"Whiting" is a word in ENGLISH
Chalk prepared in an impalpable powder by pulverizing and
repeated washing, used as a pigment, as an ingredient in putty, for
cleaning silver, etc.
A North American fish (Merlucius vulgaris) allied to the
preceding; -- called also silver hake.
A common European food fish (Melangus vulgaris) of the
Codfish family; -- called also fittin.
Any one of several species of North American marine
sciaenoid food fishes belonging to genus Menticirrhus, especially M.
Americanus, found from Maryland to Brazil, and M. littoralis, common
from Virginia to Texas; -- called also silver whiting, and surf
whiting.
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A genus of coniferous trees, properly called Fir, as the balsam fir and the silver fir. The spruces are sometimes …
Read the complete definitionIn old English law. white rent; rent payable in silver or white money, as distinguished from that which was anciently …
Read the complete definitionThe unit of electric current; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, …
Read the complete definitionSulphide of silver; -- also called vitreous silver, or silver glance. It has a metallic luster, a lead-gray color, and …
Read the complete definitionOne of the elements, belonging to the alkaline earth group; a metal having a silver-white color, and melting at a …
Read the complete definitionA tree of several species, constituting the genus Betula; as, the white or common birch (B. alba) (also called silver …
Read the complete definitionA white-metal alloy of tin, antimony, bismuth, copper, etc. It somewhat resembles silver, and is used for table ware. Called …
Read the complete definitionSilver bromide, a rare mineral; -- called also bromargyrite.
Read the complete definitionA method of taking photographic pictures, on paper sensitized with iodide of silver; -- also called Talbotype, from the inventor, …
Read the complete definitionNative silver chloride, a mineral of a white to pale yellow or gray color, darkening on exposure to the light. …
Read the complete definitionA silver coin of about 86 grains, having the figure of an archer, and hence, in modern times, called a …
Read the complete definitionA Roman silver coin of the value of about fourteen cents; the \"penny\" of the New Testament; -- so called …
Read the complete definitionThe chief silver coin among the Romans, worth 8d.; it was the seventh part of a Roman ounce. Also an …
Read the complete definitionAmber; also, the alloy of gold and silver, called electrum.
Read the complete definitionA metallic mineral, a selenide of copper and silver; -- so called by Berzelius on account of its being found …
Read the complete definitionA fresh-water fish of the United States (Semotilus bullaris); -- called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also …
Read the complete definitionThose that purify gold and silver, and part them by fire and water from coarser metals; and therefore, in the …
Read the complete definitionThe sudden brightening of a fused globule of gold or silver, when the last film of the oxide of lead …
Read the complete definitionA rare metallic element, of a silver white color, and low specific gravity (2.1), resembling magnesium. It never occurs naturally …
Read the complete definitionA silver dollar; -- so called in Cuba, Hayti, etc.
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