Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

White \White\, a. [Compar. {Whiter}; superl. {Whitest}.] [OE.
   whit, AS. hw?t; akin to OFries. and OS. hw[=i]t, D. wit, G.
   weiss, OHG. w[=i]z, hw[=i]z, Icel. hv[=i]tr, Sw. hvit, Dan.
   hvid, Goth. hweits, Lith. szveisti, to make bright, Russ.
   sviet' light, Skr. ?v?ta white, ?vit to be bright. ???. Cf.
   {Wheat}, {Whitsunday}.]
   1. Reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum
      combined; not tinted with any of the proper colors or
      their mixtures; having the color of pure snow; snowy; --
      the opposite of {black} or {dark}; as, white paper; a
      white skin. ``Pearls white.'' --Chaucer.

            White as the whitest lily on a stream. --Longfellow.

   2. Destitute of color, as in the cheeks, or of the tinge of
      blood color; pale; pallid; as, white with fear.

            Or whispering with white lips, ``The foe! They come!
            they come!''                          --Byron.

   3. Having the color of purity; free from spot or blemish, or
      from guilt or pollution; innocent; pure.

            White as thy fame, and as thy honor clear. --Dryden.

            No whiter page than Addison's remains. --Pope.

   4. Gray, as from age; having silvery hair; hoary.

            Your high engendered battles 'gainst a head So old
            and white as this.                    --Shak.

   5. Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the
      like; fortunate; happy; favorable.

            On the whole, however, the dominie reckoned this as
            one of the white days of his life.    --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.

   6. Regarded with especial favor; favorite; darling.

            Come forth, my white spouse.          --Chaucer.

            I am his white boy, and will not be gullet. --Ford.

   Note: White is used in many self-explaining compounds, as
         white-backed, white-bearded, white-footed.

   {White alder}. (Bot.) See {Sweet pepper bush}, under
      {Pepper}.

   {White ant} (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of social
      pseudoneuropterous insects of the genus {Termes}. These
      insects are very abundant in tropical countries, and form
      large and complex communities consisting of numerous
      asexual workers of one or more kinds, of large-headed
      asexual individuals called soldiers, of one or more queens
      (or fertile females) often having the body enormously
      distended by the eggs, and, at certain seasons of numerous
      winged males, together with the larv[ae] and pup[ae] of
      each kind in various stages of development. Many of the
      species construct large and complicated nests, sometimes
      in the form of domelike structures rising several feet
      above the ground and connected with extensive subterranean
      galleries and chambers. In their social habits they
      closely resemble the true ants. They feed upon animal and
      vegetable substances of various kinds, including timber,
      and are often very destructive to buildings and furniture.
      

   {White arsenic} (Chem.), arsenious oxide, {As2O3}, a
      substance of a white color, and vitreous adamantine
      luster, having an astringent, sweetish taste. It is a
      deadly poison.

   {White bass} (Zo["o]l.), a fresh-water North American bass
      ({Roccus chrysops}) found in the Great Likes.

   {White bear} (Zo["o]l.), the polar bear. See under {Polar}.
      

   {White blood cell}. (Physiol.) See {Leucocyte}.

   {White brand} (Zo["o]l.), the snow goose.

   {White brass}, a white alloy of copper; white copper.

   {White campion}. (Bot.)
      (a) A kind of catchfly ({Silene stellata}) with white
          flowers.
      (b) A white-flowered Lychnis ({Lychnis vespertina}).

   {White canon} (R. C. Ch.), a Premonstratensian.

   {White caps}, the members of a secret organization in various
      of the United States, who attempt to drive away or reform
      obnoxious persons by lynch-law methods. They appear masked
      in white.

   {White cedar} (Bot.), an evergreen tree of North America
      ({Thuja occidentalis}), also the related {Cupressus
      thyoides}, or {Cham[ae]cyparis sph[ae]roidea}, a slender
      evergreen conifer which grows in the so-called cedar
      swamps of the Northern and Atlantic States. Both are much
      valued for their durable timber. In California the name is
      given to the {Libocedrus decurrens}, the timber of which
      is also useful, though often subject to dry rot.
      --Goodale. The white cedar of Demerara, Guiana, etc., is a
      lofty tree ({Icica, or Bursera, altissima}) whose fragrant
      wood is used for canoes and cabinetwork, as it is not
      attacked by insect.

