Whit (?), n. [OE. wight, wiht, AS. wiht a creature, a thing. See Wight,
and cf. Aught, Naught.] The smallest part or particle imaginable; a
bit; a jot; an iota; — generally used in an adverbial phrase in a
negative sentence. "Samuel told him every whit." 1 Sam. iii. 18. "Every
whit as great." South.
So shall I no whit be behind in duty.
Shak.
It does not me a whit displease.
Cowley.
White (?), a. [Compar. Whiter (?); superl. Whitest.] [OE. whit, AS.
hw&?;t; akin to OFries. and OS. hwt, D. wit, G. weiss, OHG. wz, hwz,
Icel. hvtr, Sw. hvit, Dan. hvid, Goth. hweits, Lith. szveisti, to make
bright, Russ. sviet' light, Skr. &?;v&?;ta white, &?;vit to be bright.
&?;&?;&?;. Cf. Wheat, Whitsunday.]
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.
White as the whitest lily on a stream.
Longfellow.
2. Destitute of color, as in the cheeks, or of the tinge of blood
color; pale; pallid; as, white with fear.