WHETS LATE

is a ma ive mineral of a greenish-gray colour; feebly glimmering; fracture, slaty or splintery; fragments tabular; translucent on the edges; feels rather greasy; and has a spec. grav. of 2·722. It occurs in beds, in primitive and transition slates. Very fine varieties of whets late are brought from Turkey, called honest ones , which are in much esteem for sharpening steel instruments. WHEY ( Petit lait , Fr.; Molken , Germ.); is the greenish-gray liquor which exudes from the curd of milk. Scheele states, that when a pound of milk is mixed with a spoonful of proof spirit, and allowed to become sour, the whey filtered off, at the end of a month or a little more, is a good vinegar, devoid of lactic acid. WHISKEY; is dilute alcohol, distilled from the fermented worts of malt or grains.