Definition of "white-faced" []

• Having a pale face; pallid. (adjective)
• Having a white face or a white patch extending from the muzzle to the forehead: a white-faced antelope; white-faced cattle. (adjective)

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.

• "He was sitting on the couch, white-faced, one sea-boot in his hands, and I could have sworn his hands were shaking."
• "People slipped by silently, furtively, like ghosts -- white-faced women carrying infants in their arms; fathers leading children by the hand; singly, and in couples, and in families-all fleeing out of the city of death."
• "At half after five I went below to set the cabin table, but I hardly knew what I did, for my eyes and my brain were filled with the vision of a man, white-faced and trembling, comically like a bug, clinging to the thrashing gaff."