资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.
Paris \Par"is\, n.
The chief city of France.
{Paris green}. See under {Green}, n.
{Paris white} (Chem.), purified chalk used as a pigment;
whiting; Spanish white.