Vocabulary : Whitling to Whitsunday

Whitling : A young full trout during its second season.
Whitlow : An inflammation of the fingers or toes, generally of the last phalanx, terminating usually in suppuration. The inflammation may occupy any seat between the skin and the bone, but is usually applied to a felon or inflammation of the periosteal structures of the bone. ;; An inflammatory disease of the feet. It occurs round the hoof, where an acrid matter is collected.
Whitlow-wort : Same as Whitlow grass, under Whitlow.
Whitmonday : The day following Whitsunday; -- called also Whitsun Monday.
Whitneyite : an arsenide of copper from Lake Superior.

Whitson : See Whitsun.
Whitsour : A sort of apple.
Whitster : A whitener; a bleacher; a whitester.
Whitsun : Of, pertaining to, or observed at, Whitsuntide; as, Whitsun week; Whitsun Tuesday; Whitsun pastorals.
Whitsunday : The seventh Sunday, and the fiftieth day, after Easter; a festival of the church in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost; Pentecost; -- so called, it is said, because, in the primitive church, those who had been newly baptized appeared at church between Easter and Pentecost in white garments. ;; See the Note under Term, n., 12.

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