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. Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters, as from about 30th Street to about 50th Street; -- so called from its brilliant illumination at night. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Anat.) The substance of the medullary sheath. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Metal.) A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700° to 850° C. in molten lead, further cooled in oil, reheated to between 370° and 670° C., and cooled in air. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. Something requiring much care and expense to maintain and yielding little profit, and often difficult to sell; any burdensome possession. [ Slang ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Eccl.) A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. See Carmelite. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A large mass of tough sinewy substance in the head of sperm whales, just above the upper jaw and extending in streaks into the junk above it. It resembles blubber, but contains no oil. Also, the part of the head in which it occurs. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. (a) A list of business concerns regarded as worthy of patronage by reason of compliance with certain conditions, as in regard to treatment of employees; as, the white list of the Consumers' League. [ Cant ] (b) (New York Stock Exchange) The official list of all transactions, published daily on white paper, divided into sales from 10 to 12, 12 to 2, and 2 to 3. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. A kind of mustard (Sinapis alba) with rough-hairy foliage, a long-beaked hispid pod, and pale seeds, which yield mustard and mustard oil. The plant is also grown for forage. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. a mixture or random noise sounds extending over the entire audible frequency spectrum with approximately equal intensity at all frequencies. It is used in certain experiments, as in psychology, to prevent subjects from hearing meaningful sounds. [ PJC ]

. A person of the Caucasian race (6 Fed. Rep. 256). In the time of slavery in the United States white person was generally construed as a person without admixture of colored blood. In various statutes and decisions in different States since 1865 white person is construed as in effect (as of 1913): one not having any negro blood (Ark., Okla.); one having less than one eighth of negro blood (Ala., Fla., Ga., Ind., Ky., Md., Minn., Miss., Mo., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Tex.); one having less than one fourth (Mich., Neb., Ore., Va.); one having less than one half (Ohio). Since the passage of civil rights legislation in the 1960's and 1970's, the term has little legal significance -- for some purposes, as in filling out questionnaires, a person's race is whatever the person claims it to be. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

. Tuberculosis, esp. of the lungs. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. A woman held in involuntary confinement for purposes of prostitution; loosely, any woman forced into unwilling prostitution. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. A person engaged in procuring or holding a woman or women for unwilling prostitution. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]