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It's a new country, full of savages, black and white, and the white are the worst of them, and more shame for us we sent them there, though I don't know what else we could have done.

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  1. noun The achromatic color of maximum lightness; the color of objects that reflect nearly all light of all visible wavelengths; the complement or antagonist of black, the other extreme of the neutral gray series. Although typically a response to maximum stimulation of the retina, the perception of white appears always to depend on contrast.
  2. noun The white or nearly white part, as:
  3. noun The albumen of an egg.
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  • HW is a voiceless w , as in English white (in northern pronunciation). —  The Lord of the Rings
  • Great Bottle: This white is the new sommelier's darling. —  Food & Wine: Articles
  • I've been personally aware of this white is the standard of beauty thing ever since I was a kid. —  kate rothwell
  • The black model looks slightly less cheap, though the white is attractive in terms of color. —  MobileTechReview
  • Ultra white is a beautiful, very light and clean web 2.0 theme for blogs that concentrate on finances, reviews, credit cards, online shopping and even just women or computers. —  TopTut.com - Top Tutorials
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  1. Middle English, from Old English hwīt; see kweit- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English whit, whyt, qvit, hwit, from Anglo-Saxon hwīt = Old Saxon hwīt = OFries. hwīt = Dutch wit = Low German wit = Old High German Middle High German wīz, German weiss = Icelandic hvītr = Swedish hvit = Danish hvid = Goth, hweits, white; akin to Sanskrit çveta, white, from √ çvit, be white, shine: ef. çvitra, çvitna, white, Old Bulgarian svietŭ, light, svĭtieti, shine, give light, Russian svietŭ, light, etc. Hence ult. wheat, whitster, whittle, whiting, etc.
  2. (a) from Middle English whiten, hwiten, from Anglo-Saxon hwītian = Old High German wīzen, Middle High German wīzen = Gothic (Moesogothic) hweitjan, become white; also Anglo-Saxon gehwītian = Dutch wit ten = German weissen = Gothic (Moesogothic) gahweitjan, make white; from the adjective: see white, a.
 

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