, or performance; to deserve
            and receive as compensation or wages; as, to earn a good
            living; to earn honors or laurels.
  
                     I earn that [what] I eat.                  --Shak.
  
                     The bread I have earned by the hazard of my life or
                     the sweat of my brow.                        --Burke.
  
      {Earned run} (Baseball), a run which is made without the
            assistance of errors on the opposing side.
  
      Syn: See {Obtain}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Earning \Earn"ing\, n.; pl. {Earnings}.
      That which is earned; wages gained by work or services; money
      earned; -- used commonly in the plural.
  
               As to the common people, their stock is in their
               persons and in their earnings.               --Burke.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Earning \Earn"ing\, n.; pl. {Earnings}.
      That which is earned; wages gained by work or services; money
      earned; -- used commonly in the plural.
  
               As to the common people, their stock is in their
               persons and in their earnings.               --Burke.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ermin \Er"min\, n. [OF. Ermin, L. Armenius.]
      An Armenian. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ermine \Er"mine\, n. [OF. ermine, F. hermine, prob. of German
      origin; cf. OHG. harmo, G. hermelin, akin to Lith. szarm[?],
      szarmonys, weasel, cf. AS. hearma; but cf. also LL.
      armelinus, armellina, hermellina, and pellis Armenia, the fur
      of the Armenian rat, mus Armenius, the animal being found
      also in Armenia.]
      1. (Zo[94]l.) A valuable fur-bearing animal of the genus
            Mustela ({M. erminea}), allied to the weasel; the stoat.
            It is found in the northern parts of Asia, Europe, and
            America. In summer it is brown, but in winter it becomes
            white, except the tip of the tail, which is always black.
  
      2. The fur of the ermine, as prepared for ornamenting
            garments of royalty, etc., by having the tips of the
            tails, which are black, arranged at regular intervals
            throughout the white.
  
      3. By metonymy, the office or functions of a judge, whose
            state robe, lined with ermine, is emblematical of purity
            and honor without stain. --Chatham.
  
      4. (Her.) One of the furs. See {Fur} (Her.)
  
      Note: Ermine is represented by an argent field, tufted with
               black. Ermines is the reverse of ermine, being black,
               spotted or timbered with argent. Erminois is the same
               as ermine, except that or is substituted for argent.
  
      {Ermine moth} (Zo[94]l.), a white moth with black spots (esp.
            {Yponomeuta padella} of Europe); -- so called on account
            of the resemblance of its covering to the fur of the
            ermine; also applied to certain white bombycid moths of
            America.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ermine \Er"mine\, v. t.
      To clothe with, or as with, ermine.
  
               The snows that have ermined it in the winter. --Lowell.

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]:
   Ermine \Er"mine\, n. [OF. ermine, F. hermine, prob. of German
      origin; cf. OHG. harmo, G. hermelin, akin to Lith. szarm[?],
      szarmonys, weasel, cf. AS. hearma; but cf. also LL.
      armelinus, armellina, hermellina, and pellis Armenia, the fur
      of the Armenian rat, mus Armenius, the animal being found
      also in Armenia.]
      1. (Zo[94]l.) A valuable fur-bearing animal of the genus
            Mustela ({M. erminea}), allied to the weasel; the stoat.
            It is found in the northern parts of Asia, Europe, and
            America. In summer it is brown, but in winter it becomes
            white, except the tip of the tail, which is always black.
  
      2. The fur of the ermine, as prepared for ornamenting
            garments of royalty, etc., by having the tips of the
            tails, which are black, arranged at regular intervals
            throughout the white.
  
      3. By metonymy, the office or functions of a judge, whose
            state robe, lined with ermine, is emblematical of purity
            and honor without stain. --Chatham.
  
      4. (Her.) One of the furs. See {Fur} (Her.)
  
      Note: Ermine is represented by an argent field, tufted with
               black. Ermines is the reverse of ermine, being black,
               spotted or timbered with argent. Erminois is the same
               as ermine, except that or is substituted for argent.
  
      {Ermine moth} (Zo[94]l.), a white moth with black spots (esp.
            {Yponomeuta padella} of Europe); -- so called on account
            of the resemblance of its covering to the fur of the
            ermine; also applied to certain white bombycid moths of
            America.

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]:
   Ermine \Er"mine\, n. [OF. ermine, F. hermine, prob. of German
      origin; cf. OHG. harmo, G. hermelin, akin to Lith. szarm[?],
      szarmonys, weasel, cf. AS. hearma; but cf. also LL.
      armelinus, armellina, hermellina, and pellis Armenia, the fur
      of the Armenian rat, mus Armenius, the animal being found
      also in Armenia.]
      1. (Zo[94]l.) A valuable fur-bearing animal of the genus
            Mustela ({M. erminea}), allied to the weasel; the stoat.
            It is found in the northern parts of Asia, Europe, and
            America. In summer it is brown, but in winter it becomes
            white, except the tip of the tail, which is always black.
  
