Word Meanings - WHITEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To grow white; to turn or become white or whiter; as, the hair whitens with age; the sea whitens with foam; the trees in spring whiten with blossoms. (more info) Etym:

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WHITEN)

• Blanch
• Bleach
• whiten

Related words: (words related to WHITEN)

• BLEACH
  To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten. The destruction of the coloring matters attached to the bodies to be bleached is effected either by the action of the air and light, of chlorine, or of sulphurous
• BLEACHED
  Whitened; make white. Let their bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching stain, Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe. Byron.
• BLANCH HOLDING
  A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent or otherwise.
• 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.
• WHITEN
  To grow white; to turn or become white or whiter; as, the hair whitens with age; the sea whitens with foam; the trees in spring whiten with blossoms. (more info) Etym:
• BLANCHIMETER
  An instrument for measuring the bleaching power of chloride of lime and potash; a chlorometer. Ure.
• BLEACHER
  One who whitens, or whose occupation is to whiten, by bleaching.
• BLANCHARD LATHE
  A kind of wood-turning lathe for making noncircular and irregular forms, as felloes, gun stocks, lasts, spokes, etc., after a given pattern. The pattern and work rotate on parallel spindles in the same direction with the same speed, and the work
• BLANCH
  To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together. To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds. To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging
• WHITENER
  One who, or that which, whitens; a bleacher; a blancher; a whitewasher.
• BLEACHING
  The act or process of whitening, by removing color or stains; esp. the process of whitening fabrics by chemical agents. Ure. Bleaching powder, a powder for bleaching, consisting of chloride of lime, or some other chemical or chemicals.
• BLEACHERY
  A place or an establishment where bleaching is done.
• BLANCHER
  One who, or that which, blanches or whitens; esp., one who anneals and cleanses money; also, a chemical preparation for this purpose.
• EMBLANCH
  To whiten. See Blanch. Heylin.
• POMME BLANCHE
  The prairie turnip. See under Prairie.
• CARTE BLANCHE
  A blank paper, with a person's signature, etc., at the bottom, given to another person, with permission to superscribe what conditions he pleases. Hence: Unconditional terms; unlimited authority.