[f. FACE sb. + -ED2.] Furnished with or having a face.
1. Of persons. † a. Having a face like (a dog, etc.). Obs. b. In combination with some defining prefix, as bare-, dog-, full-, etc., faced, for which see those words.
c. 1500. Bk. Maid Emlyn, in Anc. Poet. Tracts (Percy Society), 20.
| Faced lyke an aungell, | |
| Tonged lyke a deuyll of hell. |
1576. Newton, Lemnie’s Complex. (1633), 110. At the last grim visaged, sowre countenanced, faced like death, filthy, loathsome, and leane as a rake.
1599. Minsheu, Pleasant and Delightfull Dialogues in Spanish and English (1623), 67. The Devill brought him to the warre, as it is said hee brought the blush-faced young man to the Court.
1624. Ford, etc., The Sun’s Darling, II. i.
| Del. A company of rural fellows, fac’d | |
| Like lovers of your laws. |
1632. Lithgow, Trav., VI. 293. We marched through a fiery faced plaine.
1634. Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 213. The Bats … are faced like Monkeyes.
1710. Swift, Jrnl. to Stella, 21 Sept. He is a rawboned-faced fellow, not handsome, nor visibly so young as you say.
1862. W. Barnes, The New House A-Gettèn Wold, 11.
| Their leafy height, that winter soon | |
| Left leafless to the cold-feäced moon. |
2. Faced cloth: a fabric manufactured with a ‘natural lustre.’
1889. Daily News, 5 Oct., 7/7. Advt., Faced Cloths, warranted not to spot with rain, in all the new shades.
3. Faced card = face-card, court-card.
1793. Sporting Mag., III. Oct., 41/1. ‘We are all faced cards.’ ‘I hope,’ said the mendicant, ‘you are not all Kings; from your dress you cannot be Queens.’
1847–78. in Halliwell.
1869. in Peacock, Lonsdale Gloss., 29.
1879. in Miss Jackson, Shropsh. Word-bk., 138.
4. Printing. (see quot.)
1888. Jacobi, Printer’s Vocab., Faced rule.—Brass rule with the ordinary thin face somewhat thickened.
5. Arch. ‘Faced work, thin stone, otherwise called bastard ashlar, used to imitate squared stone work. In painting, the rubbing down each coat with pumice before the next is laid on. Used also of superior plastering.’ (Arch. Dict., 1892).
