Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

   {White elm} (Bot.), a majestic tree of North America ({Ulmus
      Americana}), the timber of which is much used for hubs of
      wheels, and for other purposes.

   {White ensign}. See {Saint George's ensign}, under {Saint}.
      

   {White feather}, a mark or symbol of cowardice. See {To show
      the white feather}, under {Feather}, n.

   {White fir} (Bot.), a name given to several coniferous trees
      of the Pacific States, as {Abies grandis}, and {A.
      concolor}.

   {White flesher} (Zo["o]l.), the ruffed grouse. See under
      {Ruffed}. [Canada]

   {White frost}. See {Hoarfrost}.

   {White game} (Zo["o]l.), the white ptarmigan.

   {White garnet} (Min.), leucite.

   {White grass} (Bot.), an American grass ({Leersia Virginica})
      with greenish-white pale[ae].

   {White grouse}. (Zo["o]l.)
      (a) The white ptarmigan.
      (b) The prairie chicken. [Local, U. S.]

   {White grub} (Zo["o]l.), the larva of the June bug and other
      allied species. These grubs eat the roots of grasses and
      other plants, and often do much damage.

   {White hake} (Zo["o]l.), the squirrel hake. See under
      {Squirrel}.

   {White hawk}, or {kite} (Zo["o]l.), the hen harrier.

   {White heat}, the temperature at which bodies become
      incandescent, and appear white from the bright light which
      they emit.

   {White hellebore} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Veratrum}
      ({V. album}) See {Hellebore}, 2.

   {White herring}, a fresh, or unsmoked, herring, as
      distinguished from a red, or cured, herring. [R.] --Shak.

   {White hoolet} (Zo["o]l.), the barn owl. [Prov. Eng.]

   {White horses} (Naut.), white-topped waves; whitecaps.

   {The White House}. See under {House}.

   {White ibis} (Zo["o]l.), an American ibis ({Guara alba})
      having the plumage pure white, except the tips of the
      wings, which are black. It inhabits tropical America and
      the Southern United States. Called also {Spanish curlew}.
      

   {White iron}.
      (a) Thin sheets of iron coated with tin; tinned iron.
      (b) A hard, silvery-white cast iron containing a large
          proportion of combined carbon.

   {White iron pyrites} (Min.), marcasite.

   {White land}, a tough clayey soil, of a whitish hue when dry,
      but blackish after rain. [Eng.]

   {White lark} (Zo["o]l.), the snow bunting.

   {White lead}.
      (a) A carbonate of lead much used in painting, and for
          other purposes; ceruse.
      (b) (Min.) Native lead carbonate; cerusite.

   {White leather}, buff leather; leather tanned with alum and
      salt.

   {White leg} (Med.), milk leg. See under {Milk}.

   {White lettuce} (Bot.), rattlesnake root. See under
      {Rattlesnake}.

   {White lie}. See under {Lie}.

   {White light}.
      (a) (Physics) Light having the different colors in the
          same proportion as in the light coming directly from
          the sun, without having been decomposed, as by passing
          through a prism. See the Note under {Color}, n., 1.
      (b) A kind of firework which gives a brilliant white
          illumination for signals, etc.

   {White lime}, a solution or preparation of lime for
      whitewashing; whitewash.

   {White line} (Print.), a void space of the breadth of a line,
      on a printed page; a blank line.

   {White meat}.
      (a) Any light-colored flesh, especially of poultry.
      (b) Food made from milk or eggs, as butter, cheese, etc.

                Driving their cattle continually with them, and
                feeding only upon their milk and white meats.
                                                  --Spenser.

   {White merganser} (Zo["o]l.), the smew.

   {White metal}.
      (a) Any one of several white alloys, as pewter, britannia,
          etc.
      (b) (Metal.) A fine grade of copper sulphide obtained at a
          certain stage in copper smelting.

   {White miller}. (Zo["o]l.)
      (a) The common clothes moth.
      (b) A common American bombycid moth ({Spilosoma
          Virginica}) which is pure white with a few small black
          spots; -- called also {ermine moth}, and {virgin
          moth}. See {Woolly bear}, under {Woolly}.

   {White money}, silver money.

   {White mouse} (Zo["o]l.), the albino variety of the common
      mouse.

   {White mullet} (Zo["o]l.), a silvery mullet ({Mugil curema})
      ranging from the coast of the United States to Brazil; --
      called also {blue-back mullet}, and {liza}.

