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<hw>Face</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Faced</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Facing</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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>as, to <ex>face</ex> an enemy in the field of battale</as>.</def>

<blockquote>I'll <b>face</b> This tempest, and deserve the name of king. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To Confront impudently; to bully.</def>

<blockquote>I will neither be <b>faced</b>nor braved. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To stand opposite to; to stand with the face or front toward; to front upon; <as>as, the apartments of the general <ex>faced</ex> the park</as>.</def>

<blockquote>He gained also with his forces that part of Britain which <b>faces</b> Ireland. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon; <as>as, a building <ex>faced</ex> with marble</as>.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To line near the edge, esp. with a different material; <as>as, to <ex>face</ex> the front of a coat, or the bottom of a dress</as>.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>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.</def>

<p><b>7.</b> <fld>(Mach.)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>To cause to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction.</def>

<cs><col>To face down</col>, <cd>to put down by bold or impudent opposition.</cd> "He <i>faced<i> men <i>down<i>." <i>Prior</i>. -- <col>To face (a thing) out</col>, <cd>to persist boldly or impudently in an assertion or in a line of conduct. "That thinks with oaths <i>to face<i> the matter <i>out<i>."</cd> <i>Shak</i></cs>

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<hw>Face</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To carry a false appearance; to play the hypocrite.</def> "To lie, to <i>face</i>, to forge."

<i>Spenser.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To turn the face; <as>as, to <ex>face</ex> to the right or left</as>.</def>

<blockquote><b>Face</b> about, man; a soldier, and afraid! <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To present a face or front.</def>

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<hw>Faced</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having (such) a face, or (so many) faces; <as>as, smooth-<ex>faced</ex>, two-<ex>faced</ex></as>.</def>

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<hw>Fa"ser</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>There be no greater talkers, nor boasters, nor <b>fasers</b>. <i>Latimer.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy.</def> <mark>[Collog.]</mark>

<blockquote>I should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had hollowed when I got a <b>facer</b>. <i>C. Kingsley.</i></blockquote>

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