The Collaborative International Dictionary
White-face \White"-face`\, n. A white mark in the forehead of a horse, descending almost to the nose; -- called also white-blaze.
Usage examples of "white-face".
Andrew Cabot, on his feet, holding on to the chair-back in front of him where Mason Broyles sat, white-faced and grim, and beaten.
So Ralph looked, and saw in sooth a man drawing nigh, who came straight up to them and lowted to them, and then stood before them waiting for their word: he was fat and somewhat short, white-faced and pink-cheeked, with yellow hair long and curling, and with a little thin red beard and blue eyes: altogether much unlike the fashion of men of those parts.
White-faced, Phoria dropped to one knee and raised a fist to her chest in salute.
Was she really rising now, with weak legs and empty contracting stomach and stuttering heart, and moving along the pew to take her position in the center of the aisle, and setting out her reasons, her just causes, in a defiant untrembling voice as she advanced in her cape and headdress, like a bride of Christ, toward the altar, toward the openmouthed vicar who had never before in his long career been interrupted, toward the congregation of twisted necks, and the half-turned white-faced couple?
Beth jumped up, white-faced, and I told her to get the emergency Medihaler from the drawer, then took Kate into the bacchante room and laid her on the sofa.
One of the remaining two went around and got in the other side, while the last stopped to look at Baumer, who was standing tense and white-faced.
Shocked to white-faced incredulity, Lord Diegan rounded upon the prince.
Two of them had been on the foredeck when the Biter boys had come on board, and to tell the truth they looked pretty sick, while the other four rounded up by Sankey had been let go again, two white-faced and yonderly, one aged sixty if a day, the last one with one arm and a twisted leg.
When he dropped down the slope onto the ledge where Yasmeena stood, white-faced and her nails biting into her pink palms, the Kirghiz had not yet appeared.
In dreams he wandered again in that dark, hideous world where staring, white-faced herds shuffled pathetically through the rotting mosses of endless caverns.
So they drove away and left a white-faced woman watching them from the door, her heart a little sorer than usual.
When the white-face put his hat back on, he was dissatisfied with its placement, and bade Zanni hold the mirror for him.
There could not possibly have been a signal between them, but, when the white-face slowly, furtively turned his head to look at the mirror over his shoulder, there was Zanni looking just as suspiciously back at him.
Some of the older chieftains were as angry at Wind Made by Wings as they were at the white-faced people, because he was making them ashamed of themselves and challenging them to resist the powerful intruders.
Steve looked up to see a white-faced sailor staring at the twisted, mangled leg. He exchanged glances with Ricardo as the sailor, instinctively, crossed himself at the sight.