Definition of face

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Face (n.) The principal dressed surface of a plate, disk, or pulley; the principal flat surface of a part or object..

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Erase :: Erase (v. t.) To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name..
Reproof :: Reproof (n.) An expression of blame or censure; especially, blame expressed to the face; censure for a fault; chiding; reproach..
Pitch :: Pitch (v. t.) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway..
Globigerina :: Globigerina (n.) A genus of small Foraminifera, which live abundantly at or near the surface of the sea. Their dead shells, falling to the bottom, make up a large part of the soft mud, generally found in depths below 3,000 feet, and called globigerina ooze. See Illust. of Foraminifera..
Aspect :: Aspect (n.) Position or situation with regard to seeing; that position which enables one to look in a particular direction; position in relation to the points of the compass; as, a house has a southern aspect, that is, a position which faces the south..
Float :: Float (n.) To rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up.
Hectograph :: Hectograph (n.) A contrivance for multiple copying, by means of a surface of gelatin softened with glycerin..
Decahedron :: Decahedron (n.) A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces.
Burn :: Burn (v. t.) To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass..
Ptilopaedic :: Ptilopaedic (a.) Having nearly the whole surface of the skin covered with down; dasypaedic; -- said of the young of certain birds.
Front :: Front (v. t.) To oppose face to face; to oppose directly; to meet in a hostile manner.
Sonometer :: Sonometer (n.) An instrument for exhibiting the transverse vibrations of cords, and ascertaining the relations between musical notes. It consists of a cord stretched by weight along a box, and divided into different lengths at pleasure by a bridge, the place of which is determined by a scale on the face of the box..
Sail :: Sail (n.) The extended surface of the arm of a windmill.
Vandal :: Vandal (n.) Hence, one who willfully destroys or defaces any work of art or literature..
Revet :: Revet (v. t.) To face, as an embankment, with masonry, wood, or other material..
Whey-faced :: Whey-faced (a.) Having a pale or white face, as from fright..
Cut :: Cut (n.) The surface left by a cut; as, a smooth or clear cut..
Bevel :: Bevel (n.) An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; -- called also a bevel square..
Vis-a-vis :: Vis-a-vis (adv.) Face to face.
Barefacedly :: Barefacedly (adv.) Openly; shamelessly.
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