ppl. a. Now rare or arch.
I. [f. WHITE v.1 + -ED1.]
1. Covered or coated with white; spec. (a) plastered over with white, whitewashed, as a wall, building, etc.; now chiefly in the biblical phr. whited sepulchre (Matt. xxiii. 27) used allusively; † (b) of metal, tinned or silvered; also occas. gen., e.g., of land covered with snow.
1340. Ayenb., 228. Huo þet is yhol of bodie and uoul ine herte is ase þe berieles yhuited.
1388. Wyclif, Acts xxiii. 3. Thanne Poul seide to hym, Thou whitid wal, God smyte thee.
1552. Huloet, Whyghted or paynted with white leade, cerustatus.
1645. Milton, Hor. Ep., I. xvi. 40, in Tetrach., 39. But his owne house, and the whole neighbourhood Sees his foule inside through his whited skin.
1669. Sturmy, Mariner’s Mag., Penalties & Forfeit., 2. Iron Wyre, or whited Wyre, are forfeited if any such be Imported.
1733. Pope, Donne’s Sat., IV. 151. He tells … What Lady’s face is not a whited wall.
1764. Dodsley, Leasowes, in Shenstone’s Wks. (1777), II. 305. A whited village among trees.
1850. Kingsley, Alton Locke, iv. This old whited sepulchre, society.
1867. Emerson, May-day, 104. The whited desert knew me not, Snow-ridges masked each darling spot.
2. Whitened by deprivation of color; spec. bleached, as cloth; also, peeled so as to expose the white interior.
1529. Dunmow Churchw. MS., lf. 10 b. xxv. ells of whytyd normvndy at vi d the ell.
1692. Lond. Gaz., No. 2814/4. A considerable quantity of Whited Linen.
1794. Trans. Soc. Arts, XII. 139. About a load and a half whited osiers.
1897. P. Warung, Tales Old Regime, 205. John Donnell,… brown complexion,… whited raised spot on lower part of right eye.
† 3. Whited brown (of paper); whitish brown, whity-brown. Obs.
1720. Lett. Lond. Jrnl. (1721), 11. Having put up my Books [etc.] in a Sheet of whited-brown Paper.
1845. G. Dodd, Brit. Manuf., Ser. VI. 18.
II. [f. WHITE sb. 1 + -ED2.]
4. Of an egg: Having white or albumen (of a specified kind). rare–1.
1599. T. M[oufet], Silkwormes, 66. Whited alike, and yellow yolked all.
