whistling buoy

A sea buoy having a device attached which produces a whistling sound when agitated by the waves. *whistling-shop, s. A place in which spirits are sold without a license. ( Slang Dict .) "A whistling-shop, sir, is where they sell spirits."_ Dickens: Pickwick , ch. xlv. whistling-swan, s. 4503 IMG:content-0846.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0847.png:[blocks in formation] Entomol.: A popular name for any of the Term i tide (q. v.). The resemblance to the Formi cid, ., is in the general aspect, their life in social communities, the appearance at certain times of many winged individuals, and the nature of the habitations. But they belong to different orders, the venation of the wings being different. A white ant looks not unlike a soft immature earwig, but without the forceps. White ants constitute the most destructive insect pest to be found in the tropics. They do not attack human beings, their ravages being confined to property. They make their way into houses through some minute aperture which they have themselves formed in the floor or in the wall. Up to the moment of emergence they give no indication of their existence, and when they come forth, which they do in you sands, they take every means in their power t to shun observation, while busily engaged in destructive work. Nothing external may reveal the fact that the joists or rafters on which they have been operating are weakened and rendered unsafe by being all pierced internally with their galleries. If they can effect an entrance into a library they bring up mud and construct tunnels with it so as to glue one book to another, and eat away the leather or cloth by which the boards were affixed to the book itself, besides rounding off the angles of a number of the IMG:content-0848.png:[blocks in formation] "How white and red each other did destroy." Shakesp.: Venus and Adonis, 346. 2. Something, or a part of something, having the color of snow; as *(1) The central part in the butt in archery, which was formerly painted white; the center or mark at which a mi ile is aimed; hence, that which is aimed at; a mark. "The immortality of my fame is the white I shoot at." -Mas singer: Emperor of the East, iv. 4. (2) The albumen of an egg; the pellucid, viscous fluid which surrounds the yolk; also the name given sometimes to the corresponding part of a seed, or the farinaceous matter surrounding the embryo. "The yolke of the egge can not be without the whyte , nor the whyte without the yolke."-Berners: Froi art; Chronycle, vol. ii., ch. xlii. (3) That part of the ball of the eye surrounding the iris or colored part. "Turns up th' white o' the eye to his discourse." Shakesp.: Coriolanus, iv. 5. (4) A member of the white race of mankind. 3. Plural: [WHITES.] II. Entom . ( pl .): The sub-family Pieridi. The Black-veined White is Aporia cratægi ; the Green chequered, Pieris daplidice ; the Green-veined, P. nap i ; the Large White, P. bra ica ; the Marble White, Mel an agria gala the a : the Small White, Pieris rape; and the Wood White, Leu cop has i a sinapis . (1) In the white : (See extract.) "It may be here explained that in the white is a cabinet making term for unpolished goods."- Echo , Nov. 30, 1886. (2) White softening of the brain: Pathol .: [SOFTENING.] White-antimonial ore = Valentinite ; White arsenic Arseno lite ; White-copperas= Goslarite or Coquimbite ; White-copper ore = Kyrosite ; White garnet Leucite ; White-iron pyrites= Marcasite ; White-lead ore Ceru ite : White-nickel = Ram Ornith.: Cygnus music us. [HOOPER (2), SWAN, melsbergite ; White-tellurium = Sylvenite ; White I I. 2.] vitriol Goslarite. boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; on a table or frame, the legs of which rest on stone stands, surrounded by water; but sooner or later the native servant forgets to replenish the water, the white ants immediately taking advantage of the neglect, or they attempt to swim. Some perish, while the survivors pa the fo e on the dead bodies of their comrades and are soon at work. Every historical document in India is in danger from these destructive creatures. Profe or Drummond suggests that white ants probably render the same service in the tropics which earthworms do in temperate lands. white-arsenic, s. [ARSENIOUS-OXIDE.] white-ash, s. Bot .: (1) An American tree, Fraxinus american a ; (2) Pyrus aucuparia . ( Britten & Holland .) white-ash herb, s. Bot.: Ægo podium podagra ria. ( Britten & Hol land.) IMG:content-0849.png:[blocks in formation] white-backed coly, s. Ornithology: Colius capensis, from South Africa. Length about fourteen inches; ash-colored, rump and lower back glo ed with red, white line (bordered on each side with a broader black one) from shoulders to rump. white-backed skunk, s. Zoology : Mephitis (or Spilogale ) put or i us , from South America, Mexico, and the southwest of the United States. It is larger than the Common Skunk, from which it is also distinguished by its short white tail.