2. To make white; to give a fair external appearance to; to clear from
imputations or disgrace; hence, to clear (a bankrupt) from obligation
to pay debts.
White"wash`er (?), n. One who whitewashes.
White"-wa`ter (?), n. (Far.) A dangerous disease of sheep.
White"weed` (?), n. (Bot.) A perennial composite herb (Chrysanthemum
Leucanthemum) with conspicuous white rays and a yellow disk, a common
weed in grass lands and pastures; — called also oxeye daisy.
White"wing` (?), n. (Zoöl.) (a) The chaffinch; — so called from the
white bands on the wing. (b) The velvet duck.
White"wood` (?), n. The soft and easily- worked wood of the tulip tree
(Liriodendron). It is much used in cabinetwork, carriage building, etc.
Several other kinds of light-colored wood are called whitewood in
various countries, as the wood of Bignonia leucoxylon in the West
Indies, of Pittosporum bicolor in Tasmania, etc.
Whitewood bark. See the Note under Canella.
White"wort` (?), n. (Bot.) (a) Wild camomile. (b) A kind of Solomon's
seal (Polygonum officinale).
Whit"flaw` (?), n. [See Whitlow.] Whitlow. [Obs.] "The nails fallen off
by whitflaws." Herrick.
Whith"er (?), adv. [OE. whider. AS. hwider; akin to E. where, who; cf.
Goth. hvadr whither. See Who, and cf. Hither, Thither.]
1. To what place; — used interrogatively; as, whither goest thou?
"Whider may I flee?" Chaucer.
Sir Valentine, whither away so fast?
Shak.