What is "whitish"

Usage examples of "whitish".

Stephen noticed, for the first time, that the faded blue eyes were showing the first signs of that whitish ring, the arcus senilis.

They had directed her northwest, flying higher into the Djenn Marre, then due west, over the extreme northwestern triangle of the dense Borobodur forest to a great whitish slab of rock known as Receive Tears Ridge.

The flowers come foorth before the leaves, oftentimes in the moneth of Januarie, clustering togither about the stalks at certain distances, of a whitish colour tending to purple, and of a most fragrant and pleasant sweet smell.

So there, where the shadow lay thickest under the arch, was a patch of still black water, confined in stagnancy by a sunk log on which alluvial mud had made a garden of whitish grasses like the beard of an unclean old man.

A heavy, whitish fog drifted through the bars of the great iron fence and clung to the shadows of the Gothic archways.

The commonest soluble impurity is calcium sulphate, which produces a whitish scum on the face of the brick in drying, and as the scum becomes permanently fixed in burning, such bricks are of little use except for common work.

The small whitish flowers are borne on the face of the cladodes, and are succeeded by a bright red berry.

Whitish mosses hung like curtains of slimy seaweed down the dripping walls.

I ruffled quickly through the thick mass of auburn and cinnamon, looking for the telltale whitish nits, then stepped back, bending my own head.

The four studs pushing the cart were in the lead, the contents of the trash cans already ablaze, pouring whitish gray smoke into the air, obscuring the cart and the nearest Knights.

Fred soon emerged from the locker room, clad in loose whitish trousers and jackets, only moderately translucent, and wearing athletes codpieces of hard protective plastic.

The tonsils become enlarged and exude a whitish purulent substance and the glands of the throat may become tender and swollen.

They walked along the river past the town and came to a spot where ceiba trees with slick green leaves and whitish bark and roots like alligator tails grew close to the shore, and there they ate and talked and listened to the water gulping against the clay bank, to the birds, to the faint noises from the airbase that at this distance sounded part of nature.

The white-bronze blades held some order, like his own dark iron bladessomething he had not anticipated, not after sensing the whitish chaos that seemed to mist around the Cyadoran forces.

In the centre of the carbonaceous ball I could discern a small whitish marble which seemed to be all that remained of the original vegetable.