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English : patronymic from White.Rev. Samuel Whiting arrived in Boston, MA, in May 1636, and made his home in Lynn, MA.
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English (southern Lancashire) : habitational name from a minor place in the parish of Rochdale, named from Old English mere ‘lake’, ‘pool’ + land ‘tract of land’, ‘estate’, ‘cultivated land’. There may also have been some confusion with Markland.Dutch : habitational name from Maarland in Eijsden, Dutch Limburg.possibly a variant of Dutch Merlan, from French merlan ‘whiting’, a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or seller of these fish.
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English : variant spelling of Whittington.
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English : variant of Whiting.
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A North American fish (Merlucius vulgaris) allied to the preceding; -- called also silver hake.
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The European whiting.
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The bib, or whiting pout.
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Any one of several species of North American marine sciaenoid food fishes belonging to genus Menticirrhus, especially M. Americanus, found from Maryland to Brazil, and M. littoralis, common from Virginia to Texas; -- called also silver whiting, and surf whiting.
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The pollock; -- called also, coalsey, colemie, colmey, coal whiting, etc. See Pollock.
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A kind of thick paste or cement compounded of whiting, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed oil, when applied beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough, -- used in fastening glass in sashes, stopping crevices, and for similar purposes.
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of White
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An arctic fish (Gadus luscus), allied to the cod; -- called also pout and whiting pout.
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One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merlucius, and allies. The common European hake is M. vulgaris; the American silver hake or whiting is M. bilinearis. Two American species (Phycis chuss and P. tenius) are important food fishes, and are also valued for their oil and sounds. Called also squirrel hake, and codling.
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A young whiting.
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A fair lass.
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Chalk prepared in an impalpable powder by pulverizing and repeated washing, used as a pigment, as an ingredient in putty, for cleaning silver, etc.
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The European whiting pout or bib.
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A common European food fish (Melangus vulgaris) of the Codfish family; -- called also fittin.
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A southern name for the kingfishes of the eastern and southeastern coasts of the United States; -- also improperly called whiting.
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A marine gadoid food fish of Europe (Pollachius virens). Called also greenfish, greenling, lait, leet, lob, lythe, and whiting pollack.
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An American marine food fish of the genus Menticirrus, especially M. saxatilis, or M. nebulosos, of the Atlantic coast; -- called also whiting, surf whiting, and barb.
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Either one of two pigments (called blue verditer, and green verditer) which are made by treating copper nitrate with calcium carbonate (in the form of lime, whiting, chalk, etc.) They consist of hydrated copper carbonates analogous to the minerals azurite and malachite.
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That which is used to render white; whiting.
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A composition of line and water, or of whiting size, and water, or the like, used for whitening walls, ceilings, etc.; milk of lime.