Word Meanings - MORNE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the morn; morning. "White as morne milk." Chaucer.

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• WHITECAP
  The European redstart; -- so called from its white forehead. The whitethroat; -- so called from its gray head. The European tree sparrow. 2. A wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the wind is freshening.
• WHITE-FRONTED
  Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.
• WHITE FLY
  Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.
• WHITESTER
  A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster.
• WHITE-HEART
  A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
• WHITESIDE
  The golden-eye.
• WHITE-EAR
  The wheatear.
• WHITEBLOW
  See WHITLOW
• WHITEWING
  The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing. The velvet duck.
• WHITEWALL
  The spotted flycatcher; -- so called from the white color of the under parts.
• WHITE MUSTARD
  A kind of mustard with rough-hairy foliage, a long-beaked hispid pod, and pale seeds, which yield mustard and mustard oil. The plant is also grown for forage.
• WHITE-WATER
  A dangerous disease of sheep.
• WHITETHROAT
  Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species , called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler , and the lesser whitethroat .
• WHITEBILL
  The American coot.
• WHITE-EYE
  Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops palpebrosus of India, and Z. coerulescens of Australia. The eyes are encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. Called also bush creeper, and
• WHITES
  Leucorrh 2. The finest flour made from white wheat. 3. Cloth or garments of a plain white color.
• WHITENESS
  A flock of swans. (more info) 1. The quality or state of being white; white color, or freedom from darkness or obscurity on the surface. Chaucer. 2. Want of a sanguineous tinge; paleness; as from terror, grief, etc. "The whiteness in thy cheek."
• WHITENING
  1. The act or process of making or becoming white. 2. That which is used to render white; whiting. Whitening stone, a sharpening and polishing stone used by cutlers; also, a finishing grindstone of fine texture.
• WHITEBEAM
  The common beam tree of England ; -- so called from the white, woolly under surface of the leaves.
• WHITEBOY
  1. A favorite. See White, a., 6. "One of God's whiteboys." Bunyan. 2. One of an association of poor Roman catholics which arose in Ireland about 1760, ostensibly to resist the collection of tithes, the members of which were so called from the
• HEPPELWHITE
  Designating a light and elegant style developed in England under George III., chiefly by Messrs. A.Heppelwhite & Co.
• CROMORNA
  A certain reed stop in the organ, of a quality of tone resembling that of the oboe. (more info) G. krummhorn crooked horn, cornet, an organ pipe turned like a
• MORNE
  Of or pertaining to the morn; morning. "White as morne milk." Chaucer.
• SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
  The substance of the medullary sheath.