Liza 音标拼音: [l'izə]
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liza n 1 :
similar to the striped mullet and takes its place in the Caribbean region [
synonym : {
liza }, {
Mugil liza }]
Liza \
Li "
za \,
n . (
Zool .)
The American white mullet ({
Mugil curema }).
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White \
White \ (
hw [
imac ]
t ),
a . [
Compar . {
Whiter }
(
hw [
imac ]
t "[~
e ]
r );
superl . {
Whitest }.] [
OE .
whit ,
AS .
hw [
imac ]
t ;
akin to OFries .
and OS .
hw [
imac ]
t ,
D .
wit ,
G .
weiss ,
OHG .
w [
imac ]
z ,
hw [
imac ]
z ,
Icel .
hv [
imac ]
tr ,
Sw .
hvit ,
Dan .
hvid ,
Goth .
hweits ,
Lith .
szveisti ,
to make bright ,
Russ .
sviet '
light ,
Skr . [,
c ]
v [=
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ta white , [,
c ]
vit to be bright . [
root ]
42 .
Cf . {
Wheat }, {
Whitsunday }.]
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1 .
Reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum combined ;
not tinted with any of the proper colors or their mixtures ;
having the color of pure snow ;
snowy ; --
the opposite of {
black }
or {
dark };
as ,
white paper ;
a white skin . "
Pearls white ." --
Chaucer .
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White as the whitest lily on a stream . --
Longfellow .
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2 .
Destitute of color ,
as in the cheeks ,
or of the tinge of blood color ;
pale ;
pallid ;
as ,
white with fear .
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Or whispering with white lips , "
The foe !
They come !
they come !" --
Byron .
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3 .
Having the color of purity ;
free from spot or blemish ,
or from guilt or pollution ;
innocent ;
pure .
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White as thy fame ,
and as thy honor clear . --
Dryden .
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No whiter page than Addison '
s remains . --
Pope .
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4 .
Gray ,
as from age ;
having silvery hair ;
hoary .
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Your high engendered battles '
gainst a head So old and white as this . --
Shak .
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5 .
Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs ,
and the like ;
fortunate ;
happy ;
favorable .
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On the whole ,
however ,
the dominie reckoned this as one of the white days of his life . --
Sir W .
Scott .
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6 .
Regarded with especial favor ;
favorite ;
darling .
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Come forth ,
my white spouse . --
Chaucer .
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I am his white boy ,
and will not be gullet . --
Ford .
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Note :
White is used in many self -
explaining compounds ,
as white -
backed ,
white -
bearded ,
white -
footed .
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{
White alder }. (
Bot .)
See {
Sweet pepper bush },
under {
Pepper }.
{
White ant } (
Zool .),
any one of numerous species of social pseudoneuropterous insects of the genus {
Termes }.
These insects are very abundant in tropical countries ,
and form large and complex communities consisting of numerous asexual workers of one or more kinds ,
of large -
headed asexual individuals called soldiers ,
of one or more queens (
or fertile females )
often having the body enormously distended by the eggs ,
and ,
at certain seasons of numerous winged males ,
together with the larvae and pupae of each kind in various stages of development .
Many of the species construct large and complicated nests ,
sometimes in the form of domelike structures rising several feet above the ground and connected with extensive subterranean galleries and chambers .
In their social habits they closely resemble the true ants .
They feed upon animal and vegetable substances of various kinds ,
including timber ,
and are often very destructive to buildings and furniture .
{
White arsenic } (
Chem .),
arsenious oxide , {
As2O3 },
a substance of a white color ,
and vitreous adamantine luster ,
having an astringent ,
sweetish taste .
It is a deadly poison .
{
White bass } (
Zool .),
a fresh -
water North American bass ({
Roccus chrysops })
found in the Great Likes .
{
White bear } (
Zool .),
the polar bear .
See under {
Polar }.
{
White blood cell }. (
Physiol .)
See {
Leucocyte }.
{
White brand } (
Zool .),
the snow goose .
{
White brass },
a white alloy of copper ;
white copper .
{
White campion }. (
Bot .)
(
a )
A kind of catchfly ({
Silene stellata })
with white flowers .
