WHITE

A Mongolian is not a "white person," within the meaning of the term as

A Mongolian is not a “white person,” within the meaning of the terin as used in the naturalization laws of the United States; the term applies only to persons of the Caucasian race. In re Ah Yup, 5 Sawy 155, Fed. Cas. No. 104.

The Burlingame treaty of July 28, 1868, declares, Art. 6, that "Chinese subjects visiting or residing in the United States, shall enjoy the same privileges, immunities, and exemptions in respect to travel and residence, as may be enjoyed by the citizens or subjects of the most favored nation," and, reciprocally, as to citizens of the United States in China. Appeals from the Pacific coast induced the Government to request a modification of the treaty. This resulted in the supplemental treaty of November 17, 1880, the first article of which provides that "whenever in the opinion of the government of the See Mowatt v. Carow, 7 Paige, 339 (1838), Walworth, Ch.; Palmer v. Horn, 84 N. Y. 520-21 (1881); Ingraham v. Meade, 3 Wall. Jr. 42 (1855); Rogers v. Weller, 5 Biss. 168 (1870); Feit v. Vanatta, 21 N. J. E. 84 (1870); Winsor v. Odd Fellows' Association, 13 R. I. 150 (1880); Butler v. Ralston, 69 Ga. 489 (1882); Bates v. Dewson, 128 Mass. 334 (1880). 23 Coke, *17 (1599); Cannon v. Barry, 59 Miss. 289, 300 (1881), cases; Bannister v. Bull, 16 S. C. 227 (1881). Re Paton, 41 Hun, 500 (1886); Re Brown, 29 id. 417 (1883), cases. Pugh v. Pugh, 105 Ind. 555 (1885); 94 id. 407, cases; Smith v. Smith, 24 S. C. 214 (1885). • Minot v. Harris, 132 Mass. 531 (1882). See 1 Bl. Com. 453; 4 id. 28; 4 Kent, 345; People v. Turner, 55 III. 283-86 (1870). Re Scarritt, 76 Mo. 565, 584 (1882), cases. United States, the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States, or their residence therein, affects or threatens to affect the interests of that country, or to endanger the good order of the said country or of any locality within the territory thereof, the government of China agrees that the government of the United States may regulate, limit or suspend such coming or residence, but may not absolutely prohibit it. The limitation or suspension may be reasonable and shall apply only to Chinese who may go to the United States as laborers and immigrants shall not be subject to personal maltreatment or abuse;" and the second article of which provides that "Chinese subjects, whether proceeding to the United States as teachers, students, merchants, or from curiosity, together with their body and household servants, and Chinese laborers who are now in the United States, shall be allowed to go and come of their own free will and accord, and shall be accorded all the rights, privileges, immunities, and exemptions which are accorded to the citizens and subjects of the most favored nation." 1 The act of May 6, 1882, c. 126 (22 St. L. 58), entitled "An act to execute certain stipulations relating to Chinese," as amended by the act of July 5, 1884, с. 220 (23 St. L. 115) - the words in italics being introduced by the act of 1884, while those in brackets were in the act of 1882, but were stricken out by the amendatory act - provides as follows: Whereas, in the opinion of the government of the United States, the coming of Chinese laborers to this country endangers the good order of certain localities within the territory thereof, therefore be enacted, - Section 1. That from and after the [expiration of ninety days next after the] passage of this act, and until the expiration of ten years, the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States be, and the same is hereby, suspended; and during such suspension it shall not be lawful for any Chinese laborer to come from any foreign port or place, or, having so come, [after the expiration of said ninety days,] to remain within the United States. Sec. 2. The master of any vessel who shall knowingly bring within the United States on such vessel and land, or attempt to land, or permit to be landed, any Chinese laborer, from any foreign place, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars for each and every laborer so brought, and may also be imprisoned for a term not exceeding one year. Sec. 3. The foregoing sections shall not apply to Chinese laborers who were in the United States on the 17th of November, 1880, or who shall have come into the same before the expiration of ninety days next after the passage of the act to which this act is amendatory, nor shall said sections apply to laborers, [and] who shall produce to such master before going on board such vessel, and to the collector of the port at which such vessel shall arrive, the evidence hereinafter required of his being one of the laborers in this section mentioned; nor shall the foregoing sections 1 See Treaty of 1868, 16 St. L. 739; Treaty of 1880, 22 St. L. 826; Heong v. United States, 112 U. S. 536, 542 (1884); Act 1884, ib. 543; 124 id. 627. "White person," as used in the naturalization laws, means a person of the Caucasian race, and does not therefore include a Mongolian.3 Does not include a person half white and half Indian. But does include one nearer white than black or red. In the legislation of the slave period, referred to a person without admixture of colored blood, whatever the actual complexion might be. See CITIZEN; COLOR, 1; MULATTO. White acre. See ACRE.

Reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum combined; not tinted with any of the proper colors or their mixtures; having the color of pure snow; snowy; -- the opposite of Ant: black or dark; as, white paper; a white skin. "Pearls white." Chaucer. White as the whitest lily on a stream. Longfellow. Destitute of color, as in the cheeks, or of the tinge of blood color; pale; pallid; as, white with fear. Or whispering with white lips, "The foe! They come! they come!" Byron. Having the color of purity; free from spot or blemish, or from guilt or pollution; innocent; pure. White as thy fame, and as thy honor clear. Dryden. No whiter page than Addison's remains. Pope. Gray, as from age; having silvery hair; hoary. Your high engendered battles 'gainst a head So old and white as this. Shak. Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favorable. On the whole, however, the dominie reckoned this as one of the white days of his life. Sir W. Scott. Regarded with especial favor; favorite; darling. Come forth, my white spouse. Chaucer. I am his white boy, and will not be gullet. Ford. A hard, silvery-white cast iron containing a large proportion of combined carbon. -- White iron pyrites (Min.), marcasite. -- White land, a tough clayey soil, of a whitish hue when dry, but blackish after rain. [Eng.] -- White lark (Zoöl.), the snow bunting. -- White lead. (a) A carbonate of lead much used in painting, and for other purposes; ceruse. (b) (Min.) Native lead carbonate; cerusite. -- White leather, buff leather; leather tanned with alum and salt. -- White leg (Med.), milk leg. See under Milk. -- White lettuce (Bot.), rattlesnake root. See under Rattlesnake. -- White lie. See under Lie. -- White light. (a) (Physics) Light having the different colors in the same proportion as in the light coming directly from the sun, without having been decomposed, as by passing through a prism. See the Note under Color, n., 1. (b) A kind of firework which gives a brilliant white illumination for signals, etc. -- White lime, a solution or preparation of lime for whitewashing; whitewash. -- White line (Print.), a void space of the breadth of a line, on a printed page; a blank line. -- White meat. (a) Any light-colored flesh, especially of poultry. Food made from milk or eggs, as butter, cheese, etc. Driving their cattle continually with them, and feeding only upon their milk and white meats. Spenser. -- White merganser (Zoöl.), the smew. -- White metal. (a) Any one of several white alloys, as pewter, britannia, etc. (b) (Metal.) A fine grade of copper sulphide obtained at a certain stage in copper smelting. -- White miller. (Zoöl.) (a) The common clothes moth. (b) A common American bombycid moth (Spilosoma Virginica) which is pure white with a few small black spots; -- called also ermine moth, and virgin moth. See Woolly bear, under Woolly. -- White money, silver money. -- White mouse (Zoöl.), the albino variety of the common mouse. -- White mullet (Zoöl.), a silvery mullet (Mugil curema) ranging from the coast of the United States to Brazil; -- called also blue- back mullet, and liza. -- White nun (Zoöl.), the smew; -- so called from the white crest and the band of black feathers on the back of its head, which give the appearance of a hood. -- White oak. (Bot.) See under Oak. -- White owl. (Zoöl.) (a) The snowy owl. (b) The barn owl. -- White partridge (Zoöl.), the white ptarmigan. -- White perch. (Zoöl.) (a) A North American fresh-water bass (Morone Americana) valued as a food fish. (b) The croaker, or fresh- water drum. (c) Any California surf fish. -- White pine. (Bot.) See the Note under Pine. -- White poplar (Bot.), a European tree (Populus alba) often cultivated as a shade tree in America; abele. -- White poppy (Bot.), the opium-yielding poppy. See Poppy. -- White powder, a kind of gunpowder formerly believed to exist, and to have the power of exploding without noise. [Obs.] A pistol charged with white powder. Beau. & Fl. -- White precipitate. (Old Chem.) See under Precipitate. -- White rabbit. (Zoöl.) (a) The American northern hare in its winter pelage. (b) An albino rabbit. -- White rent, (a) (Eng. Law) Formerly, rent payable in silver; -- opposed to black rent. See Blackmail, n., 3. (b) A rent, or duty, of eight pence, payable yearly by every tinner in Devon and Cornwall to the Duke of Cornwall, as lord of the soil. [Prov. Eng.] -- White rhinoceros. (Zoöl.) (a) The one-horned, or Indian, rhinoceros (Rhinoceros Indicus). See Rhinoceros. (b) The umhofo. -- White ribbon, the distinctive badge of certain organizations for the promotion of temperance or of moral purity; as, the White-ribbon Army. -- White rope (Naut.), untarred hemp rope. -- White rot. (Bot.) (a) Either of several plants, as marsh pennywort and butterwort, which were thought to produce the disease called rot in sheep. (b) A disease of grapes. See White rot, under Rot. -- White sage (Bot.), a white, woolly undershrub (Eurotia lanata) of Western North America; -- called also winter fat. -- White salmon (Zoöl.), the silver salmon. -- White salt, salt dried and calcined; decrepitated salt. -- White scale (Zoöl.), a scale insect (Aspidiotus Nerii) injurious to the orange tree. See Orange scale, under Orange. -- White shark (Zoöl.), a species of man-eating shark. See under Shark. -- White softening. (Med.) See Softening of the brain, under Softening. -- White spruce. (Bot.) See Spruce, n., 1. -- White squall (Naut.), a sudden gust of wind, or furious blow, which comes up without being marked in its approach otherwise than by whitecaps, or white, broken water, on the surface of the sea. -- White staff, the badge of the lord high treasurer of England. Macaulay. -- White stork (Zoöl.), the common European stork. -- White sturgeon. (Zoöl.) See Shovelnose (d). -- White sucker. (Zoöl.) (a) The common sucker. (b) The common red horse (Moxostoma macrolepidotum). -- White swelling (Med.), a chronic swelling of the knee, produced by a strumous inflammation of the synovial membranes of the kneejoint and of the cancellar texture of the end of the bone forming the kneejoint; -- applied also to a lingering chronic swelling of almost any kind. -- White tombac. See Tombac. -- White trout (Zoöl.), the white weakfish, or silver squeteague (Cynoscion nothus), of the Southern United States. -- White vitriol (Chem.), hydrous sulphate of zinc. See White vitriol, under Vitriol. -- White wagtail (Zoöl.), the common, or pied, wagtail. -- White wax, beeswax rendered white by bleaching. -- White whale (Zoöl.), the beluga. -- White widgeon (Zoöl.), the smew. -- White wine. any wine of a clear, transparent color, bordering on white, as Madeira, sherry, Lisbon, etc.; -- distinguished from wines of a deep red color, as port and Burgundy. "White wine of Lepe." Chaucer. -- White witch, a witch or wizard whose supernatural powers are supposed to be exercised for good and beneficent purposes. Addison. Cotton Mather. -- White wolf. (Zoöl.) (a) A light-colored wolf (Canis laniger) native of Thibet; -- called also chanco, golden wolf, and Thibetan wolf. (b) The albino variety of the gray wolf. -- White wren (Zoöl.), the willow warbler; -- so called from the color of the under parts.

