whitelead

Noun

white lead (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Tin, golden marcasite.
   • It is not amiſs here to give the differences betwixt white Lead, or Tin, Biſmuth, Tin-glaſs, or aſh-coloured Lead, and this common Lead, which they call black Lead;1671, John Webster, Metallographia: Or, an history of metals., London, page 271
2. A basic lead carbonate, particularly (historical) as once widely used for white paint, whitening cosmetics, and early medicine.
   • The beginning of a new episode of work for Bradly was an agitated niggling over six-by-four squares of cardboard coated with size and white lead, prepared by himself to save an experimental waste of canvas.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 40

   Synonyms:

   lead white, flake white, silver white, slate white, ceruse, Venetian ceruse, Venetian white, white poison