white witch

A witch or wizard said to exert supernatural powers for good and not for evil purposes. [WITCHCRAFT.] "There is mention of creatures that they call white witches , which do only good turns for their neighbors."Cotton Mather: A Discourse on Witchcraft (ed. 1689), p. 5. white-wizard 8. [WHITE-WITCH.] white-wolf, s. [WOLF.] white-wood, s. Bot.: (1) A term applied to a large number of. trees, as Tilia american a , Liriodendron tulip if era , and the genus Petrobium , spec. Petrobium arbor eum , from St. Helena; (2) The Alburnum (q. v.). White - wood bark : [CANELLA-BARK.] white-worm, s. Entom.: The larva of the Cockchafer (q. v.) *white, *whyte, v. t. & i. [WHITE, a.] A. Transitive : 1. Lit .: To make white; to whiten, to whitewash. "It is to be supposed your pa ion hath sufficiently whited your face."- Ben Jonson: Cynthia's Revels , iii. 3. 2. Fig .: To glo over. " Whit'st over all his vices." Beaum . & Flet.: Bloody Brothers, iv. 1. B. In trans.: To grow or become white; to whiten. white-bait, s. [English white, and bait.] Ichthyology: 1. A small European fish to which specific and, by some authorities, generic distinction has been given; in the first case as Clupea alba , in the second white boy as Rogenia alba , now known to be the fry of the herring ( Clupea harengus ). Whitebait are caught chiefly in the estuary of the Thames, and are not uncommon in the Firth of Forth. The fishery begins in April and lasts till September, bag-nets sunk four or five feet below the water being employed. to The whitebait brought to market are from four inches long, pale ashy-green above, silvery white beneath. They are of exquisite flavor, and Green wich and Black wall are noted for whitebait dinners. Her Majesty's Ministers for some years had a whitebait dinner at Green wich before the prorogation of Parliament in the autumn, but the last official whitebait dinner was in the year 1883, when the members of Mr. Gladstone's ministry dined together at Green wich. 2. A local name for Salanx chinensis , called also Japanese Whitebait. [SALANX.] white-boy, s . [Etym. in sense 1., doubtful; in sense 2. see extract.] *1. An old term of endearment applied to a favorite son, dependant, or the like; a darling. "One of God's white boys ." -Bunyan. (Ann andale.) 2. A member of a secret agrarian a ociation organized in Ireland about 1759 or 1760. It was composed of starving laborers, evicted tenants, and others in a like situation, who a embled at night to destroy the property of harsh landlords, or their agents, the Protestant clergy, tax or tithe collectors, and others who had made themselves obnoxious in the locality. In inany cases they even went to the extreme of murder. "The White boys so styled themselves because during their nocturnal excursions they covered their usual attire with white shirts. This disguise was used principally to enable them while scouring through the darkne to recognize each other. The White boys made war ostensibly against the exaction of tithes."- Banim . ( Ann andale .) Walpole ( Letters , iii. 250) applies the term to London rioters.