Definition of "white-handed" [white-handed]

• Having white hands.
• Having pure, unstained hands; not tainted with guilt.
• In zoöl, having the fore paws white: as, the white-handed gibbon, Hylobates lar. See cut under gibbon.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "A death for Achilles, and the divine maidens of Patmos to mourn him, to harp white-handed sorrow on their golden hair."
• "Meanwhile, at the Honolulu zoo yesterday, according to a pool report, the president, several adults and a bunch of kids visited the elephants late in the day and then strolled up to a pair of white-handed gibbons and some ruffed lemurs."
• "Apparently, the tiger was able to leap over the fence surrounding its enclosure after being stirred into an excited frenzy by a white-handed gibbon that had escaped its own pen as a result of both mechanical and human error."