…of the colour of milk or fresh snow, due to the reflection of all visible rays of light; the opposite of black…
…belonging to or denoting a human group having light-coloured skin (chiefly used of peoples of European extraction)…
…(1917–2002), US Supreme Court associate justice 1962–93. Appointed to the Court by President Kennedy, he was considered a moderate, or centrist, and was often the swing vote when the Court was evenly divided. Before becoming a lawyer in 1946, he played professional football and studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar…
…(1899–1985), US writer; full name Elwyn Brooks White. He was a chief contributor to The New Yorker magazine from 1926 and Harper’s magazine 1938–43 and the author of the children’s classics Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte’s Web (1952), and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970)…
… Jr. (1845–1921), US chief justice 1910–21. Before being appointed to the Court as an associate justice 1894–1910 by President Cleveland, he served as a US senator from Louisiana 1891–94. Appointed chief justice by President Taft, he was the first associate justice to go on to that higher post. He was noted for his work on antitrust legislation…
…(1720–93), English clergyman and naturalist. He wrote many letters to friends on aspects of natural history in his native village of Selborne, Hampshire; these were published in 1789 as The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, which has remained in print ever since…
…(1912–90), Australian novelist, born in Britain; full name Patrick Victor Martindale White. White’s reputation is chiefly based on the two novels The Tree of Man (1955) and Voss (1957). Nobel Prize for Literature (1973)…
…(1906–64), British novelist, born in India; full name Terence Hanbury White. He is best known for the tetralogy The Once and Future King, his reworking of the Arthurian legend that began with The Sword in the Stone (1937)…
…(1915–86), US journalist and historian. He is best known for The Making of the President 1960 (Pulitzer Prize, 1962). Other works include In Search of History (1978) and America in Search of Itself (1982)…
…the clear, viscous substance round the yolk of an egg that turns white when cooked or beaten…
…denoting or relating to a person whose origin is not predominantly European…
…(of vision) become impaired by exposure to sudden bright light…
…a small Old World songbird with a ring of white feathers around the eye…
…used in reference to a good or moral person, especially the hero in a film, novel, or play…
…a harmless or trivial lie, especially one told to avoid hurting someone’s feelings…
…a colourless petroleum distillate, especially liquid paraffin, used medicinally and in the food and plastic industries…
…a type of coffee made with espresso and hot steamed milk, but without the froth characteristic of a cappuccino…
…a member of an impoverished white underclass, especially one living in the southern US…
…any of the armies which opposed the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War of 1918–21…
…a birch tree with white bark, especially the paper birch or the European silver birch…
…a book of rules, standards, or records, especially an official government report, bound in white…
…belonging to or representative of the white middle classes; not progressive, radical, or innovative…
…a long white protective garment worn by doctors, hospital attendants, and laboratory workers…
…a small very dense star that is typically the size of a planet. A white dwarf is formed when a low-mass star has exhausted all its central nuclear fuel and lost its outer layers as a planetary nebula…
…fish with pale flesh, such as plaice, halibut, cod, and haddock…
…a white flag or cloth used as a symbol of surrender, truce, or a desire to parley…
…fine wheat flour, typically bleached, from which most of the bran and germ have been removed…
…a silver-coloured alloy of gold with nickel, platinum, or another metal…
…large electrical goods used domestically such as refrigerators and washing machines, typically white in colour…
…the temperature or state of something that is so hot that it emits white light…
…a hypothetical celestial object which expands outwards from a space-time singularity and emits energy, in the manner of a time-reversed black hole…
