Face , v. i. 1. To
carry a false appearance; to play the hypocrite. "To lie, to face, to forge." Spenser.
2.
To turn the face; as,
to face to the right
or left.
Face about, man; a
soldier, and afraid!
Dryden.
3. To present a face or front.
Face (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Faced (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Facing
(?).]
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.
2. To Confront impudently; to bully.
I will neither be facednor braved.
Shak. 3. To stand opposite to; to stand with the face
or front toward; to front upon; as, the apartments of the general faced the park.
He gained also with his forces that part of
Britain which faces Ireland.
Milton. 4. To cover in front, for ornament, protection,
etc.; to put a
facing upon; as, a building faced with marble.
5. To line near the
edge, esp. with a different material; as, to face the front of
a coat, or the bottom of
a dress.
6. To cover with better, or better appearing, material
than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the surface of a
box of tea,
a barrel of
sugar, etc.
7.
(Mach.) To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); esp., in turning, to shape or smooth the flat surface of, as distinguished from the cylindrical surface.
8. To cause to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction.
To
face down, to put down by bold or impudent opposition. "He faced men down." Prior. -- To face (a thing) 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 (?), n. [F., from L. facies form, shape, face, perh. from facere to make (see Fact); or perh. orig. meaning appearance, and from a root meaning to shine, and akin to E. fancy. Cf. Facetious.]
1. The exterior form or appearance of anything; that part which presents itself to the
view; especially, the front or
upper part or surface; that which particularly offers itself to the
view of a spectator.
A mist . . . watered the whole face of the
ground.
Gen.
ii. 6. Lake Leman wooes me with its crystal face.
Byron.
2. That part of a body, having several sides, which may be seen from one point, or which is presented toward a certain direction; one of the bounding planes of a solid; as, a cube has six faces.
3.
(Mach.) (a) The principal dressed surface of a
plate, disk, or pulley; the principal flat surface of a part or object. (b) That part of the acting surface of a cog in a cog wheel, which projects beyond the pitch line. (c) The width of a pulley, or the length of
a cog from end to end; as, a pulley or cog wheel
of ten inches face.
4. (Print.) (a)
The upper surface, or the character upon the surface, of a
type, plate, etc.
(b) The style or cut
of a type or font of type.
5. Outside appearance; surface show; look; external aspect, whether natural, assumed, or acquired.
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.
6. That part of the head, esp. of man, in which
the eyes, cheeks, nose, and mouth are
situated; visage; countenance.
In the sweat
of thy face shalt thou eat bread.
Gen. iii.
19. 7. Cast of features; expression of countenance; look; air; appearance.
We set the best faceon it we could.
Dryden.
8. (Astrol.) Ten
degrees in extent of a sign of the zodiac. Chaucer.
9. Maintenance of the countenance free from abashment or confusion; confidence; boldness;
shamelessness; effrontery.
This is the man that
has the face to charge others with false citations.
Tillotson.
10. Presence; sight; front; as in the
phrases, before the face of, in
the immediate presence of; in the face of, before, in, or against the front of; as,
to fly in
the face of danger; to the face of, directly to; from the
face of, from the presence of.
11. Mode of regard, whether favorable or unfavorable; favor or anger; mostly in Scriptural
phrases.
The Lord make his
face to shine upon thee.
Num. vi. 25.
My face [favor] will I
turn also from them.
Ezek.
vii. 22. 12. (Mining) The end or wall of the tunnel, drift, or excavation, at which work
is progressing or was last done.
13. (Com.) The exact amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, or
other mercantile paper, without any addition for interest or reduction for discount.
McElrath.
&fist; 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 (Med.),
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 (Arch.), a joint in the face of a wall or other structure. --
Face mite
(Zoöll.), a small, elongated mite (Demdex
folliculorum), 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) (Turning)
A plate attached to the spindle of a
lathe, to which the work to be
turned may be attached.
(b) A covering plate for an object, to receive wear or shock. (c) A true plane for testing a
dressed surface. Knight. -- Face wheel. (Mach.) (a) A crown wheel. (b) A Wheel whose disk face is
adapted for grinding and polishing; a lap.
Cylinder face (Steam Engine), 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 (Fort.),
the part between the salient and the shoulder angle. -- Face of coal (Mining), 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
(Fort.), the front comprehended between the flanked angles of two neighboring bastions. Wilhelm. --
Face of a
square (Mil.), 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. (a) In the presence of each other; as, to bring the accuser and the accused face to face. (b) Without the interposition of any body or substance. "Now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face." 1 Cor. xiii. 12.
(c) With the faces or finished surfaces turned inward or toward one another; vis à 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.
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