单词 | white-faced |
释义 | white-facedadj. 1. Of an animal: having a white or pale face. Frequently in names of birds and mammals. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [adjective] > streaked or marked with white > having a white head > having a white face white-faced?1570 white-face1667 ?1570 I. P. Meruaylous Straunge Deformed Swyne (single sheet) Som white faste Lambs. 1630 J. Taylor Wit & Mirth (new ed.) lxxix, in Wks. 190/2 He gaue the white-fac'd Calfe the Lyons stile. 1636 in G. F. Dow Probate Rec. Essex County, Mass. (1916) I. 8 A white faced yearling, 9li. 1743 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman June 85 It is both these sorts of Western Farmers, who make it their Business to get a right Kind of white-faced large Ewes. 1781 T. Pennant Hist. Quadrupeds I. 82 White-faced [Antelope]. 1829 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom VIII. 624 White-faced Duck. 1881 P. L. Sclater Jacamars & Puff-birds 153 The Peruvian White-faced Nunbird seems to be an abundant and generally distributed species in Upper Amazonia. 1901 Spectator 17 Aug. 215/2 The marsh..is dotted with white-fleeced sheep and white-faced bullocks grazing on the saltings. 1975 Winnipeg Free Press 21 June (New Leisure section)17/1 One of these sightings was of the white-faced ibis. 2002 Dartmoor Visitor Summer 10/2 The breeds of sheep most favoured are Scotch Blackface, infused with other UK hill breeds, and a smattering of the local Whitefaced Dartmoor. 2. Of a person: having a white or pale face, esp. as a result of illness, fear, or shock. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [adjective] blatec1000 whiteOE greena1275 blakec1275 bleykea1300 wana1300 palec1330 bleach1340 pale and wan (wan and pale)c1374 colourlessc1380 deadlyc1385 deadc1386 bloodlessc1450 earthlyc1460 ruddylessc1460 wan visaged?a1513 wanny1555 as pale or white as a clout1557 bleak1566 mealy1566 pale-faced1570 ghastly1574 white-faced1577 bleakish1581 pallid1590 whiggish1590 tallow-faced1592 maid-pale1597 lily1600 whey-colour1602 lew1611 roseless1611 Hippocratical1615 cadaverousa1661 Hippocratic1681 smock-faced1684 white-looked1690 livid1728 as white (or pale) as a sheet1752 squalid1753 deathly1791 etiolated1791 light-skinned1802 suety1803 shilpit1813 blanched1828 tallowy1830 suet-faced1834 pasty1836 tallowish1838 whey-faced1847 pasty-faced1848 aghast1850 waxen1853 complexionless1863 light-skin1877 lily-cheeked1877 lardy1879 wan-faced1881 exsanguinous1889 wheatish1950 1577 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Chron. 377 Heliogabalus was of meane stature, redde haired, white faced, small mouthed, shorte legged, and largely, bearded. 1622 T. Dekker & P. Massinger Virgin Martir ii. i. sig. Dv That white-fac'd Monkie, frights me to, I stole but a durty pudding last day out of an almsebasket, to giue my dogge when he was hungry, and the peaking chitface page hit me ith' teeth with it. 1766 T. Amory Life John Buncle II. xi. 382 Curl was in person very tall and thin, an ungainly, aukward, white-faced man. 1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son III. xxxi. 208 A little white-faced, slimly-formed sickly girl. 1888 J. W. Clampitt Echoes from Rocky Mountains xxxviii. 553 Wife and children had been startled from slumber to grow white-faced with fear. 1965 Look 10 Aug. 38/1 The shopkeeper and his wife were white-faced, trembly. 2005 H. Mantel Beyond Black ii. 5 White-faced fucking freak. She's like a bloody ghoul. Where did you get her, gel, a churchyard? 3. Esp. of a geographical feature or landmark: having a distinctive white face or surface. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 23 That white-fac'd shore. View more context for this quotation 1779 J. Hanway Seaman's Christian Friend ii. 39 You dance upon the swelling tide, or combat the fierce winds, which dash the foaming billows against our white-faced shores. 1835 Richmond (Indiana) Palladium 15 Aug. 1/6 The great white-faced, caseless clock..was the wonder of each and several of the neighbors. 1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine vi. 255 The white-faced hill..is the ‘Blanche Garde’ of the Crusading chroniclers. 1907 Coast Brit. Colombia U.S. Hydrographic Office (ed. 2) iii. 145 As soon as the strait is entered from the southward, Roberts point will show its eastern part as a bold, white-faced cliff. 2012 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 5 July l.3 I..gaze back at..the white-faced cliffs of the Apuan Alps. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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