| 单词 | whitishness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈwhitishness ˈwhitishness n. a whitish quality or colour. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [noun] > whitishness whitisha1398 whitishness1544 1544 Bk. Chyldren in T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe (new ed.) sig. f.viv The longe and brode wormes are knowen by these sygnes, that is to saye, by yelownesse or whyttishnesse of the eyes..and grypyng in the bellye. 1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xxxvii. 307 They were wont..by their whiteishness, to emulate in some measure the apparition of Light. a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 155 The best sort of barley..is of a pale lively yellow colour, with a bright whitishness in it. 1806 W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 96 465 The north [polar regions of Saturn] retain also some whitishness. 1929 S. Leslie Anglo-Catholic xii. 158 He noticed her deathliness of hue, the whitishness of lead-poisoning. 2005 G. Dyer Ongoing Moment (2007) 181 There was no sky and there were no clouds, just an expanse of whitishness. < as lemmas |
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