(
b )
A white -
flowered Lychnis ({
Lychnis vespertina }).
{
White canon } (
R .
C .
Ch .),
a Premonstratensian .
{
White caps },
the members of a secret organization in various of the United States ,
who attempt to drive away or reform obnoxious persons by lynch -
law methods .
They appear masked in white .
Their actions resembled those of the Ku Klux Klan in some ways but they were not formally affiliated with the Klan ,
and their victims were often not black .
{
White cedar } (
Bot .),
an evergreen tree of North America ({
Thuja occidentalis }),
also the related {
Cupressus thyoides },
or {
Chamaecyparis sphaeroidea },
a slender evergreen conifer which grows in the so -
called cedar swamps of the Northern and Atlantic States .
Both are much valued for their durable timber .
In California the name is given to the {
Libocedrus decurrens },
the timber of which is also useful ,
though often subject to dry rot .
--
Goodale .
The white cedar of Demerara ,
Guiana ,
etc .,
is a lofty tree ({
Icica altissima }
syn . {
Bursera altissima })
whose fragrant wood is used for canoes and cabinetwork ,
as it is not attacked by insect .
{
White cell }. (
Physiol .)
See {
Leucocyte }.
{
White cell -
blood } (
Med .),
leucocythaemia .
{
White clover } (
Bot .),
a species of small perennial clover bearing white flowers .
It furnishes excellent food for cattle and horses ,
as well as for the honeybee .
See also under {
Clover }.
{
White copper },
a whitish alloy of copper .
See {
German silver },
under {
German }.
{
White copperas } (
Min .),
a native hydrous sulphate of iron ;
coquimbite .
{
White coral } (
Zool .),
an ornamental branched coral ({
Amphihelia oculata })
native of the Mediterranean .
{
White corpuscle }. (
Physiol .)
See {
Leucocyte }.
{
White cricket } (
Zool .),
the tree cricket .
{
White crop },
a crop of grain which loses its green color ,
or becomes white ,
in ripening ,
as wheat ,
rye ,
barley ,
and oats ,
as distinguished from a green crop ,
or a root crop .
{
White currant } (
Bot .),
a variety of the common red currant ,
having white berries .
{
White daisy } (
Bot .),
the oxeye daisy .
See under {
Daisy }.
{
White damp },
a kind of poisonous gas encountered in coal mines . --
Raymond .
{
White elephant } (
Zool .),
(
a )
a whitish ,
or albino ,
variety of the Asiatic elephant .
(
b )
see {
white elephant }
in the vocabulary .
{
White elm } (
Bot .),
a majestic tree of North America ({
Ulmus Americana }),
the timber of which is much used for hubs of wheels ,
and for other purposes .
{
White ensign }.
See {
Saint George '
s ensign },
under {
Saint }.
{
White feather },
a mark or symbol of cowardice .
See {
To show the white feather },
under {
Feather },
n .
{
White fir } (
Bot .),
a name given to several coniferous trees of the Pacific States ,
as {
Abies grandis },
and {
Abies concolor }.
{
White flesher } (
Zool .),
the ruffed grouse .
See under {
Ruffed }. [
Canada ]
{
White frost }.
See {
Hoarfrost }.
{
White game } (
Zool .),
the white ptarmigan .
{
White garnet } (
Min .),
leucite .
{
White grass } (
Bot .),
an American grass ({
Leersia Virginica })
with greenish -
white paleae .
{
White grouse }. (
Zool .)
(
a )
The white ptarmigan .
(
b )
The prairie chicken . [
Local ,
U .
S .]
{
White grub } (
Zool .),
the larva of the June bug and other allied species .
These grubs eat the roots of grasses and other plants ,
and often do much damage .
{
White hake } (
Zool .),
the squirrel hake .
See under {
Squirrel }.
{
White hawk },
or {
White kite } (
Zool .),
the hen harrier .
{
White heat },
the temperature at which bodies become incandescent ,
and appear white from the bright light which they emit .
{
White hellebore } (
Bot .),
a plant of the genus {
Veratrum }
({
Veratrum album })
See {
Hellebore },
2 .
