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Noun
- (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth
- (board games) the lighter pieces
- the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water
- she separated the whites from the yolks of several eggs
- a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri
- United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918)
- United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985)
- United States architect (1853-1906)
- United States political journalist (1915-1986)
- Australian writer (1912-1990)
- United States jurist appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1910 by President Taft; noted for his work on antitrust legislation (1845-1921)
- the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
- a member of the Caucasoid race
Verb
- turn white
- This detergent will whiten your laundry
Adjective
- of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets
- anemic looking from illness or emotion
- the invalid's blanched cheeks
- tried to speak with bloodless lips
- lips...livid with the hue of death- Mary W. Shelley
- (of hair) having lost its color
- the white hairs of old age
- (of coffee) having cream or milk added
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
- benevolent; without malicious intent
- glowing white with heat
- a white-hot center of the fire
- restricted to whites only
- under segregation there were even white restrooms and white drinking fountains
- a lily-white movement which would expel Negroes from the organization
- marked by the presence of snow
- the white hills of a northern winter
- free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied
- of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration
- voting patterns within the white population
- being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light