Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A skin lesion consisting of a hair follicle that is occluded with sebum and keratin, appearing white at the surface.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The white-headed scoter or surf-scoter, a duck, Œdemia perspicillata. See cut under
Pelionetta . - noun A breed of domestic pigeons with the head and tail white; a white-tailed monk.
- noun The blue wavey. or blue-winged snow-goose, Chen cærulescens. See
goose . - noun The broom-bush, Parthenium Hysterophorus. Also called
bastard feverfew and West Indian mugwort. - noun A small and rare oscinine bird, Clitonyx albicilla, peculiar to the North Island, New Zealand, and threatened with extinction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The blue-winged snow goose.
- noun The surf scoter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
pimple formed by a cloggedsebaceous gland , usually with a milky-white cap. - noun The blue-winged snow goose.
- noun The surf scoter.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Bertrand Russell (1861-1947)
- noun a small whitish lump in the skin due to a clogged sebaceous gland
Etymologies
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Examples
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But top honors go to 30 Rock, as Jack Donaghy declares NBC "to be the engorged whitehead on the otherwise flawless face of Universal Media."
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Nothing like an exploded whitehead magnified 7x to scare you into washing your face. doublebanker Says:
Ewww. Awesome. 2009
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Does he periodically examine you under a bright light or preferably in sunlight, with a thermometer in hand to gauge the level of your softness down there, checking you for any sprouting blackhead, whitehead, or pimple do these even appear down there? or, horror of horrors, imagine an extra out-of-place, unruly, curly hair.
Dora Levy Mossanen: A Bottle of Wine or a Vagacial, that's the Question Dora Levy Mossanen 2011
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Does he periodically examine you under a bright light or preferably in sunlight, with a thermometer in hand to gauge the level of your softness down there, checking you for any sprouting blackhead, whitehead, or pimple do these even appear down there? or, horror of horrors, imagine an extra out-of-place, unruly, curly hair.
Dora Levy Mossanen: A Bottle of Wine or a Vagacial, that's the Question Dora Levy Mossanen 2011
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As we made out, I couldn't help noticing a whitehead on his back.
Celebrating a Cult Classic Mike Vilensky 2011
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Filed under: Politics, on writing, science fiction, space | Tagged: adam whitehead, chung kuo, corvus, david wingrove, son of heaven, vol 1 out 2011
Chung Kuo Vol 1: Son of Heaven update « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS 2010
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I suggest you vote after you stop being angry, or you will only make things worse. oscar whitehead
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Another whitehead racist who wants to keep the white house white.
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