      2. The fur of the ermine, as prepared for ornamenting
            garments of royalty, etc., by having the tips of the
            tails, which are black, arranged at regular intervals
            throughout the white.
  
      3. By metonymy, the office or functions of a judge, whose
            state robe, lined with ermine, is emblematical of purity
            and honor without stain. --Chatham.
  
      4. (Her.) One of the furs. See {Fur} (Her.)
  
      Note: Ermine is represented by an argent field, tufted with
               black. Ermines is the reverse of ermine, being black,
               spotted or timbered with argent. Erminois is the same
               as ermine, except that or is substituted for argent.
  
      {Ermine moth} (Zo[94]l.), a white moth with black spots (esp.
            {Yponomeuta padella} of Europe); -- so called on account
            of the resemblance of its covering to the fur of the
            ermine; also applied to certain white bombycid moths of
            America.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ermined \Er"mined\, a.
      Clothed or adorned with the fur of the ermine. --Pope.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ermines \Er"mines\, n., Erminois \Er"min*ois\, n.(Her.)
      See Note under {Ermine}, n., 4.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ermines \Er"mines\, n., Erminois \Er"min*ois\, n.(Her.)
      See Note under {Ermine}, n., 4.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Euharmonic \Eu`har*mon"ic\, a. [Pref. -eu + harmonic.] (Mus.)
      Producing mathematically perfect harmony or concord; sweetly
      or perfectly harmonious.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Strawberry \Straw"ber*ry\, n. [AS. stre[a0]wberige; stre[a0]w
      straw + berie berry; perhaps from the resemblance of the
      runners of the plant to straws.] (Bot.)
      A fragrant edible berry, of a delicious taste and commonly of
      a red color, the fruit of a plant of the genus {Fragaria}, of
      which there are many varieties. Also, the plant bearing the
      fruit. The common American strawberry is {Fragaria
      virginiana}; the European, {F. vesca}. There are also other
      less common species.
  
      {Strawberry bass}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Calico bass}, under
            {Calico}.
  
      {Strawberry blite}. (Bot.) See under {Blite}.
  
      {Strawberry borer} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of
            insects whose larv[91] burrow in the crown or roots of the
            strawberry vine. Especially:
      (a) The root borer ({Anarsia lineatella}), a very small dark
            gray moth whose larv[91] burrow both in the larger roots
            and crown, often doing great damage.
      (b) The crown borer ({Tyloderma fragari[91]}), a small brown
            weevil whose larva burrows in the crown and kills the
            plant.
  
      {Strawberry bush} (Bot.), an American shrub ({Euonymus
            Americanus}), a kind of spindle tree having crimson pods
            and the seeds covered with a scarlet aril.
  
      {Strawberry crab} (Zo[94]l.), a small European spider crab
            ({Eurynome aspera}); -- so called because the back is
            covered with pink tubercles.
  
      {Strawberry fish} (Zo[94]l.), the amadavat.
  
      {Strawberry geranium} (Bot.), a kind of saxifrage ({Saxifraga
            sarmentosa}) having reniform leaves, and producing long
            runners like those of the strawberry.
  
      {Strawberry leaf}.
      (a) The leaf of the strawberry.
      (b) The symbol of the rank or estate of a duke, because the
            ducal coronet is twined with strawberry leaves. [bd]The
            strawberry leaves on her chariot panels are engraved on
            her ladyship's heart.[b8] --Thackeray.
  
      {Strawberry-leaf roller} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several
            species of moths whose larv[91] roll up, and feed upon,
            the leaves of the strawberry vine; especially,
            {Phoxopteris fragari[91]}, and {Eccopsis permundana}.
  
      {Strawberry moth} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of
            moth whose larv[91] feed on the strawberry vines; as:
      (a) The smeared dagger ({Apatela oblinita}), whose large
            hairy larva is velvety black with two rows of bright
            yellow spots on each side.
      (b) A geometrid ({Angerona crocataria}) which is yellow with
            dusky spots on the wings. Called also {currant moth}.
  
      {Strawberry pear} (Bot.), the red ovoid fruit of a West
            Indian plant of the genus Cereus ({C. triangularia}). It
            has a sweetish flavor, and is slightly acid, pleasant, and
            cooling. Also, the plant bearing the fruit.
  
      {Strawberry sawfly} (Zo[94]l.), a small black sawfly
            ({Emphytus maculatus}) whose larva eats the leaves of the
            strawberry vine.
  
      {Strawberry tomato}. (Bot.) See {Alkekengi}.
  
      {Strawberry tree}. (Bot.) See {Arbutus}.
  
      {Strawberry vine} (Bot.), the plant which yields the
            strawberry.
  
      {Strawberry worm} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of any moth which
            feeds on the strawberry vine.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Ermine, KY
      Zip code(s): 41815
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