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white adjective & adverb.
[Old English hwit = Old Frisian, Old Saxon hwit, Old High German (h)wi (German weiss), Old Norse hvitr, Gothic hweits, from Germanic from Indo-European. Cf. WHEAT.]
A. adjective.
I.
Of the colour of fresh milk or snow; having that colour produced by reflection, transmission, or emission of all wavelengths of visible light without absorption, being fully luminous and devoid of any hue. OE.
blue-white, grey-white, snow-white, etc.
D. H. Lawrence All the ground was white with snowdrops. G. Greene The kitchen was like a snowdrift with its white casement and white dresser and white table. I. Murdoch His very white teeth flashing under his moustache.
b. (Of hair) having lost its colour esp. in old age; (of a person) having white hair. Also, albino. ME.
c. Physics. Designating (non-optical) radiation, esp. sound, having approximately equal intensities at all the frequencies of its range. E20.
Approaching the colour white; of a light colour; spec. (a) (of a crop) light-coloured when ripening, i.e. consisting of cereals (as opp. to roots, legumes, etc.); (of land) suitable for cereals; (b) (of a metal or metal object) silvery grey and lustrous. OE.
W. A. Miller Tin is a white metal with a tinge of yellow. Times The familiar wrapped and sliced white loaf.
b. Of glass: colourless; transparent. OE.
c. Of wine: made from white grapes or dark grapes with the skins removed, and of an amber, golden, or pale yellow colour. ME.
E. David A few bottles of glorious white Burgundy.
d. Of paper: blank, not written or printed on. Formerly also, (of a document) unendorsed. LME.
e. [translating Italian voce bianca white voice.] Of a singing voice or its sound: lacking emotional coloration and resonance. L19.
f. Of coffee or (occas.) tea: served with milk, cream, etc. E20.
a. (Of the skin or complexion) light in colour, fair; having fair skin. Chiefly poet. exc. as in sense 3b below. OE.
J. Cheever Careful never to expose her white skin to the sun for long.
b. Of or belonging to a light-skinned people, chiefly inhabiting or descended from those having inhabited Europe; of or pertaining to white people. E17.
L. Nkosi The Government is going to stop them..going to the white universities. H. Bascom A White woman with yellowish hair. Harper's Magazine The..general squalor that poor people, white or black, endured in the land of dreams. Listener This cocktail of dance and dialectic defines the best of white British soul.
Wearing white clothing; spec. belonging to an ecclesiastical order distinguished by a white habit. ME.
A. Seton White nuns, Cistercians, shrouded in snowy wimples and habits.
b. [Orig. with ref. to the white flag of the Bourbons.] Pertaining to or supporting a royalist or legitimist cause; esp. counter-revolutionary, reactionary. Cf. RED adjective 8b. M18.
Orig., of or pertaining to an illness marked by pallor. Now, pale (of face) from illness, fear, anger, etc. LME.
D. Cusack She went white as a sheet and..slid off her chair. R. Rendell He wondered if his face was as white as it felt.
II. fig.
a. Morally or spiritually pure; innocent. OE.
A. Trollope Duty to see that your name be made white again. A. Garve They expect standards of personal behaviour whiter than white.
b. Free from malignity or evil intent; beneficent, harmless. Chiefly in special collocations below. Cf. BLACK adjective 7, 8a. M17.
c. Of propaganda: truthful. colloq. M20.
Highly prized, precious; dear, favourite. Long obsolete exc. in WHITE BOY 1. LME.
Specious, plausible. LME-E19.
Of a period of time, season, etc.: auspicious, happy. Now rare. E17.
Honourable, decent, fair. colloq. (orig. Austral.). M19.
Times He didn't want to see them put in a difficult spot..which..was rather white of him.
Phrases: black and white: see BLACK adjective. bleed white: see BLEED verb 12. Dashing White Sergeant: see DASHING ppl adjective. dead white: see DEAD adjective etc. free, white, and over twenty-one: see FREE adjective. Great White Way: see GREAT adjective. Red and White Friesian: see RED adjective. red, white, and blue: see RED adjective. the white feather: see FEATHER noun. the Great White Throne: see THRONE noun. white about the gills: see GILL noun1 2b.
