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whiting white, powdery substance, prepared by grinding chalk or some other source of calcium carbonate. When mixed with linseed oil it forms putty , and with water and several other substances it constitutes whitewash . It is used as a pigment, called Spanish white, as a filler in paints, for polishing metalware, and for various other purposes.

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A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition | 2005 | | Â© A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition 2005, originally published by Oxford University Press 2005. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

whiting White fish, Merlangius merlangus.

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whiting2 †whitewashing; finely powdered chalk as used for this XV. f. WHITE vb. + -ING1.

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