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Word Meanings - WHITENING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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  • MAKE AND BREAK
    Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
  • WHITECAP
    The European redstart; -- so called from its white forehead. The whitethroat; -- so called from its gray head. The European tree sparrow. 2. A wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the wind is freshening.
  • WHITE-FRONTED
    Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.
  • WHITE FLY
    Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.
  • GRINDSTONE
    A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed,
  • WHITESTER
    A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster.
  • WHITE-HEART
    A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
  • STONEBRASH
    A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
  • WHITING
    A common European food fish of the Codfish family; -- called also fittin. A North American fish allied to the preceding; -- called also silver hake. Any one of several species of North American marine sciænoid food fishes belonging to genus
  • WHITESIDE
    The golden-eye.
  • WHITE-EAR
    The wheatear.
  • MAKING-IRON
    A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
  • FINISHER
    1. One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection. O prophet of glad tidings,
  • WHITEBLOW
    See WHITLOW
  • STONEROOT
    A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.
  • PROCESSIVE
    Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
  • WHITLING
    A young full trout during its second season.
  • POLISHMENT
    The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
  • PROCESSIONALIST
    One who goes or marches in a procession.
  • FINISH
    1. To come to an end; to terminate. His days may finish ere that hapless time. Shak. 2. To end; to die. Shak.
  • PITCHSTONE
    An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
  • CAPSTONE
    A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.
  • CLINKSTONE
    An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
  • UNBECOMING
    Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
  • MANTUAMAKER
    One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
  • MOORSTONE
    A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
  • RUBSTONE
    A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.
  • GRINDLE STONE
    A grindstone.
  • HEPPELWHITE
    Designating a light and elegant style developed in England under George III., chiefly by Messrs. A.Heppelwhite & Co.
  • BOOTMAKER
    One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.

 

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