Definition of "white walnut" []

• See butternut. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "-- Take of gulver root 1 1-4 pounds; Indian physic 1 1-2 pounds; milk-weed root 1 1-4 pounds; highland big leaf 3-4 of a pound; black ash bark 3-4 of a pound; black walnut bark 1-2 pound; white walnut bark 15 pounds."
• "-- Take any desirable quantity of white walnut bark, to every fifteen pounds of this bark add 1-2 pound of gulver root and a half pound of Indian physic, boil all the ingredients until the strength is extracted, strain and continue boiling to the consistence of molasses, then cool and bottle for use."