Special collocations & comb.: white admiral any of several nymphalid butterflies of the genus Limenitis, which have blackish wings with white markings; esp. L. camilla of Europe, and L. arthemis of N. America. White Africa the white inhabitants of Africa; the parts of Africa ruled by white people. white alder: see ALDER 1b. white ant (a) = TERMITE 1; (b) in pl. (Austral. slang) loss of sanity; lack of intelligence. white-ant verb trans. (Austral. slang) destroy in the manner of termites; undermine; sabotage. white ANTIMONY. White Army Hist. any of the armies which opposed the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War (1918-21). white arsenic: see ARSENIC noun 2. white ash (a) N. Amer. a kind of ash, Fraxinus americana, with leaflets paler or silvery-white below; the wood of this tree, highly valued for making oars; colloq. an oar; (b) S. Afr. = white alder (b) s.v. ALDER 1b; (c) refined sodium carbonate, as distinct from the crude black ash. White Australia policy Austral. History a policy restricting immigration into Australia to white people only. white-backed adjective having a white back or rump; white-backed vulture, either of two large Old World vultures of the genus Gyps, which have a white rump visible in flight; esp. G. africanus of Africa. white backlash reaction on the part of white people against demands by or concessions to black people. whitebait (a) a small silvery-white fish caught in large numbers and eaten whole, comprising the fry of the herring and sprat; (b) any similar young or small fishes caught for food, esp. of the genera Galaxias, Lovettia, Retropinna, and Engraulis (Austral. & NZ), and silversides of the genus Atherina or family Atherinidae (N. Amer. & S. Afr.). white-bark pine a pine with pale flaky bark, Pinus albicaulis, native to western N. America. white bass a N. American freshwater bass, Morone chrysops (family Percichthyidae). white bear N. Amer. (a) a polar bear; (b) a light-coloured form of the grizzly bear. whitebeard a man with a white beard; (freq. derog.) an old man. white-bellied adjective having a white belly or underparts; white-bellied sea-eagle, an Asian and Australasian sea-eagle, Haliaeetus leucogaster, which is mainly white with grey-brown wings. white belt (the holder of) a belt marking the rank of beginner in judo or karate. white birch the paper birch, Betula papyrifera. white bird (a) any of various birds with white or pale plumage; (b) in Irish folklore, a bird of fairyland. white blood cell = LEUCOCYTE. whiteboard a board with a white surface, like a blackboard, for writing or drawing on with felt-tipped pens. white book [translating medieval Latin liber albus: cf. ALBUM] a book of official records or reports bound in white; spec. (Law) (with cap. initials) (a copy of) the official book entitled Supreme Court Practice. white box any of several Australian box-gums with pale foliage or wood, esp. Eucalyptus albens. white brass a brass alloy containing a large proportion of zinc, used in ornamental work etc. white bread bread of a light colour made from sifted or bleached flour, as distinguished from brown bread; white-bread adjective (N. Amer. colloq.) of, belonging to, or representative of the white middle classes; not progressive, radical, or innovative; white-breasted adjective having a white breast; white-breasted nuthatch, a common N. American nuthatch, Sitta carolinensis, with a black cap and white face. whitebrick a hard, durable variety of brick made from gault. white bronze any light-coloured bronze, esp. a hard white alloy which is high in zinc. white bryony: see BRYONY 1. white-burning adjective (of clay) giving a white product when fired. white butterfly any of various mainly white butterflies, esp. of the family Pieridae. white campion a campion of cultivated ground, roadsides, etc., Silene latifolia, with white evening-scented flowers. white cane = white stick (b) below. white cast iron = white iron (b) below. white cedar (a) any of several N. American conifers, esp. Thuja occidentalis and Chamaecyparis thyoides; (b) an Australian variety of the azedarac, Melia azedarach. white cell = LEUCOCYTE. white chameleon: see CHAMELEON noun 2. white chauvinism prejudice against non-white people. white chauvinist a person prejudiced against non-white people. white Christmas Christmas with snow on the ground. white clay kaolin. White Cliffs opal a variety of opal mined near White Cliffs, a town in New South Wales, Australia. white clover: see CLOVER noun. white coal water as a source of power, spec. electricity. whitecoat (a) (obsolete exc. Hist.) a soldier wearing a white or light-coloured coat; (b) a young seal, having a coat of white fur; the skin or fur of this; (c) a doctor or hospital attendant who wears a white coat. white coat spec.: worn as a protective