   {White nun} (Zo["o]l.), the smew; -- so called from the white
      crest and the band of black feathers on the back of its
      head, which give the appearance of a hood.

   {White oak}. (Bot.) See under {Oak}.

   {White owl}. (Zo["o]l.)
      (a) The snowy owl.
      (b) The barn owl.

   {White partridge} (Zo["o]l.), the white ptarmigan.

   {White perch}. (Zo["o]l.)
      (a) A North American fresh-water bass ({Morone Americana})
          valued as a food fish.
      (b) The croaker, or fresh-water drum.
      (c) Any California surf fish.

   {White pine}. (Bot.) See the Note under {Pine}.

   {White poplar} (Bot.), a European tree ({Populus alba}) often
      cultivated as a shade tree in America; abele.

   {White poppy} (Bot.), the opium-yielding poppy. See {Poppy}.
      

   {White powder}, a kind of gunpowder formerly believed to
      exist, and to have the power of exploding without noise.
      [Obs.]

            A pistol charged with white powder.   --Beau. & Fl.

   {White precipitate}. (Old Chem.) See under {Precipitate}.

   {White rabbit}. (Zo["o]l.)
      (a) The American northern hare in its winter pelage.
      (b) An albino rabbit.

   {White rent},
      (a) (Eng. Law) Formerly, rent payable in silver; --
          opposed to black rent. See {Blackmail}, n., 3.
      (b) A rent, or duty, of eight pence, payable yearly by
          every tinner in Devon and Cornwall to the Duke of
          Cornwall, as lord of the soil. [Prov. Eng.]

   {White rhinoceros}. (Zo["o]l.)
      (a) The one-horned, or Indian, rhinoceros ({Rhinoceros
          Indicus}). See {Rhinoceros}.
      (b) The umhofo.

   {White ribbon}, the distinctive badge of certain
      organizations for the promotion of temperance or of moral
      purity; as, the White-ribbon Army.

   {White rope} (Naut.), untarred hemp rope.

   {White rot}. (Bot.)
      (a) Either of several plants, as marsh pennywort and
          butterwort, which were thought to produce the disease
          called rot in sheep.
      (b) A disease of grapes. See {White rot}, under {Rot}.

   {White sage} (Bot.), a white, woolly undershrub ({Eurotia
      lanata}) of Western North America; -- called also {winter
      fat}.

   {White salmon} (Zo["o]l.), the silver salmon.

   {White salt}, salt dried and calcined; decrepitated salt.

   {White scale} (Zo["o]l.), a scale insect ({Aspidiotus Nerii})
      injurious to the orange tree. See {Orange scale}, under
      {Orange}.

   {White shark} (Zo["o]l.), a species of man-eating shark. See
      under {Shark}.

   {White softening}. (Med.) See {Softening of the brain}, under
      {Softening}.

   {White spruce}. (Bot.) See {Spruce}, n., 1.

   {White squall} (Naut.), a sudden gust of wind, or furious
      blow, which comes up without being marked in its approach
      otherwise than by whitecaps, or white, broken water, on
      the surface of the sea.

   {White staff}, the badge of the lord high treasurer of
      England. --Macaulay.

   {White stork} (Zo["o]l.), the common European stork.

   {White sturgeon}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Shovelnose}
      (d) .

   {White sucker}. (Zo["o]l.)
      (a) The common sucker.
      (b) The common red horse ({Moxostoma macrolepidotum}).

   {White swelling} (Med.), a chronic swelling of the knee,
      produced by a strumous inflammation of the synovial
      membranes of the kneejoint and of the cancellar texture of
      the end of the bone forming the kneejoint; -- applied also
      to a lingering chronic swelling of almost any kind.

   {White tombac}. See {Tombac}.

   {White trout} (Zo["o]l.), the white weakfish, or silver
      squeteague ({Cynoscion nothus}), of the Southern United
      States.

   {White vitriol} (Chem.), hydrous sulphate of zinc. See {White
      vitriol}, under {Vitriol}.

   {White wagtail} (Zo["o]l.), the common, or pied, wagtail.

   {White wax}, beeswax rendered white by bleaching.

   {White whale} (Zo["o]l.), the beluga.

   {White widgeon} (Zo["o]l.), the smew.

