a.
1. Having a black or dark-colored face. Also fig.
1594. Shaks., Rich. III., I. ii. 159. Black-fac’d Clifford shooke his sword at him.
1773. G. White, Selborne, lvi. (1851), 172. The black-faced poll-sheep have the shortest legs.
1878. Tennyson, Q. Mary, II. i. 54. The black-faced swains of Spain.
2. Of things: Dark, dismal, gloomy.
1592. Shaks., Ven. & Ad., 773. This black-faced night, desires foul nurse.
1611. R. Chester, Ann. Gt. Brit. (1878), 79. The Sunne did frowne, Fore-shewing to his men a blacke-fac’t day.