The color of pure snow; one of the natural colors of bodies, yet not strictly a color, but a composition of all colors; the opposite of black; whiteness. See the Note under Color, n., 1. Finely attired in a of white. Shak. Something having the color of snow; something white, or nearly so; as, the white of the eye. Specifically, the central part of the butt in archery, which was formerly painted white; the center of a mark at which a missile is shot. 'T was I won the wager, though you hit the white. Shak. A person with a white skin; a member of the white, or Caucasian, races of men. A white pigment; as, Venice white. Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to Pieris, and allied genera in which the color is usually white. See Cabbage butterfly, under Cabbage. Black and white. See under Black. -- Flake white, Paris white, etc. See under Flack, Paris, etc. -- White of a seed (Bot.), the albumen. See Albumen, 2. -- White of egg, the viscous pellucid fluid which surrounds the yolk in an egg, particularly in the egg of a fowl. In a hen's egg it is alkaline, and contains about 86 per cent of water and 14 per cent of solid matter, the greater portion of which is egg albumin. It likewise contains a small amount of globulin, and traces of fats and sugar, with some inorganic matter. Heated above 60º C. it coagulates to a solid mass, owing to the albumin which it contains. Parr. -- White of the eye (Anat.), the white part of the ball of the eye surrounding the transparent cornea.

To make white; to whiten; to whitewash; to bleach. Whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of . . . uncleanness. Matt. xxiii. 27. So as no fuller on earth can white them. Mark. ix. 3.

The color of snow or milk; the color of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths. | A person of European descent with light-colored skin. | Any butterfly of the subfamily Pierinae in the family Pieridae. | White wine. | White coffee | Ellipsis of white bread | Any object or substance that is of the color white. | The albumen of bird eggs (egg white). | Any object or substance that is of the color white. | The sclera, white of the eye. | Any object or substance that is of the color white. | The cue ball in cue games. | Any object or substance that is of the color white. | Cocaine. | Any object or substance that is of the color white. | The snow- or ice-covered "green" in snow golf. | Any object or substance that is of the color white. | A white pigment. | Any object or substance that is of the color white. | A white bean. | The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot. | The enclosed part of a letter of the alphabet, especially when handwritten. | A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade. | The person playing with the white set of pieces.

To make white; to whiten; to bleach.

A common British and Irish surname transferred from the nickname. | A locale in the United States: | A minor city in Bartow County, Georgia; named for its first postmaster. | A locale in the United States: | A city in South Dakota; named for its first European settler. | A locale in the United States: | An unincorporated community in Washington; named for a Washington state judge. | A locale in the United States: | A ghost town in Missouri; named for a local mining official.