   {White wine}. any wine of a clear, transparent color,
      bordering on white, as Madeira, sherry, Lisbon, etc.; --
      distinguished from wines of a deep red color, as port and
      Burgundy. ``White wine of Lepe.'' --Chaucer.

   {White witch}, a witch or wizard whose supernatural powers
      are supposed to be exercised for good and beneficent
      purposes. --Addison. --Cotton Mather.

   {White wolf}. (Zo["o]l.)
      (a) A light-colored wolf ({Canis laniger}) native of
          Thibet; -- called also {chanco}, {golden wolf}, and
          {Thibetan wolf}.
      (b) The albino variety of the gray wolf.

   {White wren} (Zo["o]l.), the willow warbler; -- so called
      from the color of the under parts.

Wolf \Wolf\, n.; pl. {Wolves}. [OE. wolf, wulf, AS. wulf; akin
   to OS. wulf, D. & G. wolf, Icel. [=u]lfr, Sw. ulf, Dan. ulv,
   Goth. wulfs, Lith. vilkas, Russ. volk', L. lupus, Gr. ly`kos,
   Skr. v[.r]ka; also to Gr. "e`lkein to draw, drag, tear in
   pieces. [root]286. Cf. {Lupine}, a., {Lyceum}.]
   1. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of wild and savage
      carnivores belonging to the genus {Canis} and closely
      allied to the common dog. The best-known and most
      destructive species are the European wolf ({Canis lupus}),
      the American gray, or timber, wolf ({C. occidentalis}),
      and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in
      packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.

   2. (Zo["o]l.) One of the destructive, and usually hairy,
      larv[ae] of several species of beetles and grain moths;
      as, the bee wolf.

   3. Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person
      or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled
      hard to keep the wolf from the door.

   4. A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.

   5. An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. {Lupus}. [Obs.]

            If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf
            into thy side.                        --Jer. Taylor.

   6. (Mus.)
      (a) The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an
          organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament.
      (b) In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective
          vibration in certain notes of the scale.

   7. (Textile Manuf.) A willying machine. --Knight.

   {Black wolf}. (Zo["o]l.)
      (a) A black variety of the European wolf which is common
          in the Pyrenees.
      (b) A black variety of the American gray wolf.

   {Golden wolf} (Zo["o]l.), the Thibetan wolf ({Canis
      laniger}); -- called also {chanco}.

   {Indian wolf} (Zo["o]l.), an Asiatic wolf ({Canis pallipes})
      which somewhat resembles a jackal. Called also {landgak}.
      

   {Prairie wolf} (Zo["o]l.), the coyote.

   {Sea wolf}. (Zo["o]l.) See in the Vocabulary.

   {Strand wolf} (Zo["o]l.) the striped hyena.

   {Tasmanian wolf} (Zo["o]l.), the zebra wolf.

   {Tiger wolf} (Zo["o]l.), the spotted hyena.

   {To keep the wolf from the door}, to keep away poverty; to
      prevent starvation. See {Wolf}, 3, above. --Tennyson.

   {Wolf dog}. (Zo["o]l.)
      (a) The mastiff, or shepherd dog, of the Pyrenees,
          supposed by some authors to be one of the ancestors of
          the St. Bernard dog.
      (b) The Irish greyhound, supposed to have been used
          formerly by the Danes for chasing wolves.
      (c) A dog bred between a dog and a wolf, as the Eskimo
          dog.

   {Wolf eel} (Zo["o]l.), a wolf fish.

   {Wolf fish} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of large,
      voracious marine fishes of the genus {Anarrhichas},
      especially the common species ({A. lupus}) of Europe and
      North America. These fishes have large teeth and powerful
      jaws. Called also {catfish}, {sea cat}, {sea wolf}, {stone
      biter}, and {swinefish}.

   {Wolf net}, a kind of net used in fishing, which takes great
      numbers of fish.

   {Wolf's peach} (Bot.), the tomato, or love apple
      ({Lycopersicum esculentum}).

   {Wolf spider} (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of
      running ground spiders belonging to the genus {Lycosa}, or
      family {Lycosid[ae]}. These spiders run about rapidly in
      search of their prey. Most of them are plain brown or
      blackish in color. See Illust. in App.

   {Zebra wolf} (Zo["o]l.), a savage carnivorous marsupial
      ({Thylacinus cynocephalus}) native of Tasmania; -- called
      also {Tasmanian wolf}.