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whitish, a. (n.)|ˈhwaɪtɪʃ|
[f. white a. + -ish1.]
1. Somewhat white; of a colour inclining to or approaching white.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. cl. (1495) T vj b/1 The leuys [of the trees of Sechym] ben rough and whitysshe. 1530Palsgr. 329/1 Whytysshe, blanchastre. 1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde 122 Yf the wheles seme whytysshe. 1575Turberv. Faulconrie 17 Of the lesse Vulture, whiche is the browne or whitish Vulture. 1586W. Webbe Eng. Poetrie (Arb.) 74 When haires from my beard did ginne to be whitish. 1684Boyle Exper. Poros. Bod. ii. vi. 105 A multitude of little cracks..which destroyed its former transparency, and made it [sc. a crystal] look whitish. 1790Cook's 1st Voy. I. 17 A species of the Medusa..which..emitted a whitish light. 1797T. Morton Cure for Heartache i. i. 6 How whitish and deadly bad he do look. 1815Scott Guy M. x, A small swamp, the clay of which was whitish. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 333 The mucous membrane will..appear whitish from the presence of partially shed epithelium.
b. as n. A colour approaching white.
1815Stephens in Shaw's Gen. Zool. IX. i. 49 The shafts spotted with whitish, the feathers alternately banded with black and rufous.
2. a. Qualifying other adjs. (or ns.) of colour, indicating a pale or light tint of the colour specified.
1653R. Sanders Physiogn. 166 A whitish-red colour. 1667Phil. Trans. II. 430 Turquois..of the New [Rock] are of an ill whitish Blew. 1712Steele Spect. No. 436 ⁋1 A whitish brown Paper. 1869Mrs. Stowe Oldtown Folks iii, Her..whitish-blue eyes. 1883D. C. Murray Hearts xvi, His swarthy face had taken an ugly tint of whitish-green.
b. In parasynthetic combinations.
1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Cassida, The whitish-flowered cassida. 1800Shaw Gen. Zool. I. 538 Whitish-tailed Shrew.
Hence ˈwhitishness, the quality of being whitish; whitish colour or tint.
1544T. Phaer Bk. Childr. (1553) T vij b, Yelownes or whittishnes of the eyes. 1660Boyle New Exp. Phys. Mech. xxxvii. 307 They were wont..by their whiteishness, to emulate in some measure the apparition of Light. a1722Lisle Husb. (1757) 155 The best sort of barley..is of a pale lively yellow colour, with a bright whitishness in it. 1806Herschel in Phil. Trans. XCVI. 465 The north [polar regions of Saturn] retain..some whitishness. 1929S. Leslie Anglo-Catholic xii. 158 In the lamplight he noticed her deathliness of hue, the whitishness of lead-poisoning. |