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

Corresponding with Lanarius albus, Le Lanier cendrè, &c.

WHITE BONNET, one who, in a sale by auction, bids for his own goods, or who is employed by the owner for this purpose, S.

WHITE FISH IN THE NET, a sport in which two persons hold a plaid pretty high, over which the rest of the company are obliged to leap. The object is to entangle the person who leaps; and if thus intercepted he loses the game, Ang.

WHITE-HORSE, the Fuller ray, a fish.
Sibbald.

WHITIE-WHATIES, s. pl. Silly pretences, from a design to procrastinate, or to blind S.; whittie-whaws, S. B.

A. S. hwata, omina, divinationes, auguria; Belg. wisiewasie, fiddle-faddle; C. B. chwit-chwat, a sly pilferer.

WHITLIE, QUHITELY, adj. Having a delicate or fading look, S.
Henrysone.

A. S. hwit, albus, and lic, similis.

WHITLING, WHITEN, WHITING, s. A species of sea-trout, S.
Stat. Acc.

Sw. hwitling, a whiting.