See whit in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
"word": "snow whit"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Middle English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "And his head and his hairs were white, like white wool or snow, and his eyes were like fire's flame.",
"ref": "c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Apocalips 1:14, page 117v; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:",
"text": "⁊ þe heed of him ⁊ his heeris weren whiyt as whiyt wolle .· ⁊ as ſnow / ⁊ þe iȝen of him as flawme of fier .·",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"white, pale, light (in color)"
],
"links": [
[
"white",
"white"
],
[
"pale",
"pale"
],
[
"light",
"light"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"wearing white clothes"
],
"links": [
[
"white",
"white"
],
[
"clothes",
"clothes"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(referring to people) wearing white clothes"
],
"raw_tags": [
"referring to people"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"having white skin"
],
"links": [
[
"white",
"white"
],
[
"skin",
"skin"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(referring to people) having white skin"
],
"raw_tags": [
"referring to people"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"attractive, fair, beautiful"
],
"links": [
[
"attractive",
"attractive"
],
[
"fair",
"fair"
],
[
"beautiful",
"beautiful"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"bright, shining, brilliant"
],
"links": [
[
"bright",
"bright"
],
[
"shining",
"shining"
],
[
"brilliant",
"brilliant"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"having white flowers"
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(referring to plants) having white flowers"
],
"raw_tags": [
"referring to plants"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"enm:Heraldry"
],
"glosses": [
"silver, argent (tincture)"
],
"links": [
[
"heraldry",
"heraldry"
],
[
"silver",
"silver"
],
[
"argent",
"argent"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(heraldry) silver, argent (tincture)"
],
"topics": [
"government",
"heraldry",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"monarchy",
"nobility",
"politics"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"enm:Alchemy"
],
"glosses": [
"Inducing the transmutation of a substance into silver"
],
"links": [
[
"alchemy",
"alchemy"
],
[
"transmutation",
"transmutation"
],
[
"silver",
"silver"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(alchemy) Inducing the transmutation of a substance into silver"
],
"topics": [
"alchemy",
"pseudoscience"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"enm:Medicine"
],
"glosses": [
"Unusually light; bearing the pallor of death"
],
"links": [
[
"medicine",
"medicine"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(medicine) Unusually light; bearing the pallor of death"
],
"topics": [
"medicine",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/hwiːt/"
}
],
"word": "whit"
}
{
"categories": [
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"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English nouns",
"Middle English terms derived from Old English",
"Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Middle English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
"Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
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"depth": 1,
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "white"
},
"expansion": "English: white",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "English: white"
},
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"2": "quhite",
"3": "fyte",
"4": "fite",
"5": "whyte",
"6": "white"
},
"expansion": "Scots: quhite, fyte, fite, whyte, white",
"name": "desc"
}
],
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}
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"2": "ang",
"3": "hwīt",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"id": "",
"lit": "",
"nocat": "",
"pos": "",
"sc": "",
"sort": "",
"tr": "",
"ts": ""
},
"expansion": "Old English hwīt",
"name": "inh"
},
{
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"3": "hwīt"
},
"expansion": "Inherited from Old English hwīt",
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{
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"2": "gmw-pro",
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{
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"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*hwītaz"
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"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Inherited from Old English hwīt, from Proto-West Germanic *hwīt, from Proto-Germanic *hwītaz.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "hwit",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "white",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "whyte",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "whitt",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "whytt",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "whyt",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "whiȝt",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "qwyght",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "ȝwijt",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "wyghte",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "whiyt",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "whijt",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
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"2": "noun"
},
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}
],
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"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "grey"
},
{
"word": "hor"
},
{
"word": "blak"
},
{
"word": "red"
},
{
"word": "cremesyn"
},
{
"word": "gernet"
},
{
"word": "citrine"
},
{
"word": "aumbre"
},
{
"word": "broun"
},
{
"word": "tawne"
},
{
"word": "yelow"
},
{
"word": "dorry"
},
{
"word": "gul"
},
{
"word": "canevas"
},
{
"word": "grasgrene"
},
{
"word": "grene"
},
{
"word": "plunket"
},
{
"word": "ewage"
},
{
"word": "asure"
},
{
"word": "livid"
},
{
"word": "blewe"
},
{
"word": "blo"
},
{
"word": "pers"
},
{
"word": "violet"
},
{
"word": "inde"
},
{
"word": "rose"
},
{
"word": "murrey"
},
{
"word": "purpel"
},
{
"word": "purpur"
},
{
"word": "claret"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"white (colour)"
],
"links": [
[
"white",
"white"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"white pigment"
],
"links": [
[
"white",
"white"
],
[
"pigment",
"pigment"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"The white of an egg"
],
"links": [
[
"white",
"white"
],
[
"egg",
"egg"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"The white of an eye"
],
"links": [
[
"white",
"white"
],
[
"eye",
"eye"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"white fabric"
],
"links": [
[
"white",
"white"
],
[
"fabric",
"fabric"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"white wine"
],
"links": [
[
"white",
"white"
],
[
"wine",
"wine"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"dairy products"
],
"links": [
[
"dairy",
"dairy"
],
[
"products",
"products"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Other objects notable for being white"
],
"links": [
[
"white",
"white"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/hwiːt/"
}
],
"word": "whit"
}
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