White-livered. Pale and unhealthy-looking (S.).—N. & S.W. At Clyffe Pypard the word has a yet stronger idea of disease about it, and a 'white-livered' woman is popularly supposed to be almost as dangerous as was the poison-nurtured Indian beauty who was sent as a present to Alexander the Great. How the 'whiteness' of the liver is to be detected is not very clear, but probably it is by the pallor of the face. At any rate, if you discover that a young woman is 'white-livered,' do not on any account marry her, because the whiteness of the liver is of a poisonous nature, and you assuredly will not live long with a white-livered young woman for your wife. It is most unhealthy, and if she does not die, you will! The word is so used of both sexes.
White Robin Hood. Silene inflata, L., Bladder Campion.—S.W. (Zeals.)
White-wood. Viburnum Lantana, L., Mealy Guelder-rose.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) White-weed.—S.W. (Farley).
*Whitty-tree. Viburnum Lantana, L. (Aubrey, Nat. Hist. Wilts, p. 56, ed. Brit.)
Whiver. (1) To quiver, hover, flutter. Wiver (S.).—S.W. (2) To waver, hesitate.—S.W.
*Who'say, Hoosay. An idle report.—N.W. (Malmesbury.)
Wicker. See Whicker.
Wig-wants. See Wag-wants.
Wild Asparagus. Ornithogalum pyrenaicum, L., Spiked Star of Bethlehem.—S.W. (Som. bord.)
Wildern (i short). An apple-tree run wild in the hedges, as opposed to a true crab-tree.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)