WHITE MUSTARD
White mustard.
Defn: A kind of mustard (Sinapis alba) with rough-hairy foliage, a long-beaked hispid pod, and pale seeds, which yield mustard and mustard oil. The plant is also grown for forage.
WHITEN
Whit"en, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Whitened; p. pr. & vb. n. Whitening.]
Etym: [OE. whitenen; cf. Icel. hvitna.]
Defn: To grow white; to turn or become white or whiter; as, the hair whitens with age; the sea whitens with foam; the trees in spring whiten with blossoms.
WHITEN
Whit"en, v. t.
Defn: To make white; to bleach; to blanch; to whitewash; as, to whiten a wall; to whiten cloth. The broad stream of the Foyle then whitened by vast flocks of wild swans. Macaulay.
Syn.
— See Blanch.
WHITENER
Whit"en*er, n.
Defn: One who, or that which, whitens; a bleacher; a blancher; a whitewasher.
WHITENESS
White"ness, n. Etym: [AS. hwitness.]