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A mist . . . watered the whole face of the ground.
Gen. ii. 6.
Lake Leman wooes me with its crystal face.
Byron.
To set a face upon their own malignant design.
Milton.
This would produce a new face of things in Europe.
Addison.
We wear a face of joy, because We have been glad of yore.
Wordsworth.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.
Gen. iii. 19.
We set the best faceon it we could.
Dryden.
This is the man that has the face to charge others with false citations.
Tillotson.
The Lord make his face to shine upon thee.
Num. vi. 25.
My face will I turn also from them.
Ezek. vii. 22.
Face is used either adjectively or as part of a compound; as, face guard or face-guard; face cloth; face plan or face-plan; face hammer.
Face ague , a form of neuralgia, characterized by acute lancinating pains returning at intervals, and by twinges in certain parts of the face, producing convulsive twitches in the corresponding muscles; -- called also tic douloureux. -- Face card, one of a pack of playing cards on which a human face is represented; the king, queen, or jack. -- Face cloth, a cloth laid over the face of a corpse. -- Face guard, a mask with windows for the eyes, worn by workman exposed to great heat, or to flying particles of metal, stone, etc., as in glass works, foundries, etc. -- Face hammer, a hammer having a flat face. -- Face joint , a joint in the face of a wall or other structure. -- Face mite , a small, elongated mite , parasitic in the hair follicles of the face. -- Face mold, the templet or pattern by which carpenters, ect., outline the forms which are to be cut out from boards, sheet metal, ect. -- Face plate. A plate attached to the spindle of a lathe, to which the work to be turned may be attached. A covering plate for an object, to receive wear or shock. A true plane for testing a dressed surface. Knight. -- Face wheel. A crown wheel. A Wheel whose disk face is adapted for grinding and polishing; a lap.
Cylinder face , the flat part of a steam cylinder on which a slide valve moves. -- Face of an anvil, its flat upper surface. -- Face of a bastion , the part between the salient and the shoulder angle. -- Face of coal , the principal cleavage plane, at right angles to the stratification. -- Face of a gun, the surface of metal at the muzzle. -- Face of a place , the front comprehended between the flanked angles of two neighboring bastions. Wilhelm. -- Face of a square , one of the sides of a battalion when formed in a square. -- Face of a watch, clock, compass, card etc., the dial or graduated surface on which a pointer indicates the time of day, point of the compass, etc. -- Face to face. In the presence of each other; as, to bring the accuser and the accused face to face. Without the interposition of any body or substance. "Now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face." 1 Cor. xiii. 12. With the faces or finished surfaces turned inward or toward one another; vis ? vis; -- opposed to back to back. -- To fly in the face of, to defy; to brave; to withstand. -- To make a face, to distort the countenance; to make a grimace. Shak.
Face , v. t. 1. To meet in front; to oppose with firmness; to resist, or to meet for the purpose of stopping or opposing; to confront; to encounter; as, to face an enemy in the field of battle.
I'll face This tempest, and deserve the name of king.
Dryden.
I will neither be facednor braved.
Shak.
He gained also with his forces that part of Britain which faces Ireland.
Milton.
To face down, to put down by bold or impudent opposition. "He faced men down." Prior. -- To face out, to persist boldly or impudently in an assertion or in a line of conduct. "That thinks with oaths to face the matter out." Shak.
Face, v. i. 1. To carry a false appearance; to play the hypocrite. "To lie, to face, to forge." Spenser.
Face about, man; a soldier, and afraid!
Dryden.
Faced , a. Having a face, or faces; as, smooth-faced, two- faced.
Fa"cer , n. 1. One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person.
There be no greater talkers, nor boasters, nor fasers.
Latimer.
I should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had hollowed when I got a facer.
C. Kingsley.
Fac"et , n. 1. A little face; a small, plane surface; as, the facets of a diamond.
Fac"et, v. t. To cut facets or small faces upon; as, to facet a diamond.
"How to interpose" with a small, smart remark, sentiment facete, or unctuous anecdote.
Prof. Wilson.
Face"work` , n. The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building; facing.
Facial angle , the angle, in a skull, included between a straight line , from the most prominent part of the forehead to the front efge of the upper jaw bone, and another from this point to the center of the external auditory opening. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic.
Fa"cient , n. 1. One who does anything, good or bad; a doer; an agent. Bp. Hacket.
The terms facient, faciend, and factum, may imply that the multiplication involved is not ordinary multiplication, but is either some specified operation, or, in general, any mathematical operation. See Multiplication.
Facies Hippocratica. See Hippocratic.
Fac"ile a. 1. Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor.
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