{
White herring },
a fresh ,
or unsmoked ,
herring ,
as distinguished from a red ,
or cured ,
herring . [
R .] --
Shak .
{
White hoolet } (
Zool .),
the barn owl . [
Prov .
Eng .]
{
White horses } (
Naut .),
white -
topped waves ;
whitecaps .
{
The White House }.
See under {
House }.
{
White ibis } (
Zool .),
an American ibis ({
Guara alba })
having the plumage pure white ,
except the tips of the wings ,
which are black .
It inhabits tropical America and the Southern United States .
Called also {
Spanish curlew }.
{
White iron }.
(
a )
Thin sheets of iron coated with tin ;
tinned iron .
(
b )
A hard ,
silvery -
white cast iron containing a large proportion of combined carbon .
{
White iron pyrites } (
Min .),
marcasite .
{
White land },
a tough clayey soil ,
of a whitish hue when dry ,
but blackish after rain . [
Eng .]
{
White lark } (
Zool .),
the snow bunting .
{
White lead }.
(
a )
A carbonate of lead much used in painting ,
and for other purposes ;
ceruse .
(
b ) (
Min .)
Native lead carbonate ;
cerusite .
{
White leather },
buff leather ;
leather tanned with alum and salt .
{
White leg } (
Med .),
milk leg .
See under {
Milk }.
{
White lettuce } (
Bot .),
rattlesnake root .
See under {
Rattlesnake }.
{
White lie }.
See under {
Lie }.
{
White light }.
(
a ) (
Physics )
Light having the different colors in the same proportion as in the light coming directly from the sun ,
without having been decomposed ,
as by passing through a prism .
See the Note under {
Color },
n .,
1 .
(
b )
A kind of firework which gives a brilliant white illumination for signals ,
etc .
{
White lime },
a solution or preparation of lime for whitewashing ;
whitewash .
{
White line } (
Print .),
a void space of the breadth of a line ,
on a printed page ;
a blank line .
{
White meat }.
(
a )
Any light -
colored flesh ,
especially of poultry .
(
b )
Food made from milk or eggs ,
as butter ,
cheese ,
etc .
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Driving their cattle continually with them ,
and feeding only upon their milk and white meats .
--
Spenser .
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{
White merganser } (
Zool .),
the smew .
{
White metal }.
(
a )
Any one of several white alloys ,
as pewter ,
britannia ,
etc .
(
b ) (
Metal .)
A fine grade of copper sulphide obtained at a certain stage in copper smelting .
{
White miller }. (
Zool .)
(
a )
The common clothes moth .
(
b )
A common American bombycid moth ({
Spilosoma Virginica })
which is pure white with a few small black spots ; --
called also {
ermine moth },
and {
virgin moth }.
See {
Woolly bear },
under {
Woolly }.
{
White money },
silver money .
{
White mouse } (
Zool .),
the albino variety of the common mouse .
{
White mullet } (
Zool .),
a silvery mullet ({
Mugil curema })
ranging from the coast of the United States to Brazil ; --
called also {
blue -
back mullet },
and {
liza }.
{
White nun } (
Zool .),
the smew ; --
so called from the white crest and the band of black feathers on the back of its head ,
which give the appearance of a hood .
{
White oak }. (
Bot .)
See under {
Oak }.
{
White owl }. (
Zool .)
(
a )
The snowy owl .
(
b )
The barn owl .
{
White partridge } (
Zool .),
the white ptarmigan .
{
White perch }. (
Zool .)
(
a )
A North American fresh -
water bass ({
Morone Americana })
valued as a food fish .
(
b )
The croaker ,
or fresh -
water drum .
(
c )
Any California surf fish .
{
White pine }. (
Bot .)
See the Note under {
Pine }.
{
White poplar } (
Bot .),
a European tree ({
Populus alba })
often cultivated as a shade tree in America ;
abele .
{
White poppy } (
Bot .),
the opium -
yielding poppy .
See {
Poppy }.
{
White powder },
a kind of gunpowder formerly believed to exist ,
and to have the power of exploding without noise .
[
Obs .]
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A pistol charged with white powder . --
Beau . &
Fl .
