[L. faciēs: see FACE.]

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  † 1.  Humorously for: Face, countenance. Obs.

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1611.  Cotgr. s.v. Abbé, Face d’abbé, a jollie, fat, and red face; a fierie facies.

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  2.  Nat. Hist. General aspect or appearance.

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1727–36.  in Bailey, Facies (in Botanick Writers) a face.

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1854.  Murchison, Siluria, vi. (ed. 5), 105. They present the uniform ‘facies’ of a thick, yet finely laminated, dark, dull grey shale.

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1872.  Nicholson, Palæont., 475. The general facies of the Carboniferous vegetation is much the same as that of the Devonian.

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1881.  J. S. Gardner, in Nature, No. 623. 531. Not only is the facies of the flora identical, but identical species appear in both continents.

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