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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.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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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
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face
The edge of a sharp instrument. Also, the word of command to soldiers, marines, and small-arm men, t...
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After
·adj Hinder; nearer the rear.
II. After ·prep Below in rank; next to in order.
III. After ·prep Be...
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after
A comparative adjective, applied to any object in the hind part of a ship or boat; as, the after-cab...
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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;
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buck's face
A cuckold.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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carbuncle face
A red face, full of pimples.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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face-making
Begetting children. To face it out; to persist in a falsity. No face but his own: a saying of one wh...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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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
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frosty face
One pitted with the small pox.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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hatchet face
A long thin face.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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mossy face
The mother of all saints.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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rich face
or NOSE
A red pimpled, face.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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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
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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
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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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After damp
·- An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. ·see Carboni...
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After-dinner
·noun The time just after dinner.
II. After-dinner ·adj Following dinner; post-prandial; as, an aft...
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After-eatage
·noun <<Aftergrass>>.
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After-glow
·noun A glow of refulgence in the western sky after sunset.
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After-image
·noun The impression of a vivid sensation retained by the retina of the eye after the cause has been...
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After-mentioned
·adj Mentioned afterwards; as, persons after-mentioned (in a writing).
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After-note
·noun One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from th...
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After-sails
·noun The sails on the mizzenmast, or on the stays between the mainmast and mizzenmast.
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After-wit
·noun Wisdom or perception that comes after it can be of use.
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After-witted
·adj Characterized by after-wit; slow-witted.
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after-clap
A demand after the first given in has been discharged; a charge for pretended omissions; in short, a...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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after night
After nightfall; in the evening; as, "A meeting will be held in the court-house after night." This e...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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at-after
afterwards. North.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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after-body
That part of the ship's hull which is abaft the midships or dead-flat, as seen from astern. The term...
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after-clap
Whatever disagreeable occurrence takes place after the consequences of the cause were thought at an ...
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after-end
The stern of a ship, or anything in her which has that end towards the stern.
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after-guard
The men who are stationed on the quarter-deck and poop, to work the after-sails. It was generally co...
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after-ladder
leads to captain's and officers' quarters, and only used by officers.
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after-orders
Those which are given out after the regular issue of the daily orders.
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after-part
The locality towards the stern, from dead-flat; as, in the after-part of the fore-hold.
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after-peak
The contracted part of a vessel's hold, which lies in the run, or aftermost portion of the hold, in ...
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after-rake
That part of the hull which overhangs the after-end of keel.
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after-sails
All those on the after-masts, as well as on the stays between the main and mizen masts. Their effect...
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after-timbers
All those timbers abaft the midship section or bearing part of a vessel.
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jack nasty face
A sea term, signifying a common sailor.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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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.
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jack nasty-face
A cook's assistant.
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to tag after
To follow closely after.--Forby.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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fore-and-after
A cocked hat worn with the peak in front instead of athwart. Also, a very usual term for a schooner ...
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face of a gun
The surface of the metal at the extremity of the muzzle.
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