overall by doctors, laboratory workers, etc. white coffee: see COFFEE noun. white COHOSH. white comb Veterinary Medicine a form of favus attacking the combs of fowls, caused by the fungus Trichophyton gallinae. white COPPERAS. white corpuscle = LEUCOCYTE. white crow: see CROW noun1 1. white-crowned adjective having a white crown; white-crowned sparrow, a N. American sparrow-like emberizid, Zonotrichia leucophrys, with a black and white striped crown. white CURRANT. white-damp carbon monoxide as occurring in coalmines. white dead-nettle: see DEAD adjective. white deal: see DEAL noun2 2. white death (a) tuberculosis; (b) = white shark below. white dwarf Astronomy a small, faint, very dense star lying below the main sequence, representing the stable phase assumed by stars having less than 1.4 solar masses when their nuclear reactions cease. white-eared adjective having white ears; (of a bird) having a white patch at the side of the head; white-eared monarch (flycatcher), a black and white monarch flycatcher, Monarcha leucotis, found near the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia, and on neighbouring islands. white earth earthy material that is light-coloured, as chalk, kaolin; pigment made from this. white egret = great white egret s.v. GREAT adjective. white elephant a useless or troublesome possession or thing. white elm: see ELM 1. white embroidery = white work below. white ensign: see ENSIGN noun 4. white-eye any of various birds with a white iris, or with white plumage around the eyes; spec. any of numerous small Old World perching birds of the family Zosteropidae, esp. of the genus Zosterops, which have greenish plumage and a ring of white feathers around the eye. white-eyed adjective having the iris of the eye white; (of a bird) having white plumage around the eyes (white-eyed POCHARD). whiteface (a) an animal with a white face (chiefly attrib.); spec. (chiefly N. Amer.) a Hereford; (b) white stage make-up. White Father (a) a white man regarded as controlling people of another race; (b) [translating French Pere Blanc] a member of the Society of Missionaries of Africa, a Roman Catholic order founded in Algiers in 1868. white finger(s) = RAYNAUD's disease. white fir any of several N. American firs, esp. Abies concolor, of the south-western US. white flag: see FLAG noun4. white flight US the migration of white people from inner-city areas (esp. those with a large black population) to the suburbs. white flour fine wheat flour, usu. bleached, from which most of the bran and germ have been removed. white flux = LEUCORRHOEA. whitefly any of various small bugs of the family Aleyrodidae, with waxy white wings, many of which are pests of garden and greenhouse plants. white-footed adjective having white feet; white-footed mouse, a N. American mouse, Peromyscus leucopus, which is related to the deer mouse and is found mainly in the US. white fox = Arctic fox s.v. ARCTIC adjective. white friar [from the colour of the order's habit] a Carmelite friar. whitefront = white-fronted goose below. white-fronted adjective having a white breast or forehead; white-fronted goose, a grey goose, Anser albifrons, that has a white forehead and breeds in northern Eurasia and N. America. white frost: see FROST noun. white fuel = white coal above. white goat = ROCKY MOUNTAIN goat. white gold any of various silver-coloured alloys of gold with palladium, platinum, or silver, or with nickel and other base metals, used as substitutes for platinum in jewellery. white goods (a) household linen; (b) large domestic electrical equipment that is conventionally white, as washing machines and refrigerators. white grape: that is green or amber when ripe. white grub the larva of a chafer, esp. the cockchafer, which is a pest of grass and cereal roots. White Guard, White Guardist Hist. (a) a member of a force fighting for the government in the Finnish civil war of 1918; (b) a member of a counter-revolutionary force fighting in the Russian civil war of 1918-21. white-gum any of numerous Australian eucalypts, with white or light-coloured bark. white-haired adjective having white hair (white-haired boy (colloq.), a favourite, a pet). white hake: see HAKE noun1 2a. white-hat slang a good man; a hero. whitehead (a) colloq. a white or white-topped skin-pustule; (b) NZ a bird of a race of the yellowhead, Mohoua ochrocephala, with a white head and underparts, found on North Island and neighbouring islands. white-headed adjective (a) (of an animal) having white hair or plumage on the head; white-headed eagle, white-headed sea-eagle, the N. American bald eagle, Haliaeetus leucocephalus; (b) (of a person) having white or very fair hair, flaxen-haired; white-headed boy (colloq.), a favourite, a pet. white-heart (a) (more fully white-heart cherry) a pale