WHITEWING White"wing`, n. (Zoöl.) (a) The chaffinch; — so called from the white bands on the wing. (b) The velvet duck.
WHITEWOOD
White"wood`, n.
Defn: The soft and easily-worked wood of the tulip tree (Liriodendron). It is much used in cabinetwork, carriage building, etc.
Note: 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.
WHITEWORT White"wort`, n. (Bot.) (a) Wild camomile. (b) A kind of Solomon's seal (Polygonum officinale).
WHITFLAW
Whit"flaw`, n. Etym: [See Whitlow.]
Defn: Whitlow. [Obs.] "The nails fallen off by whitflaws." Herrick.
WHITHER Whith"er, adv. Etym: [OE. whider. AS. hwider; akin to E. where, who; cf. Goth. hvadre 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.
2. To what or which place; — used relatively. That no man should know . . . whither that he went. Chaucer. We came unto the land whither thou sentest us. Num. xiii. 27.