Note: Various other fishes are locally called whiting, as the kingfish (a), the sailor's choice (b), the Pacific tomcod, and certain species of lake whitefishes.
2. Chalk prepared in an impalpable powder by pulverizing and repeated washing, used as a pigment, as an ingredient in putty, for cleaning silver, etc. Whiting pollack. (Zoöl.) Same as Pollack. — Whiting pout (Zoöl.), the bib, 2.
WHITING-MOP
Whit"ing-mop`, n. [Obs.]
1. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A young whiting. [Prov. Eng.]
2. A fair lass. "This pretty whiting-mop." Massinger.
WHITISH
Whit"ish, a. Etym: [From White.]
1. Somewhat white; approaching white; white in a moderate degree.
2. (Bot.)
Defn: Covered with an opaque white powder.