yellow, red-tinged, variety of sweet cherry; (b) malleable cast iron made by keeping white iron at a high temperature for several days in an oxidizing environment, so as to remove the carbon from the surface layers. white heat (a) (the degree of heat corresponding to) the condition of being white-hot; (b) fig. a state of intense passion or activity. white HELLEBORE. white heron = great white egret s.v. GREAT adjective. White Highlands Hist. an area in western Kenya formerly (1909-59) reserved for Europeans. white hole Astronomy a hypothetical celestial object which expands outwards from a space-time singularity emitting energy, in the manner of a time-reversed black hole. white hope (a) Hist. a white boxer thought capable of beating Jack Johnson, the first black boxer to be world heavyweight champion (1908-15); (b) transf. a person or thing expected to achieve much for a group, organization, etc. white horehound: see HOREHOUND 1. white horse (a) a representation of a white horse; spec. any of several cut on chalk-downs in England; (b) (usu. in pl.) a white-crested wave; (c) a tough sinewy substance lying between the upper jaw and junk of a sperm-whale. white-hot (a) sufficiently hot to radiate white light; (b) fig. (of emotion) intense, violent; (of a person) very talented; (of news etc.) sensational, completely new; (cf. RED-HOT). white house (a) (with cap. initials) [the official residence of the US President in Washington] the US President; the US Presidency; the US Government; (b) Scot. (obsolete exc. Hist.) a house built of mortared stone in NW Scotland and the Hebrides. White Hun Hist. a member of a nomadic people who lived in Bactria in the 5th and 6th cents. white hunter a white man who hunts big game professionally. white information positive information about a person's creditworthiness held by a bank etc. white ipecacuanha: see IPECACUANHA 2. white iron (a) (now rare or obsolete) tin-plate; (b) cast iron of a silvery colour containing most or all of its carbon in combination; (c) white iron pyrites, marcasite. White Kaffir: see KAFFIR noun 2c. white KARANTEEN. white kerria: see KERRIA 2. white knight (a) a person who or thing which comes to the aid of someone; spec. (Stock Exchange slang) a welcome company bidding for a company facing an unwelcome takeover bid; (b) [with allus. to a character in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass] an enthusiastic but ineffectual person. white-knuckle adjective (colloq.) (esp. of a fairground ride) causing fear or terror; showing fear or terror. white-knuckled adjective having white knuckles, esp. tense from fear or terror. white label a musical recording for which the fully printed commercial label is not yet available, and which has been supplied with a plain label before general release for promotional purposes. White Lady (a) a cocktail made with gin, orange liqueur, and lemon juice; (b) Austral. slang a drink of or containing methylated spirits; (c) an apparition of a woman, a ghost. white land (a) slang [after its being uncoloured on planning maps] open land not designated for development or change of use, or on which development is not allowed; (b) see sense 2 above. white lead (a) basic lead carbonate, used as a white pigment in paint, mixed with linseed oil to make putty, and in ointments (also called ceruse); (b) basic lead sulphate or basic lead silicate used as a similar white pigment; (c) white lead ore = CERUSSITE. white leg Medicine = PHLEGMASIA alba dolens. white letter (a) arch. (printing in) roman type; (b) white-letter hairstreak, a small European lycaenid butterfly, Strymonidia w-album, which is mainly dark brown with a white W-shaped streak on the underside of the hindwing. white level Television the signal level corresponding to the maximum brightness in transmitted pictures. white lie a harmless or trivial untruth. white lightning slang (a) US inferior or illicitly distilled whiskey; (b) a type of LSD. white lime lime mixed with water as a coating for walls; whitewash. white-lime verb trans. (now rare or obsolete) whitewash. white line (a) Printing a space equivalent to one line left blank between two lines of type; (b) Engraving an engraved line which prints white; the art or technique of using such lines; (c) US slang alcohol as a drink; (d) a narrow white strip painted on the road surface to guide or direct motorists. white-lipped adjective having white lips, esp. tense from fear, terror, or rage; white-lipped peccary, a Central and S. American peccary, Tayassu pecari, with white bristles on the lips and chin. white list colloq. [after blacklist s.v. BLACK adjective] a list of the names of people or things considered acceptable. white liver arch. [from the belief that a deficiency of bile or 'choler' resulted in a light-coloured liver and lack of spirit] the