white

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

WHITE, adjective [G.] 1. Being in the color of pure snow; snowy; not dark; as white paper; a white skin. 2. Pale; destitute of color in the cheeks, or of the tinge of blood color; as white with fear. 3. Having the color of purity; pure; clean; free from spot; as white robed innocence. 4. Gray; as white hair; a venerable man, white with age. 5. Pure; unblemished. No whiter page than Addisons remains. 6. In a scriptural sense, purified from sin; sanctified. Psalms 51:7.
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