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Whited. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Whited ppl. a. Now rare or arch.

1   I.  [f. WHITE v.1 + -ED1.]

2   1.  Covered or coated with white; spec. (a) plastered over with white, whitewashed, as a wall, building, etc.; now chiefly in the biblical phr. whited sepulchre (Matt. xxiii. 27) used allusively; † (b) of metal, tinned or silvered; also occas. gen., e.g., of land covered with snow.

3 1340.  Ayenb., 228. Huo þet is yhol of bodie and uoul ine herte is ase þe berieles yhuited.

4 1388.  Wyclif, Acts xxiii. 3. Thanne Poul seide to hym, Thou whitid wal, God smyte thee.

5 1552.  Huloet, Whyghted or paynted with white leade, cerustatus.

6 1645.  Milton, Hor. Ep., I. xvi. 40, in Tetrach., 39. But his owne house, and the whole neighbourhood Sees his foule inside through his whited skin.

7 1669.  Sturmy, Mariner’s Mag., Penalties & Forfeit., 2. Iron Wyre, or whited Wyre, are forfeited if any such be Imported.

8 1733.  Pope, Donne’s Sat., IV. 151. He tells … What Lady’s face is not a whited wall.

9 1764.  Dodsley, Leasowes, in Shenstone’s Wks. (1777), II. 305. A whited village among trees.

10 1850.  Kingsley, Alton Locke, iv. This old whited sepulchre, society.

11 1867.  Emerson, May-day, 104. The whited desert knew me not, Snow-ridges masked each darling spot.

12   2.  Whitened by deprivation of color; spec. bleached, as cloth; also, peeled so as to expose the white interior.

13 1529.  Dunmow Churchw. MS., lf. 10 b. xxv. ells of whytyd normvndy at vi d the ell.

14 1692.  Lond. Gaz., No. 2814/4. A considerable quantity of Whited Linen.

15 1794.  Trans. Soc. Arts, XII. 139. About a load and a half whited osiers.

16 1897.  P. Warung, Tales Old Regime, 205. John Donnell,… brown complexion,… whited raised spot on lower part of right eye.

17   † 3.  Whited brown (of paper); whitish brown, whity-brown. Obs.

18 1720.  Lett. Lond. Jrnl. (1721), 11. Having put up my Books [etc.] in a Sheet of whited-brown Paper.

19 1845.  G. Dodd, Brit. Manuf., Ser. VI. 18.

20   II.  [f. WHITE sb. 1 + -ED2.]

21   4.  Of an egg: Having white or albumen (of a specified kind). rare–1.

22 1599.  T. M[oufet], Silkwormes, 66. Whited alike, and yellow yolked all.

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