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Wax :: Wax (n.) A fatty, solid substance, produced by bees, and employed by them in the construction of their comb; -- usually called beeswax. It is first excreted, from a row of pouches along their sides, in the form of scales, which, being masticated and mixed with saliva, become whitened and tenacious. Its natural color is pale or dull yellow..

Abstraction :: Abstraction (a.) The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects..

Emblanch :: Emblanch (v. t.) To whiten. See Blanch.

Dealbate :: Dealbate (v. t.) To whiten.

Whitester :: Whitester (n.) A bleacher of linen; a whitener; a whitster.

Besnow :: Besnow (v. t.) To cover with snow; to whiten with snow, or as with snow..

Pipeclay :: Pipeclay (v. t.) To whiten or clean with pipe clay, as a soldier's accouterments..

Candor :: Candor (n.) Whiteness; brightness; (as applied to moral conditions) usullied purity; innocence.

Gray :: Gray (superl.) White mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, the soft gray eye of a dove..

White :: White (n.) The color of pure snow; one of the natural colors of bodies, yet not strictly a color, but a composition of all colors; the opposite of black; whiteness. See the Note under Color, n., 1..

Whitened :: Whitened (imp. & p. p.) of White.

White-hot :: White-hot (a.) White with heat; heated to whiteness, or incandescence..

Leucous :: Leucous (a.) White; -- applied to albinos, from the whiteness of their skin and hair..

Predicate :: Predicate (v. t.) To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow..

Whitewash :: Whitewash (v. t.) To apply a white liquid composition to; to whiten with whitewash.

Blanch :: Blanch (a.) To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices..

Accident :: Accident (n.) A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute..

Etiolate :: Etiolate (v. t.) To blanch; to bleach; to whiten by depriving of the sun's rays.

Whiteness :: Whiteness (n.) The quality or state of being white; white color, or freedom from darkness or obscurity on the surface..

Whitewash :: Whitewash (n.) Any wash or liquid composition for whitening something, as a wash for making the skin fair..

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