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Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

Whiting \Whit"ing\, n. [From {White}.]
   1. (Zo["o]l.)
      (a) A common European food fish ({Melangus vulgaris}) of
          the Codfish family; -- called also {fittin}.
      (b) A North American fish ({Merlucius vulgaris}) allied to
          the preceding; -- called also {silver hake}.
      (c) Any one of several species of North American marine
          sci[ae]noid food fishes belonging to genus
          {Menticirrhus}, especially {M. Americanus}, found from
          Maryland to Brazil, and {M. littoralis}, common from
          Virginia to Texas; -- called also {silver whiting},
          and {surf whiting}.

   Note: Various other fishes are locally called whiting, as the
         kingfish
      (a), the sailor's choice
      (b), the Pacific tomcod, and certain species of lake
          whitefishes.

   2. Chalk prepared in an impalpable powder by pulverizing and
      repeated washing, used as a pigment, as an ingredient in
      putty, for cleaning silver, etc.

   {Whiting pollack}. (Zo["o]l.) Same as {Pollack}.

   {Whiting pout} (Zo["o]l.), the bib, 2.

Source : WordNet®

whiting
     n 1: flesh of a cod-like fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe
     2: flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially
        of Atlantic coasts of North America
     3: a small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish
     4: any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters
     5: found off Atlantic coast of North America [syn: {silver hake},
         {Merluccius bilinearis}]
     6: a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the
        cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus [syn: {Merlangus
        merlangus}, {Gadus merlangus}]
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