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white

noun: a member of the Caucasoid race

noun: the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)

noun: United States jurist appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1910 by President Taft; noted for his work on antitrust legislation (1845-1921)

noun: Australian writer (1912-1990)

noun: United States political journalist (1915-1986)

noun: United States architect (1853-1906)

noun: United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985)

noun: United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918)

noun: a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri

noun: the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water; "she separated the whites from the yolks of several eggs"

noun: (board games) the lighter pieces

noun: (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth

verb: turn white; "This detergent will whiten your laundry"

adj: being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light; "as white as fresh snow"; "a bride's white dress"

adj: of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration; "voting patterns within the white population"

adj: free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied; "in shining white armor"

adj: marked by the presence of snow; "a white Christmas"; "the white hills of a northern winter"

adj: restricted to whites only; "under segregation there were even white restrooms and white drinking fountains"; "a lily-white movement which would expel Negroes from the organization"

adj: glowing white with heat; "white flames"; "a white-hot center of the fire"

adj: benevolent; without malicious intent; "that's white of you"

adj: (of a surface) not written or printed on; "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins"

adj: (of coffee) having cream or milk added

adj: (of hair) having lost its color; "the white hairs of old age"

adj: anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock"; "lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley; "lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage"

adj: of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets; "white nights"