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1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
White \White\, n.
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   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.
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            Finely attired in a of white.         --Shak.
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   2. Something having the color of snow; something white, or
      nearly so; as, the white of the eye.
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   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.
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            'T was I won the wager, though you hit the white.
                                                  --Shak.
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   4. A person with a white skin; a member of the white, or
      Caucasian, races of men.
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   5. A white pigment; as, Venice white.
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   6. (Zool.) 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.
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   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.
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