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Word Meanings - WITHERITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Barium carbonate occurring in white or gray six-sided twin crystals, and also in columnar or granular masses.

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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.
  • SIDEBOARD
    A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service. At a stately sideboard, by the wine, That fragrant smell diffused. Milton.
  • SIDESADDLE
    A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.
  • SIDE
    1. To lean on one side. Bacon. 2. To embrace the opinions of one party, or engage in its interest, in opposition to another party; to take sides; as, to side with the ministerial party. All side in parties, and begin the attack. Pope.
  • BARIUM
    One of the elements, belonging to the alkaline earth group; a metal having a silver-white color, and melting at a very high temperature. It is difficult to obtain the pure metal, from the facility with which it becomes oxidized in the air. Atomic
  • WHITESIDE
    The golden-eye.
  • WHITE-EAR
    The wheatear.
  • WHITEBLOW
    See WHITLOW
  • SIDEWALK
    A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement.
  • 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.
  • SIDE-SLIP
    See BELOW
  • GRANULARY
    Granular.
  • 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 .
  • CROWN SIDE
    See OFFICE
  • WAYSIDE
    The side of the way; the edge or border of a road or path.
  • DISSIDENT
    No agreeing; dissenting; discordant; different. Our life and manners be dissident from theirs. Robynson (More's Utopia). (more info) sit apart, to disagree; dis- + sedere to sit: cf. F. dissident. See
  • HILLSIDE
    The side or declivity of a hill.
  • ASIDE
    1. On, or to, one side; out of a straight line, course, or direction; at a little distance from the rest; out of the way; apart. Thou shalt set aside that which is full. 2 Kings iv. 4. But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king. Shak.
  • HEPPELWHITE
    Designating a light and elegant style developed in England under George III., chiefly by Messrs. A.Heppelwhite & Co.
  • TWO-SIDED
    Symmetrical. (more info) 1. Having two sides only; hence, double-faced; hypocritical.
  • CONSIDERINGLY
    With consideration or deliberation.
  • INSIDIOUS
    insidere to sit in; pref. in- + sedere to sit: cf. F. insidieux. See 1. Lying in wait; watching an opportunity to insnare or entrap; deceitful; sly; treacherous; -- said of persons; as, the insidious foe. "The insidious witch." Cowper. 2. Intended
  • UNCONSIDERED
    Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak.

 

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