An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

White used metaph. like fair, specious.

QUHITE MONEY, silver.
Acts Ja. V.

Su. G. hwita penningar, silver money.

QUHITHER, s. A slight illness.
V. [Quhidder].

QUHYTYSS, s. pl.
Barbour.

O. Fr. heutte, a hat worn by military men; L. B. huveti, vestis species, viewed as a sort of mantle.

QUHITRED, QUHITTRET, s. The weasel, S.; whitrack, Moray.
Sibbald.

Isl. hwatur, Su. G. hwat, quick, fleet; C. B. chwidrad, unsteady motion; chwid-rawg, full of giddiness.

QUHITSTANE, s. A whetstone.
Doug.

Teut. wet-sten, cos.