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{
White precipitate }. (
Old Chem .)
See under {
Precipitate }.
{
White rabbit }. (
Zool .)
(
a )
The American northern hare in its winter pelage .
(
b )
An albino rabbit .
{
White rent },
(
a ) (
Eng .
Law )
Formerly ,
rent payable in silver ; --
opposed to black rent .
See {
Blackmail },
n .,
3 .
(
b )
A rent ,
or duty ,
of eight pence ,
payable yearly by every tinner in Devon and Cornwall to the Duke of Cornwall ,
as lord of the soil . [
Prov .
Eng .]
{
White rhinoceros }. (
Zool .)
(
a )
The one -
horned ,
or Indian ,
rhinoceros ({
Rhinoceros Indicus }).
See {
Rhinoceros }.
(
b )
The umhofo .
{
White ribbon },
the distinctive badge of certain organizations for the promotion of temperance or of moral purity ;
as ,
the White -
ribbon Army .
{
White rope } (
Naut .),
untarred hemp rope .
{
White rot }. (
Bot .)
(
a )
Either of several plants ,
as marsh pennywort and butterwort ,
which were thought to produce the disease called rot in sheep .
(
b )
A disease of grapes .
See {
White rot },
under {
Rot }.
{
White sage } (
Bot .),
a white ,
woolly undershrub ({
Eurotia lanata })
of Western North America ; --
called also {
winter fat }.
{
White salmon } (
Zool .),
the silver salmon .
{
White salt },
salt dried and calcined ;
decrepitated salt .
{
White scale } (
Zool .),
a scale insect ({
Aspidiotus Nerii })
injurious to the orange tree .
See {
Orange scale },
under {
Orange }.
{
White shark } (
Zool .),
a species of man -
eating shark .
See under {
Shark }.
{
White softening }. (
Med .)
See {
Softening of the brain },
under {
Softening }.
{
White spruce }. (
Bot .)
See {
Spruce },
n .,
1 .
{
White squall } (
Naut .),
a sudden gust of wind ,
or furious blow ,
which comes up without being marked in its approach otherwise than by whitecaps ,
or white ,
broken water ,
on the surface of the sea .
{
White staff },
the badge of the lord high treasurer of England . --
Macaulay .
{
White stork } (
Zool .),
the common European stork .
{
White sturgeon }. (
Zool .)
See {
Shovelnose }
(
d ) .
{
White sucker }. (
Zool .)
(
a )
The common sucker .
(
b )
The common red horse ({
Moxostoma macrolepidotum }).
{
White swelling } (
Med .),
a chronic swelling of the knee ,
produced by a strumous inflammation of the synovial membranes of the kneejoint and of the cancellar texture of the end of the bone forming the kneejoint ; --
applied also to a lingering chronic swelling of almost any kind .
{
White tombac }.
See {
Tombac }.
{
White trout } (
Zool .),
the white weakfish ,
or silver squeteague ({
Cynoscion nothus }),
of the Southern United States .
{
White vitriol } (
Chem .),
hydrous sulphate of zinc .
See {
White vitriol },
under {
Vitriol }.
{
White wagtail } (
Zool .),
the common ,
or pied ,
wagtail .
{
White wax },
beeswax rendered white by bleaching .
{
White whale } (
Zool .),
the beluga .
{
White widgeon } (
Zool .),
the smew .
{
White wine }.
any wine of a clear ,
transparent color ,
bordering on white ,
as Madeira ,
sherry ,
Lisbon ,
etc .; --
distinguished from wines of a deep red color ,
as port and Burgundy . "
White wine of Lepe ." --
Chaucer .
{
White witch },
a witch or wizard whose supernatural powers are supposed to be exercised for good and beneficent purposes . --
Addison . --
Cotton Mather .
{
White wolf }. (
Zool .)
(
a )
A light -
colored wolf ({
Canis laniger })
native of Thibet ; --
called also {
chanco }, {
golden wolf },
and {
Thibetan wolf }.
(
b )
The albino variety of the gray wolf .
{
White wren } (
Zool .),
the willow warbler ; --
so called from the color of the under parts .
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