white headed (hwithed"ed)

Having the head more or le entirely white: specifying many animals. - White-headed duck, Erismatura 3 leucocephala, a rudder-tailed or stiff-tailed duck of Europe and Africa.- White-headed eagle, the common bald eagle or sea-eagle of North America, Haliaetus leucocepha lus. See eagle. - White-headed goose, gull, shrike. See the nouns. - White-headed harpy. See harpy, (b).-White-headed tern, Sterna trudeaui, a South American species of tern.-White-headed titmouse, a variety of the long-tailed titmouse, Acredula caudata (or rose a ), whose head is whiter than usual. It inhabits northerly continental Europe. White-headed woodpecker, Picus or Xenopicus albolarvatus, a woodpecker with a black body, white head, scarlet nuchal band in the male, and white wing-patch, found in the forests, chiefly of conifers, of the Pacific slope of the United States. See cut under Xenopicus. Whitehead's operations. See operation. white-horse (hwit' hôrs), n. 1. An extremely tough and sinewy substance resembling blubber, but destitute of oil, which lies between the upper jaw and the junk of a sperm-whale. C. M. Scammon, Marine Mammals, p. 312.-2. (d)enitale, beluga ste A West Indian rubiaceous shrub, Portland i a fish-mullet. See mullet1. whiteflawt (hwit'fla), n. [A var. of whickflaw, simulating white1.] A whitlow. A cock is offered (at least was wont to be) to St. Christopher in Touraine for a certaine sore, which useth to be in the end of men's fingers, the white -flaw. World of Wonders, p. 308. (Quoted in N. and Q., 7th ser., (Χ. 511.) Herrick, Oberon's Palace. The nails faln off by Whit -flawes.