white ermine

Entom .: Spilosoma ment has tri . ( Stainton .) Arc tia ment has tri. ( Newman .) One of the Chelonide (approximately=Arctiide, q. v.). Fore wings, yellowish white, with four curved, transverse rows of encircling the forehead, cheeks, and ears. white-frost, s. Hoar-frost. white-goby, s. Ichthy.: Latrunculus pellucid us , a very small Goby, common in some localities in Europe. It is distinguished by its transparent body, wide mouth, and single row of teeth. It lives but one year, and is the only known instance of what may be called an "annual" vertebrate. The spawning season is IMG:content-0854.png:[blocks in formation] which the municipal and state governments had shown themselves utterly unable to cope. In late years the organization has been in a state of quiescence, for although on more than one occasion mob violence has temporarily been exerted in the state, the acts done could not be traced to the agency of the league. white-leather, s. [WHITLEATHER, 1.] white-leg, s. Pathol.: Phlegmasia dolens (q. v.). white-legged, a. Having white legs. white-leprosy, s . Pathol.: Leprosy characterized by morbid white. ne of the skin. (2 Kings v. 27; cf. also Exod. iv. 6.) Heb.tsaraath , from tsar a =(1) to prostrate; (2) to affect with leprosy. Probably the tuberculated variety of Elephantiasis græca . It does not exactly correspond to the ancient description, but diseases often somewhat alter their character. It is still characterized at one stage by white spots, and the change to white of the hair of the head and beard, but the whole surface of the skin is not white. There is also a leuco pathic sub-variety of the non- tuberculated leprosy, in which there are white spots or blotches on the skin. [ELEPHANTIASIS, LEPROSY.] white-lie, s. A lie for which some kind of excuse can be made; a false statement made in the interest of peace, reconciliation, harmle sport, or the like; fraud. [Cf. WHITE-CRIME, WHITE-WITCH.] a harmle or non-malicious falsehood; a pious "Sir George has told me a lie-a white - lie he says, but I hate a white - lie ." -Mad . D'Arblay : Diary , iv. 287. IMG:content-0855.png:[blocks in formation] Ornith.: Gygis caudida , from the South Pacific. whence it is also called the Silky Tern. The plumage is pure white and of silky softne , many ways, as by re-uniting the spectral colors themselves, or by revolving rapidly a disc [NEW- TON'S DISC] painted with the colors in separate sec- tors. A similar mixture of pigments fails, partly because the pigments themselves are never pure colors, and partly and chiefly because pigments act In New South Wales, Casuarina lep to clad a . white-nosed monkey, s . [VAULTING-MONKEY.] white-nun, s. The Smew (q. v.). rather as absorbents of the light reflected from the paper or other colors underneath than as additional illuminating colors. White light can, however, be also compounded of three, or of only two colors, which are then called complementary colors. Such white is quite undistinguishable by the eye from white compounded of all the colors; and hence it follows that the eye is not an ultimate appeal in such matters, but is easily deceived by apparently similar total results really compounded of quite different materials. The same applies to colors, judge, but analysis by the prism reveals the differ- ent composition of the light instantly. Bot .: Lilium candidum . [LILIUM, T.] white-lime, s. A solution or preparation of lime used for whitewashing; a variety of whitewash. IMG:content-0856.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0857.png:[blocks in formation] white-point, s. of tropical and sub-tropical seas, and has occasion. Entom.: A European Night-moth, Leucania alb i ally strayed to the British coast. Specimens have puncta . been known to attain a length of thirty feet; ashen- brown above, white below. white-poplar, s. [ABELE, POPULUS.] white-poppy, s. Bot .: Papaver somniferum. [PAPAVER.] white-pot, subst . A kind of dish made of milk, sliced rolls, eggs, sugar, ., baked in a pot or in a bowl placed in a quick oven. "Cornwall squab-pye, and Devon white - pot brings." King: On Cookery. white-potherb, s. Bot.: Valerian ell a olitoria. white-precipitate, s. Chem.: (NH2Hg") Cl. Ammonio-chloride of mercury. Discovered by Raymond Lully in the thir teenth century, and obtained by adding ammonia to a solution of corrosive sublimate (mercuric chloride). It is a heavy white powder, inodorous, but po e ing a metallic taste; insoluble in water, alcohol, and ether, and easily decomposed by heat. It is a violent poison, but is used in pharmacy in the form of an ointment, as a stimulating application in chronic skin diseases, and for the destruc tion of lice. IMG:content-0858.png:[blocks in formation]