Word Meanings - DEALBATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To whiten. Cockeram.

Related words: (words related to DEALBATE)

• WHITENESS
  A flock of swans. (more info) 1. The quality or state of being white; white color, or freedom from darkness or obscurity on the surface. Chaucer. 2. Want of a sanguineous tinge; paleness; as from terror, grief, etc. "The whiteness in thy cheek."
• WHITENING
  1. The act or process of making or becoming white. 2. That which is used to render white; whiting. Whitening stone, a sharpening and polishing stone used by cutlers; also, a finishing grindstone of fine texture.
• WHITEN
  To grow white; to turn or become white or whiter; as, the hair whitens with age; the sea whitens with foam; the trees in spring whiten with blossoms. (more info) Etym:
• WHITENER
  One who, or that which, whitens; a bleacher; a blancher; a whitewasher.