Crossword clues for whitened
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whiten \Whit"en\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Whitened; p. pr. & vb. n. Whitening.] [OE. whitenen; cf. Icel. hv[=i]tn
] To grow white; to turn or become white or whiter; as, the hair whitens with age; the sea whitens with foam; the trees in spring whiten with blossoms.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: whiten)
WordNet
adj. (of hair) having lost its color; "the white hairs of old age" [syn: white]
Usage examples of "whitened".
Fresh snow whitened the slopes between the trees, but the valley floor was churned to dark mud by hundreds of feet.
The dancers were women who carried leafy ash branches with which they swept the ground as they capered ahead of the seven priests whose naked bodies had been whitened with the slurry of chalk in which finger patterns swirled.
Kital wished to impress, and he did, for he was dressed in an ankle-length deerskin cloak that had been whitened with chalk and urine, then thickly sewn with rings of bronze that reflected the sun so that it seemed to glint when he moved forward to greet Hengall.
Six women dancers came first, all naked to the waist and sweeping the ground with ash branches, while behind them came a dozen naked priests, their skin whitened by chalk and their heads crowned with antlers.
Her hair was whitened with ash and her gums were still bloody where she had pulled out her teeth.
The hair was then powdered white with flour, and though the clubbed and whitened hair looked smart and neat, it was a haven for lice and fleas.
The ball screamed through the dust, ricocheted from a boulder and bounced on up over the northern defences to fall into the whitened river.
They choked on the airborne dust and their red coats were whitened by it, but they were men who had steeled themselves to the worst ordeal of war, the storming of a breach, and the steel was hard and cold in their souls so that they were scarcely aware of the horror of the last few seconds, only of the need to climb the shoulders of the breach and start their killing.
He saw some red coats, oddly whitened, moving north, then he glimpsed a rush of the enemy coming from the southern bastions to replace the defenders who had been scoured from the ramparts by the explosion.
But she herself was steady and calm enough, bent on keeping emotion away, and somehow getting him back along the riverpath, abandoned now to the moon and the bright, still spaces of the night and the slow-moving, whitened water.
But of that beautiful and fascinating man nothing was left, not even the dignity of a thatch of greyed or whitened hair.
They encountered no one along the way so there was no possibility of shelter at night, but the hard freeze continued, giving them days of cloudless blue skies and nights of a heaven whitened by stars in cloudy tangles.
Happy is the country in which men of reverend years and whitened heads watch, until night draws towards the day, and weariness is forgotten in the desire to do good, and to honor the state!
Notwithstanding his confusion, however, an evident look of wonder crossed his mortified features when he first beheld the humble condition, the thin and whitened locks, and the general air and bearing of the old man with whom he now found himself.