supposedly pale liver of a coward (cf. LILY liver). white-livered adjective (arch.) feeble-spirited, cowardly. white loaf: see LOAF noun1. white magic: see MAGIC noun. white magnesia: see MAGNESIA 3. white mahogany (a) a W. Indian tree, Antirhea jamaicensis, of the madder family; (b) an Australian eucalypt, Eucalyptus robusta. white maidenhair: see MAIDENHAIR 2. white man a man belonging to a light-skinned people, a white (the white man's burden, the supposed task of white people to civilize black people; the white man's grave, equatorial W. Africa considered as being particularly unhealthy for white people). white mangrove: see MANGROVE 2. white matter the whitish tissue in the vertebrate central nervous system consisting mainly of myelinated nerve fibres, situated below the grey matter of the cortex and next to the core of the spinal cord. white meat (a) collect. sing. & pl. (obsolete exc. dial.) dairy produce (also occas. eggs); foods prepared from milk; (b) pale meat, as poultry, veal, pork, and rabbit; (c) coarse slang (chiefly US) white women regarded collectively as a means of sexual gratification. white MERGANSER. white metal any of various alloys of a light silvery-grey colour. white meter a meter for measuring the off-peak consumption of electricity. white mica a light-coloured mica; spec. muscovite. white money silver coins. white monk a Cistercian monk. white mouse (a) an albino form of the house mouse, widely bred as a pet and laboratory animal; (b) the collared lemming, Dicrostonyx torquatus. white mulberry: see MULBERRY noun 1. white mule US slang illicitly distilled whiskey. white muscle disease a nutritional disease of calves and lambs due to vitamin E deficiency, causing weakness, dysphoea, collapse, and heart failure. white mustard: see MUSTARD noun 2. white-necked adjective having a white neck; white-necked raven, either of two ravens with some white neck feathers, Corvus albicollis of Africa, and C. Cryptoleucus of southern N. America. white negro (a) a black person, or a person with black ancestry, who has a pale or albino complexion; (b) a white person who defends the rights or interests of black people. white nickel (ore) = CHLOANTHITE. white nigger US slang (derog. & considered racially offensive) (a) a white person who does menial labour; (b) a black person who is regarded as deferring to white people or accepting a role prescribed by them. white night (a) [translating French nuit blanche] a sleepless night; (b) a night when it is never properly dark, as in high latitudes in summer. white noise: having approximately equal intensities at all the frequencies of its range. white note Music (a) a note with an open head; (b) a note corresponding to a white key on a keyboard. white nutmeg an old variety of peach with white aromatic flesh. white oak any of several N. American oaks, esp. Quercus alba, which has a pale bark and resembles the English oak, Q. robur; the wood of such a tree; swamp white oak: see SWAMP noun. white oil (a) crude oil that is pale in colour; (b) a colourless petroleum distillate; spec. liquid paraffin used medicinally and in the food and plastic industries. white owl an owl with white plumage; esp. (a) the barn owl; (b) the snowy owl. whitepainter Canad. colloq. a renovator of houses. whitepainting Canad. colloq. renovation of houses. White Paper (a) Hist. a corrected and revised version of an Order Paper of the House of Commons issued earlier the same day; (b) a British Government report giving information or proposals on an issue. white park cattle: see park cattle s.v. PARK noun. white pelican a pelican with white plumage; esp. Pelecanus onocrotalus of the Old World, and P. erythrorhynchos of North and Central America. white pepper: see PEPPER noun 1. white perch N. Amer. any of several pale-coloured percoid fishes; esp. Morone americana (family Percichthyidae), found in the fresh and coastal waters of eastern N. America. white PEROBA. white phosphorus the ordinary allotrope of phosphorus, a translucent waxy whitish or yellowish solid which is poisonous and very reactive; also called yellow phosphorus. white pine (a) N. Amer. (the pale timber of) any of several pines, esp. the Weymouth pine, Pinus strobus (western white pine: see WESTERN adjective); white pine weevil, a brown weevil, Pissodes strobi, the larvae of which tunnel into the shoots of the Weymouth pine and other conifers; (b) any of several Australasian conifers, esp. (Austral.) a cypress pine, Callitris glaucophylla, and (NZ) the kahikatea, Podocarpus dacrydioides. white pipe tree: see PIPE noun1. white plague arch. tuberculosis. white-point a European noctuid moth, Mythimna albipuncta, which has a white dot on each forewing. white pointer = white shark below. white pomfret: see POMFRET 1. white poplar a freq. planted