whitewing (hwit wing)

1. The white winged or velvet scoter, sea-coot, or surf-duck, Edemia fusc a deglandi: so called along the At whitewing IMG:content-2338.jpg:[graphic] lantic coast of the United States. Various plumages of the bird are distinguished by gunners as black, gray, May, great May, and eastern whitewing; and it has many other local names. See cut under velvet. 2. The chaffinch, Fringilla cælebs: so called from the white bands on the wing. whitewing doves, white-winged (hwit'wingd), a. Having the wings white, wholly or in part: specifying various birds.-White-winged blackbird, the lark-bunting, Calamospiza bicolor, the male of which is black with a conspicuous white wing-patch. See cut, unde wha law in ged cro bill, Loxia leu copter a, a North American mospiza.-White-winged 3.- White species, the male of which is carmine-red with two white wing-bars on each wing. -White-winged dove, Melopelia leu copter a, a pigeon found in southwestern parts of the United States, with a broad oblique white wing-bar. See cut under Melopelia. -White-winged gull, lark, sandpiper. See the nouns. - White-winged scoter. Same as whitewing, 1. -White-winged snowbird, variety of the common black snowbird, Junco hiemal is aikeni, with white wingbars, found in the mountains of Colorado. Compare cut under snowbird. - White-winged surf-duck, the velvet scoter. See whitewing, 1, and cut under velvet. IMG:content-2339.png:[blocks in formation] Mat. viii. 19. IMG:content-2340.png:[blocks in formation] whiting1 (hwi'ting), n. [ whytynge ; ver- baln. of white1 , v .] Chalk which has been dried either in the air or in a kiln, and afterward ground, levigated, and again dried. In trade it whitewood (hwit'wud), n . A name of a large number of trees or of their white or whitish timber. The whitewoods of North America are the ordinary commercial whiting, then Spanish white, tulip-tree, Liriodendron Tulip if era, and the ba wood, Ti. lia American a; also, in Florida, the Guiana plum, Dry petes crocea, and the wild cinnamon, Canella alba (see Canella1, and whitewood bark, below). In the West Indies Tabebuia Leucoxylon, the whitewood cedar, and T. pent a phylla, both formerly cla ed under Tecoma, are so named, together with Ocotea Leucoxylon and the white sweet wood, Nectandra An till i an a ( N. leucantha of Grisebach). The cheesewood, Pittosporum bicolor, of Victoria and Tasmania, and Lagunaria Paters on i, a small soft-wooded malvaceous tree, found in Queensland and Norfolk Island, are so named; and a large handsome tree, Panax elegans, of eastern Australia, is the mowbulan whitewood. Locally, in England, the linden, Tilia Europæa, and the wayfaring tree, Viburnum Lantana, and in Cheshire all timber but oak, are called whitewood. ( Britten and Holland.)-White alba. wood bark, the white cinnamon, the bark of Canella white worm (hwit'werm), n. Same as white grub. An old name of the