lividness

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Pale and livid combs are as certain a sign of bad health in fowls, as the paleness or lividness of the lips is in human beings.

From Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. by Piper, Hugh

A rapid flowed into the head of it, and the lines of froth shone with a strange lividness.

From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Bindloss, Harold

Cy′anite, a mineral composed of alumina and silica, generally sky-blue; Cyanom′eter, an instrument for measuring the degrees of blueness of the sky or ocean; Cyanō′sis, morbid lividness of the skin, blue jaundice.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

He still stands under the wintry tree, white to lividness; drops of cold sweat stand on his brows; and his fine nostrils dilate and contract, dilate and contract, in an agony of anger and shame.

From Nancy by Broughton, Rhoda

Von Holtz’s pallor changed subtly from the pallor of fear to the awful lividness of rage.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 by Various