When - WHEN, adv. [G., L.]
1. At the time. We were present when General LaFayette embarked at Havre for New York.
2. At what time, interrogatively.
When shall these things be? Mat 24.
3. Which time.
I was adopted heir by his consent; since when, his oath is broke.
4. After the time that. When the act is passed, the public will be satisfied.
5. At what time.
Kings may take their advantage, when and how they list.
When as, at the time when; what time.
When as sacred light began to dawn.
Whence - WHENCE, adv.
1. From what place.
Whence and what art thou?
2. From what source. Whence shall we derive hope? Whence comes this honor?
Whence hath this man this wisdom? Mat 13.
3. From which premises, principles or facts. These facts or principles are admitted, whence it follows, that judgment must be entered for the plaintiff.
4. How; by what way or means. Mark 12.
5. In general, from which person, cause, place, principle or circumstance.
From whence may be considered as tautological, from being implied in whence; but the use is well authorized, and in some cases the use of it seems to give force or beauty to the phrase. We ascended the mountain, from whence we took a view of the beautiful plains below.
Of whence is not now used.
Wherefore - WHEREFORE, adv. [where and for.]
1. For which reason.
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Mat 7.
2. Why; for what reason.
Wherefore didst thou doubt? Mat 14.
Whether - WHETHER, pronoun or substitute. [L. The sense seems to be what, or which of two, referring either to persons or to sentences.]
1. Which of two.
Whether of them twain did the will of his father? Mat 21/
Here whether is a substitute for one of two, and signifies which; which of the two; but in this sense it is obsolete.
2. Which of two alternatives, expressed by a sentence or the clause of a sentence, and followed by or. Resolve whether you will go or not; that is, you will go or not go; resolve which.
[Note. IN the latter use, which is now most common, whether is called an adverb. This is a mistake. It is the same part of speech as in the former example. The only difference is that in the former example it represents or refers to a noun, and in the latter to a sentence or clause.]
White - WHITE, n.
1. One of the natural colors of bodies, but not strictly a color, for it is said to be a composition of all the colors; destitution of all stain or obscurity on the surface; whiteness. WE say, bleached cloth is of a good white; attired in a robe of white.
2. A white spot or thing; the mark at which an arrow is shot.
White of the eye, that part of the ball of the eye surrounding the iris or colored part. It owes its whiteness to the lunica albuginea or adnata, a partial covering of the forepart of the eye, formed by the expansion of the tendons of the muscles which move the eye-ball.
White of an egg, the albumen, or pellucid viscous fluid, which surrounds the vitellus or yelk.
An analogous part, in the seeds of plants, is called the albumen or white. It is a farinaceous fleshy or horny substance, which makes up the chief bulk of some seeds, as in grasses, corn, palms and lilies, never rising out of the ground nor performing the office of leaves, but destined solely to nourish the germinating embryo, till its roots can perform their office. It is the perispermum of Jussieu.
Spanish white, a substance used in painting, prepared from chalk, by separating from the latter its silicious impurities.
WHITE, v.t. To make white; to whiten; to whitewash; as whited sepulchers. Mark 9. Mat 23.