#430. Whiteness. -- N. whiteness &c. adj.; argent. albification[obs], etiolation; lactescence[obs].
snow, paper, chalk, milk, lily, ivory, alabaster; albata[obs], eburin[obs], German silver, white metal, barium sulphate[Chem], titanium oxide, blanc fixe[Fr], ceruse[obs], pearl white; white lead, carbonate of lead.
V. be white &c. adj.
render white &c. adj.; whiten, bleach, blanch, etiolate, whitewash, silver.
Adj. white; milk-white, snow-white; snowy; niveous[obs], candid, chalky; hoar, hoary; silvery; argent, argentine; canescent[obs], cretaceous, lactescent[obs].
whitish, creamy, pearly, fair, blond; blanched &c. v.; high in tone, light.
white as a sheet, white as driven snow, white as a lily, white as silver; like ivory &c. n.