a. Obs. [WELL adv. 32.] Having a fair face or good countenance. Also fig.

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1553.  Ascham, Rept. Germany, 29. He was now of the age of xxxii. yeares well faced.

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a. 1569.  Kingesmill, Godly Advise (1580), 13. Not so well faced as well lived, I meane not so well attired in the outward man as clothed in the inward manne.

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1597.  E. S., Discov. Knts. Poste, A 4. If my credit be better then yours, with this my wel-faste hoastice.

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1647.  N. Ward, Simple Cobler, 2. Hee that hath any well-faced phansy in his Crowne.

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1693.  [? Calder], Sc. Presbyt. Eloq. (ed. 2), Postscr. 102. A great Hantle of Bonnie braw well fac’d Lasses.

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1707.  Lond. Gaz., No. 4368/4. On the 15th Instant a pretty well Fac’d Boy … went away from School.

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