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white noun. LOE.
[The adjective used ellipt. or absol.]
The translucent viscous fluid surrounding the yolk of an egg, which turns white when cooked; albumen. Chiefly in white of an egg, egg-white. LOE.
Poultry World Eggs..with pale yolks, watery whites and..meat spots. Guardian Beat the egg-whites stiff and gently fold into potato mixture.
White colour; a shade of this; whiteness; poet. fairness of complexion. LOE.
W. Robertson Their skin is covered with a fine hairy down of a chalky white. W. B. Marriott White was regarded as the colour..appropriate to things divine. Antique Collector A Chinese porcelain ewer..all glazed in white.
b. A white pigment or dye. Freq. with specifying word. M16.
Chinese white, indigo-white, etc.
A white textile. Usu. with specifying word and in pl. arch. ME.
White clothing. ME.
A. S. Byatt The village girls..dressed in white, to celebrate May Day.
b. In pl. White clothes; spec. (a) (chiefly Hist.) ecclesiastical vestments; (b) white clothes (spec. trousers) worn for cricket, tennis, etc. E17.
M. Gallant He was dressed in clean, not too new summer whites. New Yorker She saw him..in his doctor's whites. Thames Valley Now All weekend fixtures, played in whites.
The visible white part of the eyeball surrounding the iris. Freq. in the whites of the eyes. LME.
A. Carter Her eyes rolled until they were all whites.
The white or light-coloured part of anything. Formerly also, a white mark or spot. LME.
Archery. Orig. (now Hist.), the white target placed on a butt. Now, a circular band of white on the target, or either of two such bands; a shot that hits this. LME.
Orig., silver money, silver. Later (slang), a silver coin; gen. money. LME.
White wine. LME.
Elle The choice of dry whites now available includes..Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc.
A thing distinguished by white colour, as a white butterfly, a white pigeon, a white diamond, a loaf of white bread, the white ball in snooker etc., a white piece in a game etc.; the player of the white pieces in chess or draughts. LME.
Bath white, cabbage white, marbled white, etc.
b. Heroin; an amphetamine tablet. slang. E20.
Printing. Any part of a sheet of paper not printed on; esp. a blank space between words or lines or at the foot of a short page. Cf. river of white s.v. RIVER noun1 4. L16.
In pl. with the. Medicine. = LEUCORRHOEA. Now rare. L16.
(Usu. White.) A member of a light-skinned people, a white person. L17.
M. L. King A plant that hired both Negroes and whites. K. Millett South African whites training in guerilla warfare.
A member of a political party, faction, etc., adopting white as its colour (cf. BLACK noun 7); spec. (Hist.) = WHITE RUSSIAN noun phr. 2. L17.
Phrases & comb.: Admiral of the White Hist.: of the White squadron (one of the three divisions of the Royal Navy made in the 17th cent.). in black and white: see BLACK noun 2. in the white (of cloth) in an undyed state; (of a manufactured article) unfinished. pearly whites: see PEARLY adjective. river of white: see RIVER noun1 4. white balance (a control or system for adjusting) the colour balance on a video camera. white-on-white adjective designating a garment etc. made of white cloth with a white woven-in design.