Definition of face

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Face (n.) Cast of features; expression of countenance; look; air; appearance.

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Die :: Die (v. i.) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face..
Outstare :: Outstare (v. t.) To excel or overcome in staring; to face down.
Glase :: Glase (v. t.) To incrust, cover, or overlay with a thin surface, consisting of, or resembling, glass; as, to glaze earthenware; hence, to render smooth, glasslike, or glossy; as, to glaze paper, gunpowder, and the like..
Dissimilarity :: Dissimilarity (n.) Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilitude; variety; as, the dissimilarity of human faces and forms..
Camera Lucida :: Camera lucida () An instrument which by means of a prism of a peculiar form, or an arrangement of mirrors, causes an apparent image of an external object or objects to appear as if projected upon a plane surface, as of paper or canvas, so that the outlines may conveniently traced. It is generally used with the microscope..
Rhabdolith :: Rhabdolith (n.) A minute calcareous rodlike structure found both at the surface and the bottom of the ocean; -- supposed by some to be a calcareous alga.
Fillet :: Fillet (n.) A concave filling in of a reentrant angle where two surfaces meet, forming a rounded corner..
Loom :: Loom (v. i.) To appear above the surface either of sea or land, or to appear enlarged, or distorted and indistinct, as a distant object, a ship at sea, or a mountain, esp. from atmospheric influences; as, the ship looms large; the land looms high..
Umbilicus :: Umbilicus (n.) A point of a surface at which the curvatures of the normal sections are all equal to each other. A sphere may be osculatory to the surface in every direction at an umbilicus. Called also umbilic.
Redan :: Redan (n.) A work having two parapets whose faces unite so as to form a salient angle toward the enemy.
Undersoil :: Undersoil (n.) The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
Outcrop :: Outcrop (n.) That part of inclined strata which appears at the surface; basset.
Guide :: Guide (v. t.) Any contrivance, especially one having a directing edge, surface, or channel, for giving direction to the motion of anything, as water, an instrument, or part of a machine, or for directing the hand or eye, as of an operator.
Lustre :: Lustre (n.) A substance which imparts luster to a surface, as plumbago and some of the glazes..
Supernatant :: Supernatant (a.) Swimming above; floating on the surface; as, oil supernatant on water..
Catchdrain :: Catchdrain (n.) A ditch or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water..
Catchment :: Catchment (n.) A surface of ground on which water may be caught and collected into a reservoir.
Ledgment :: Ledgment (n.) The development of the surface of a body on a plane, so that the dimensions of the different sides may be easily ascertained..
Expansion :: Expansion (n.) That which is expanded; expanse; extend surface; as, the expansion of a sheet or of a lake; the expansion was formed of metal..
Catastrophe :: Catastrophe (n.) A violent and widely extended change in the surface of the earth, as, an elevation or subsidence of some part of it, effected by internal causes..
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