DCHP-1 Online
white fox 
1 a smallish fox, Alopex lagopus, of the northern regions, white in winter but blue-gray to brownish at other times.
See also: Arctic fox
- 1696 (1929) "3 indians came to the fort one of which was the french Captain they brought nothing but 2 white fox skins."
- 1749 In the Beginning of the Month, the white Foxes began to appear in great Plenty; and many of them were catched.
- 1862 White Foxes have been killed on the south shore of Great Slave Lake, and a single blue one on the North shore.
- 1963 Eskimos trap white foxes, but he said he had received word that at one point only four foxes had been taken. . . .
2 the commercially valuable fur of this fox.
- 1784 (1954) Recd. one white Fox the first I have got this year. . . .
- 1820 (1823) A silver fox, white fox, or otter, are reckoned two beavers and a black fox, or large black bear are equal to four.
- 1964 . . . the price of white fox has risen to $25 from $10 in the 1950's.
- 1696 (1929) "3 indians came to the fort one of which was the french Captain they brought nothing but 2 white fox skins."