WHITE, WHITEN, WHITENESS, WHITENING (colour)
ADJECTIVES
1616 — CANDIDATE clothed in white → poetic usage, obs.
1623 — NIXIOUS white as snow, snowy → obs.
1630 — CANDID white → obs.
1657 — CANDICANT growing white; inclining to white, whitish → obs.
1681 — SULLIED WHITE dirty white
1847 — CANESCENT rather hoary; greyish or dull white, like the down or hairs on the leaves of plants
1880 — BALDHEADED hairless, bare; hence, shining white → US sl.
1888 — IVORINE white and smooth like ivory
1893 — HEREFORD white → US cowboy usage
1953 — WHITE AS A BABY’S ASS very white → Amer. sl.
1978 — CHUCK white → African-American sl.
1981 — CANESCENT becoming white → Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
NOUNS
1523 — BALL a white streak or spot, as on an animal → obs.
1607 — DEALBATION the act of whitening, blanching, bleaching
1634 — CANDOUR brilliant whiteness; brilliancy → obs.
1656 — CANITUDE hoariness, whiteness → obs.
1731 — CANDICANCY a whitening or making fair
..19C — BACKRA — BUCKRA white as a colour
1855 — CANESCENCE hoariness, dull whiteness
1880 — CANDESCENCE dazzling whiteness or brightness
1897 — HEREFORD something having a white front → Amer. dial.
VERBS
1623 — CANDICATE to grow white → obs.
1623 — DEALBATE to whiten → obs.
1628 — CANDIDATE to make white; to whitewash (fig.) → obs.
1656 — CANDEFY — CANIFY to make or become white → obs.