face-making

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• Making

  ·noun Composition, or structure. II. Making ·noun External appearance; from. III. Making ·noun a <...

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• Face

  ·vi To present a face or front. II. Face ·noun The style or cut of a type or font of type. III. Fa...

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• Face

  Means simply presence, as when it is recorded that Adam and Eve hid themselves from the "face [R.V.,...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• face

  The edge of a sharp instrument. Also, the word of command to soldiers, marines, and small-arm men, t...

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• Love-making

  ·noun <<Courtship>>. ...

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• Making-iron

  ·noun A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seam...

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• Making-up

  ·noun The act of becoming reconciled or friendly. II. Making-up ·noun The act of bringing spirits t...

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• Mischief-making

  ·adj Causing harm; exciting enmity or quarrels. II. Mischief-making ·noun The act or practice of ma...

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• Money-making

  ·adj Affording profitable returns; lucrative; as, a money-making business. II. Money-making ·adj Su...

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• basket-making

  The good old trade of basket-making; copulation, or making feet for children's stockings. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• pear making

  Taking bounties from several regiments and immediately deserting. The cove was fined in the steel fo...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• making meat

  on the great Western prairies, consists in cutting into thin slices the boneless parts of the buffal...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• making iron

  One of the caulker's tools; it has a groove in it, and is used after the caulking iron to finish off...

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• making off

  Cutting the flensed blubber of a whale into pieces, fitted to pass in at the bilge-holes of the butt...

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• Tallow-face

  ·noun One who has a sickly, pale complexion. ...

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• White-face

  ·noun A white mark in the forehead of a horse, descending almost to the nose; — called also white-b...

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• buck's face

  A cuckold. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• carbuncle face

  A red face, full of pimples. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• friday-face

  A dismal countenance. Before, and even long after the Reformation, Friday was a day of abstinence, o...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• frosty face

  One pitted with the small pox. ...

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• hatchet face

  A long thin face. ...

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• mossy face

  The mother of all saints. ...

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• rich face

  or NOSE A red pimpled, face. ...

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• pig-face

  Pig-faces, and Pig's-face,or Pig's-faces. Names given to an indigenous «iceplant,» Mesembryanthemum...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• white-face

  n. a name applied to the Australianbird, Xerophila leucopsis, Gould. Another species isthe Chestnut...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• after-face

  See back of the post. ...

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• face-piece

  A piece of elm tabled on to the knee of the head, in the fore-part, to assist the conversion of the ...

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• jack nasty face

  A sea term, signifying a common sailor. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• to run one's face

  To make use of one's credit. 'To run one's face for a thing,' is to get it on tick. Any one who can...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• jack nasty-face

  A cook's assistant. ...

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• face of a gun

  The surface of the metal at the extremity of the muzzle. ...

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