The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Whiting \Whit"ing\, n. [From White.]
[1913 Webster]
1. (Zool.)
(a) A common European food fish (Melangus vulgaris) of
the Codfish family; -- called also fittin.
(b) A North American fish (Merlucius vulgaris) allied to
the preceding; -- called also silver hake.
(c) Any one of several species of North American marine
sciaenoid food fishes belonging to genus
Menticirrhus, especially Menticirrhus Americanus,
found from Maryland to Brazil, and Menticirrhus
littoralis, common from Virginia to Texas; -- called
also silver whiting, and surf whiting.
[1913 Webster]
Note: Various other fishes are locally called whiting, as the
kingfish
(a), the sailor's choice
(b), the Pacific tomcod, and certain species of lake
whitefishes.
[1913 Webster]
2. Chalk prepared in an impalpable powder by pulverizing and
repeated washing, used as a pigment, as an ingredient in
putty, for cleaning silver, etc.
[1913 Webster]
Whiting pollack. (Zool.) Same as Pollack.
Whiting pout (Zool.), the bib, 2.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bib \Bib\, n. [From Bib, v., because the bib receives the
drink that the child slavers from the mouth.]
1. A small piece of cloth worn by children over the breast,
to protect the clothes.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Zool.) An arctic fish (Gadus luscus), allied to the
cod; -- called also pout and whiting pout.
[1913 Webster]
3. A bibcock.
[1913 Webster] Bib