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whited, ppl. a. Now rare or arch.|ˈhwaɪtɪd|
I. [f. white v.1 + -ed1.]
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.
1340Ayenb. 228 Huo þet is yhol of bodie and uoul ine herte is ase þe berieles yhuited. 1388Wyclif Acts xxiii. 3 Thanne Poul seide to hym, Thou whitid wal, God smyte thee. 1552Huloet, Whyghted or paynted with white leade, cerustatus. 1645Milton Hor. Ep. 1. xvi. 40 in Tetrach. 39 But his owne house, and the whole neighbourhood Sees his foule inside through his whited skin. 1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag., Penalties & Forfeit. 2 Iron Wyre, or whited Wyre, are forfeited if any such be Imported. 1733Pope Donne's Sat. iv. 151 He tells..What Lady's face is not a whited wall. 1764Dodsley Leasowes in Shenstone's Wks. (1777) II. 305 A whited village among trees. 1835J. E. Alexander Sketches in Portugal i. 13 What a whited sepulchre we found the city to be! 1850Kingsley Alton Locke iv, This old whited sepulchre, society. 1867Emerson May-day 104 The whited desert knew me not, Snow-ridges masked each darling spot.
2. Whitened by deprivation of colour; spec. bleached, as cloth; also, peeled so as to expose the white interior.
1529Dunmow Churchw. MS. lf. 10 b, xxv. ells of whytyd normvndy at vi d the ell. 1692Lond. Gaz. No. 2814/4 A considerable quantity of Whited Linen. 1794Trans. Soc. Arts XII. 139 About a load and a half whited osiers. 1897P. Warung Tales Old Regime 205 John Donnell,..brown complexion,..whited raised spot on lower part of right eye.
†3. whited brown (of paper): whitish brown, whity-brown. Obs.
1720Lett. Lond. Jrnl. (1721) 11 Having put up my Books [etc.] in a Sheet of whited-brown Paper. 1846Dodd Brit. Manuf. Ser. vi. 18.
II. [f. white n. 1 + -ed2.]
4. Of an egg: Having white or albumen (of a specified kind). rare—1.
1599T. M[oufet] Silkwormes 66 Whited alike, and yellow yolked all. |