Eurasian poplar, Populus alba, with palmately lobed leaves covered with dense white down beneath. white port: made from white grapes. white potato: see POTATO noun 2. whitepox a poxvirus isolated from monkeys, causing variola minor infection. white precipitate: see PRECIPITATE noun 1. white-print a document printed in white on a dark ground. white pudding a kind of sausage made of oatmeal and suet. white racism belief in the superiority of white people over non-white people, esp. black people. white racist adjective & noun (a) adjective of, pertaining to, or characterized by white racism; (b) noun a believer or practitioner of white racism. White Raja Hist. any of the three Rajas belonging to the English family of Brooke who ruled Sarawak from 1841 to 1941. white rat: see RAT noun1. white rent (obsolete exc. Hist.) rent payable in silver money. white rhinoceros: see RHINOCEROS 1. white ribboner a person who wears a white ribbon as a badge of temperance, a teetotaller. white rod Hist. = white staff below. white room a clean dust-free room for the assembly, repair, or storage of spacecraft. white rose: see ROSE noun 6. white rot (a) any of several fungal diseases of wood or living plants indicated by white patches of decay; (b) (with hyphen) any of several plants of damp ground believed to cause liver rot in sheep, esp. marsh pennywort, Hydrocotyle vulgaris, and butterwort, Pinguicula vulgaris. white rum (a drink of) a colourless variety of rum. white rust (a) any of various fungal diseases of plants characterized by white blisters on leaves or stems, esp. one caused by Albugo candida (affecting cruciferous plants) or Puccinia horiana (affecting chrysanthemums); (b) a white coating that forms on zinc in moist air, consisting of zinc oxide and (usu.) some basic carbonate. white sage: see SAGE noun1 1b. white sale a shop sale of household linen. white sandalwood: see SANDALWOOD 1. white sanicle: see SANICLE 2. white sapphire a colourless variety of corundum. white satin: see SATIN noun 2, 3, 4. white sauce: made with flour, melted butter, and milk or cream. white scour a bacterial disease of young calves due to enteric infection with Escherichia coli, causing severe diarrhoea, dehydration, and often death. white scourge arch. tuberculosis. white scours = white scour above. white SEA-bass. white SERAYA. white shark a large and dangerous shark, Carcharadon carcharias, which is found in the temperate and tropical regions of all oceans. white-shoe adjective (colloq.) (a) (chiefly US) effeminate; immature; (b) US denoting a company (esp. a law firm) owned and run by white upper-class Americans and typically regarded as cautious and conservative; (c) Australian Politics of, belonging to, or supporting the conservative Queensland National Party. White Sister a nun belonging to an order or congregation distinguished by a white habit. white-skin a white person (cf. redskin s.v. RED adjective). white slave spec. a (white) woman who is trapped or forced into prostitution, usu. abroad. white slavery spec. traffic in white slaves. white sock: see SOCK noun1. white soup soup made with white stock. white spirit (a) a volatile colourless liquid distillate of petroleum that boils between about 150C and 200C and is widely used as a paint thinner and solvent; (b) in pl., colourless spirits as gin, vodka, etc. white spot a Eurasian noctuid moth, Hadena albimacula, which has a large white spot on each forewing. white spruce a N. American spruce, Picea glauca, with blue-green foliage. white squall: see SQUALL noun1 1. white squill: see SQUILL 2a. white staff Hist. any of various royal or governmental offices symbolized by a white staff; an official holding such an office. white stick spec. (a) Hist. = white staff above; (b) a white walking-stick carried by a blind person both as a distinguishing feature and to locate obstacles. white stock stock made with chicken, veal, or pork. white STOMPNEUS. white stone (a) a colourless gemstone; (b) (freq. whitestone) a form of rendering; (c) mark with a white stone, regard as specially fortunate or happy (with allus. to the ancient practice of using a white stone as a memorial of a happy event). white stopper: see STOPPER noun 5. white stork: see STORK noun 1. white stuff slang (chiefly US) heroin; cocaine. white sugar purified sugar. white supremacism the doctrine or practice of white supremacists. white supremacist noun & adjective (a) noun a believer or practitioner of white supremacy; (b) adjective of, pertaining to, or characterized by white supremacy. white supremacy domination by white people over non-white people, esp. black people. white swallowwort: see SWALLOWWORT 1. whitetail (deer) = white-tailed deer below. white-tailed adjective having a white tail;
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