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Face
FACE, n. [L., to make.]
1. In a general sense, the surface of a thing, or the side which presents itself to the view of a spectator; as the face of the earth; the face of the waters.
2. A part of the surface of a thing; or the plane surface of a solid. Thus, a cube or die has six faces an octahedron has eight faces.
3. The surface of the fore part of an animals head, particularly of the human head; the visage.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread. Gen 3.
Joseph bowed himself with his face to the earth. Gen 48.
4. Countenance; cast of features; look; air of the face.
We set the best face on it we could.
5. The front of a thing; the forepart; the flat surface that presents itself first to view; as the face of a house. Ezek 41.
6. Visible state; appearance.
This would produce a new face of things in Europe.
7. Appearance; look.
Nor heaven, nor sea, their former face retained.
His dialogue has the face of probability.
8. State of confrontation. The witnesses were presented face to face.
9. Confidence; boldness; impudence; a bold front.
He has the face to charge others with false citations.
10. Presence; sight; as in the phrases, before the face, in the face, to the face, from the face.
11. The person.
I had not thought to see thy face. Gen 48.
12. In scripture, face is used for anger or favor.
Hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne. Revelations 6.
Make thy face to shine on thy servant. Psa 31.
How long wilt thou hide thy face from me? Psa 8.
Hence, to seek the face, that is, to pray to, to seek the favor of.
To set the face against, is to oppose.
To accept ones face, is to show him favor or grant his request. So, to entreat the face, is to ask favor; but these phrases are nearly obsolete.
13. A distorted form of the face; as in the phrase, to make faces, or to make wry faces.
Face to face
1. When both parties are present; as, to have accusers face to face. Acts 25.
2. Nakedly; without the interposition of any other body.
Now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face. 1 Cor 13.
FACE, v.t.
1. To meet in front; to oppose with firmness; to resist, or to meet for the purpose of stopping or opposing; as, to face an enemy in the field of battle.
I'll face this tempest, and deserve the name of king.
2. To stand opposite to; to stand with the face or front towards. The colleges in New Haven face the public square.
3. To cover with additional superficies; to cover in front; as a fortification faced with marble; to face a garment with silk.
To face down, to oppose boldly or impudently.
FACE, v.i.
1. To carry a false appearance; to play the hypocrite.
To lie, to face, to forge.
2. To turn the face; as, to face to the right or left.
face appears in definitions for these words:
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About Abyss Accost Acne Adoration Advance Affair Affront Affronted Affrontee Affronting Altar Altern Amphihexahedral Annular Answer Antienneahedral Antiface Anvil Aplome Appear Archivault Arrest Aspect Astragal Baboon Back Backside Band Baptize Barefaced Bastion Beard Bearded Bearding Beauty Beauty-spot Beaver Bedew Before Bevelment Birhomboidal Bismuth Black Black-faced Blank Blaze Bloody-faced Blubber Blush Blushing Bold-face Bonnet Brass Brazen-face Bread Buffet Bulls-eye Burglary Burn Capuchins Carry Casemate Catoptromancy Cheek Chemise Cherub Chin Choler Chrisom Chub-faced Cleanse Clock-work Collet Color Come Complexion Composure Conceal Concealment Concession Confessor Configuration Confront Confronted Confronting Confusion Contortion Conversion Corbel Countenance Counter Counterguard Countermarch Courap Cover Cowardice Cowardly Cringe Cross Cross-stone Cunning Darkness Decrease Decrement Deface Defacing Deform Deject Deprive Depth Desire Die Dihedral Dim Dimple Disc Discus Disguise Disk Dispraise Dissimilarity Distortion Double-faced Dowse Draw Droll Dropsy Elephantiasis Emarginate Embalm Enchanting Encounter Encountered Enneacontahedral Epaulment Equidifferent Erysipelas Europe Eustyle Express Eye Face Facecloth Faced Faceless Facepainter Facet Facete Facetious Facial Facing Fair Fall Fan Fan-light Fasten Feasible Feature Feces Feculence Feculum Fine Flank Fleer Flirt Flush Flushed Flushing Fly Fore Forehead Formalist Fortune Foul Freckle Freckled Frecklefaced Frieze Front Frontispiece Frounce Full Full-faced Fur Furrow Furrowfaced Gantlet Gesture Get Ghastly Gibe Gloss Gorgon Green-sickness Grim Grind Grisly Grog Ground Grovel Guardant Half-faced Half-moon Handkerchief Handsome Hanging Hard Harden Harpy Hatchet-face Head Heat Hence Heptahexahedral Her Hide Hiding Hippocras Homely Horsefaced Hospitality Hypocritic Ibis Illeviable Image Impair Intrench Iron Keep Larboard Leer Left Leprosy Lift Line Lineament Look Lower Lozenge Lunet Majestic Make Mantle Mask Masked Meet Metoposcopy Mezzotinto Morphew Mouth Mow Muffle Muffled Muffler Muffling Multiply Natural Neb North Nose Obverse Octodecimal Octostyle Oppositely Orang-outang Ordinary Orillon Outbrazen Outlook Outstare Paint Pale Pale-faced Paper-faced Parallelopiped Parasol Pash Patch Pentahexahedral Phiz Physiognomicical Physiognomy Picture Pimple Pit Place Platband Platter-faced Pleonaste Portrait Preface Presence Present Prettiness Pretty Print Procumbent Profile Pronation Prone Proneness Proportion Prosenneahedral Prostration Prudish Pucker Put Pyrope Quadridecimal Quit Ravelin Read Recurrent Renew Repent Reproof Reprove Resupinate Retirade Retreat Revile Right Ringent Rouge Rub Ruddy Rumbud Rustic Saffron Scatter Scratch Screw Scurvy Seek Set Sexdecimal Shadowy Shame Shape Sharp-visaged Shine Side Simony Sit Sleeve Smile Smirch Smock Smoke Smooth Soffit Solemn Sorrow South Spheroidical Sphinx Spirit Spodumene Spot Spred Stand Starboard Stare Stile Stone Subtil Superficies Supination Supine Supinely Supineness Suveran Sweat Sweet Take Tan Tattoo Tenaillon Tender Tetrahexahedral Thitherward Timidity To Tooth Touch Towards Tridodecahedral Trioctahedral Trust Turn Ugly Unlucky Unmeaning Unmuffle Unthinking Unvail Urbanity Vacant Vail Vallancy Varvels Verdict Veronica Vice Vis-?-vis Visage Visnomy Vivid Wash Wash-ball Watch-glass We Whiteness Wipe With Withstand Wrinkle Zygomatic
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