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Hack :: Hack (n.) A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach..

Against :: Against (prep.) Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over..

Pitching :: Pitching (n.) A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.

Extrorse :: Extrorse (a.) Facing outwards, or away from the axis of growth; -- said esp. of anthers occupying the outer side of the filament..

West :: West (n.) The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to set at the equinox; or, the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and on the left hand of a person facing north; the point directly opposite to east..

Cropper :: Cropper (n.) A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth..

Deface :: Deface (v. t.) To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of; as, to deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a record..

Skimmington :: Skimmington (n.) A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England..

Surface :: Surfacing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Surfac.

Defacement :: Defacement (n.) The act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration..

Streight :: Streetward (a.) Facing toward the street.

Starboard :: Starboard (v. t.) That side of a vessel which is on the right hand of a person who stands on board facing the bow; -- opposed to larboard, or port..

Trifarious :: Trifarious (a.) Facing three ways; arranged in three vertical ranks, as the leaves of veratrum..

Facing :: Facing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fac.

Revetment :: Revetment (v. t.) A facing of wood, stone, or any other material, to sustain an embankment when it receives a slope steeper than the natural slope; also, a retaining wall..

Face :: Face (v. t.) To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon; as, a building faced with marble..

Facing :: Facing (n.) The finishing of any face of a wall with material different from that of which it is chiefly composed, or the coating or material so used..

Sociable :: Sociable (n.) A carriage having two double seats facing each other, and a box for the driver..

Wharfing :: Wharfing (n.) A mode of facing sea walls and embankments with planks driven as piles and secured by ties.

Effacing :: Effacing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Effac.

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