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Whit(e, Whyt, adj. [Var. of Quhite adj.] a. Further examples of place-names. b. = Quhite adj. 1 a. c. = Quhite adj. 1 d. d. In witchcraft: Beneficent or with beneficent application. Cf. Quhite adj. 7 a. —a. 1165–85 Reg. Episc. Glasg. I 29.
Whiteslade c1200 Reg. Episc. Glasg. I 89.
Usque in Whiteshopes —b. c1500-c1512 Dunb. (STS) lxxxviii 33.
London … Upon thy lusty brigge of pylers white Been merchauntis full royall to behold —c. 1607 Soc. Ant. XI 413.
Then you must ioyne it [sc. mercury] with … fyne gold … fynlie limelled in limell, and instantly that whit stoofe of mercury and luna will deuore vp the gould 1659 Whitelaw Sc. Arms Makers 267.
John Smith presented his sey as a gunsmith viz.: a whytlock and a gun work —d. 1685 Sinclair Satan's Inv. World 23.
White Pater Noster God was my foster [etc.] … All saints be the better That hear the white prayer, Pater Noster