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/wˈaɪtɪŋ/ /hwˈaɪtɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Whiting n.

(Zool.)

(a)

A common European food fish (Melangus vulgaris) of the Codfish family; called also fittin.

(b)

A North American fish (Merlucius vulgaris) allied to the preceding; called also silver hake.

(c)

Any one of several species of North American marine sciaenoid food fishes belonging to genus Menticirrhus, especially Menticirrhus Americanus, found from Maryland to Brazil, and Menticirrhus littoralis, common from Virginia to Texas; called also silver whiting, and surf whiting. Note: Various other fishes are locally called whiting, as the kingfish (a), the sailor's choice (b), the Pacific tomcod, and certain species of lake whitefishes.

Chalk prepared in an impalpable powder by pulverizing and repeated washing, used as a pigment, as an ingredient in putty, for cleaning silver, etc.

Whiting pollack. (Zool.) Same as Pollack.

Whiting pout (Zool.), the bib, 2.

verb

White v. t. (past & past part. whited; pres. part. whiting) To make white; to whiten; to whitewash; to bleach. "Whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of... uncleanness." "So as no fuller on earth can white them."

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... sold Wells for a nominal price to Dr. Burgess, and he renewed the spoliation, but, fortunately again, the Restoration came; he had to give up his spoils, and died in jail. Thus was the remnant of the ruin saved. It was in this hall that Whiting, the last abbot of Glastonbury, was condemned, and hanged on Tor Hill above his own abbey. The great bishops of Wells were the episcopal Nimrod Ralph, and Beckington, who left his mark so strongly on the cathedral and town. He was a weaver's son, ...

— England, Picturesque and Descriptive - A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel • Joel Cook

... that this was not the goodwife's first experience of Indian captivity. The late Dr. Abiel Abbott, in his manuscript of Judith Whiting's Recollections of the Indian Wars, states that she had previously been a prisoner, probably before her marriage. After her return she lived quietly at the garrison-house until the summer of the next year. One bright moonlit-night a party of Indians ...

— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier

... many leading newspapers. Sallie Joy White was the first regular reporter in Boston. She began on the Boston Post, a Democratic newspaper, in 1870. Her first work was to report the proceedings of a woman suffrage meeting. She is now on the staff of the Boston Daily Advertiser. Lilian Whiting is on the staff of the Traveller, and most of the other Boston newspapers have women among their editors and reporters. Some of the best magazine writing of the time is done by women; one needs but to look over the table of contents of the leading periodicals to see how large a proportion of ...

— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) • Various

... House[1]— the same that old Piers Bottrell afterwards bought and died in: and Lebow himself, though born in the town and a fisherman by calling, never able to get his tongue round good plain English until the day he was drowned on the whiting-grounds and left Kitty ...

— Two Sides of the Face - Midwinter Tales • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... of a ruddie colour, Whiting and dare is of a milk-white hiew; Nature by them perhaps is made the fuller, Little they nowrish, be they old or new: Carp, loach, tench, eeles, though black and bred in mud, Delight the tooth with taste, ...

— The Affectionate Shepherd • Richard Barnfield

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