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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Marked with white, as various animals.

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Examples

  • The lights dipped in response, and when it was past, when she was as certain as she could be that no one was watching, she reached underneath the white-marked stone for the papers she had told Agent Steinberg in Phoenix she needed.

    A Darker Place King, Laurie R. 1999

  • He reached the terrace, grabbed the pipe with his left hand, and kicked his way vertical, timing it so perfectly that he slowed to a stop just as he reached the white-marked panel.

    Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

  • In the East injury is confined largely to certain caterpillars infesting the foliage, as the white-marked tussock moth, the fall webworm, a species of _Datana_, and occasionally reports of severe injury from red spider are received.

    Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913

  • The corpse was borne next, after which followed about a dozen more warriors, most of whom carried the white-marked shield -- an emblem of mourning.

    The Bontoc Igorot Albert Ernest Jenks 1911

  • His honest sonsie, bawsent face [pleasant, white-marked]

    Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

  • The surface of the wings is, in both, transparent yellowish, with black transverse bands and white marginal spots, while both have similar black-and white-marked bodies and long yellow antennae.

    Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

  • Now in all the islands in which exceptionally white-marked birds and butterflies have been observed, we find two features which would tend to render the conspicuous white markings less injurious -- a luxuriant tropical vegetation, and a decided scarcity of rapacious mammals and birds.

    Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

  • When he stood on the close-mown lawn within the white-marked square of tennis and faced the net, his jacket was barred or striped with scarlet.

    Hodge and His Masters Richard Jefferies 1867

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