   {White cell}. (Physiol.) See {Leucocyte}.

   {White cell-blood} (Med.), leucocyth[ae]mia.

   {White clover} (Bot.), a species of small perennial clover
      bearing white flowers. It furnishes excellent food for
      cattle and horses, as well as for the honeybee. See also
      under {Clover}.

   {White copper}, a whitish alloy of copper. See {German
      silver}, under {German}.

   {White copperas} (Min.), a native hydrous sulphate of iron;
      coquimbite.

   {White coral} (Zo["o]l.), an ornamental branched coral
      ({Amphihelia oculata}) native of the Mediterranean.

   {White corpuscle}. (Physiol.) See {Leucocyte}.

   {White cricket} (Zo["o]l.), the tree cricket.

   {White crop}, a crop of grain which loses its green color, or
      becomes white, in ripening, as wheat, rye, barley, and
      oats, as distinguished from a green crop, or a root crop.
      

   {White currant} (Bot.), a variety of the common red currant,
      having white berries.

   {White daisy} (Bot.), the oxeye daisy. See under {Daisy}.

   {White damp}, a kind of poisonous gas encountered in coal
      mines. --Raymond.

   {White elephant} (Zo["o]l.), a whitish, or albino, variety of
      the Asiatic elephant.

White \White\, n.
   1. The color of pure snow; one of the natural colors of
      bodies, yet not strictly a color, but a composition of all
      colors; the opposite of black; whiteness. See the Note
      under {Color}, n., 1.

            Finely attired in a of white.         --Shak.

   2. Something having the color of snow; something white, or
      nearly so; as, the white of the eye.

   3. Specifically, the central part of the butt in archery,
      which was formerly painted white; the center of a mark at
      which a missile is shot.

            'T was I won the wager, though you hit the white.
                                                  --Shak.

   4. A person with a white skin; a member of the white, or
      Caucasian, races of men.

   5. A white pigment; as, Venice white.

   6. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of butterflies
      belonging to {Pieris}, and allied genera in which the
      color is usually white. See {Cabbage butterfly}, under
      {Cabbage}.

   {Black and white}. See under {Black}.

   {Flake white}, {Paris white}, etc. See under {Flack},
      {Paris}, etc.

   {White of a seed} (Bot.), the albumen. See {Albumen}, 2.

   {White of egg}, the viscous pellucid fluid which surrounds
      the yolk in an egg, particularly in the egg of a fowl. In
      a hen's egg it is alkaline, and contains about 86 per cent
      of water and 14 per cent of solid matter, the greater
      portion of which is egg albumin. It likewise contains a
      small amount of globulin, and traces of fats and sugar,
      with some inorganic matter. Heated above 60[deg] C. it
      coagulates to a solid mass, owing to the albumin which it
      contains. --Parr.

   {White of the eye} (Anat.), the white part of the ball of the
      eye surrounding the transparent cornea.

White \White\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Whited}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Whiting}.] [AS. hw[=i]tan.]
   To make white; to whiten; to whitewash; to bleach.

         Whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful
         outward, but are within full of . . . uncleanness.
                                                  --Matt. xxiii.
                                                  27.

         So as no fuller on earth can white them. --Mark. ix. 3.

Source : WordNet®

White
     n 1: a member of the Caucasoid race [syn: {white person}, {Caucasian}]
     2: the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest
        lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black) [syn: {whiteness}]
        [ant: {black}]
     3: Australian writer (1912-1990) [syn: {Patrick White}, {Patrick
        Victor Martindale White}]
     4: United States political journalist (1915-1986) [syn: {T. H.
        White}, {Theodore Harold White}]
     5: United States architect (1853-1906) [syn: {Stanford White}]
     6: United States writer noted for his humorous essays
        (1899-1985) [syn: {E. B. White}, {Elwyn Brooks White}]
     7: United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell)
        founded Cornell University and served as its first
        president (1832-1918) [syn: {Andrew D. White}, {Andrew
        Dickson White}]
     8: a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows
        southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern
        Missouri [syn: {White River}]
     9: (board games) the lighter pieces [ant: {black}]
     10: (usually in the plural) trousers [syn: {flannel}, {gabardine},
          {tweed}]