Word Meanings - WHITENING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• 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.
• GRINDSTONE
  A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed,
• WHITESTER
  A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster.
• WHITE-HEART
  A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
• STONEBRASH
  A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
• WHITING
  A common European food fish of the Codfish family; -- called also fittin. A North American fish allied to the preceding; -- called also silver hake. Any one of several species of North American marine sciænoid food fishes belonging to genus
• WHITESIDE
  The golden-eye.
• WHITE-EAR
  The wheatear.
• MAKING-IRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• FINISHER
  1. One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection. O prophet of glad tidings,
• WHITEBLOW
  See WHITLOW
• STONEROOT
  A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• WHITLING
  A young full trout during its second season.
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• FINISH
  1. To come to an end; to terminate. His days may finish ere that hapless time. Shak. 2. To end; to die. Shak.
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• CAPSTONE
  A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.
• CLINKSTONE
  An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• MOORSTONE
  A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
• RUBSTONE
  A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.
• GRINDLE STONE
  A grindstone.
• HEPPELWHITE
  Designating a light and elegant style developed in England under George III., chiefly by Messrs. A.Heppelwhite & Co.
• BOOTMAKER
  One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.