face-piece

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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...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• 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...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Piece

  ·noun A castle; a fortified building. II. Piece ·noun One of the superior men, distinguished from a...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• piece

  A wench. A damned good or bad piece; a girl who is more or less active and skilful in the amorous co...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• piece

  A little while. 'Stay a piece.' Provincial in the north of England.--Johnson. The common expression ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• piece

  applied to time : Stay a piece ; i. e. a little while. York. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• 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

• 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

• 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. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hatchet face

  A long thin face. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• mossy face

  The mother of all saints. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• rich face

  or NOSE A red pimpled, face. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• 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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• Chimney-piece

  ·noun A decorative construction around the opening of a fireplace. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• cod piece

  The fore flap of a man's breeches. Do they bite, master? where, in the cod piece or collar?--a jocul...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• stomach-piece

  apron ...

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• cart-piece

  An early battering cannon mounted on a peculiar cart. ...

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• chamber-piece

  See chamber ...

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• cross-piece

  The transverse timber of the bitts. Also, a rail of timber extending over the windlass of some merch...

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• dagger-piece

  , or dagger-wood. A timber or plank that faces on to the poppets of the bilge-ways, and crosses th...

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• dragon piece

  A strut or abutment. ...

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• fish-piece

  See fish ...

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• gunner's piece

  In destroying and bursting guns, means a fragment of the breech, which generally flies upward. ...

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• hailshot-piece

  A sort of gun supplied of old to our ships, with dice of iron as the missile. ...

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• head-piece

  A term for the helmet. ...

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• lengthening-piece

  The same as short top-timber (which see). ...

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• main-piece

  The strong horizontal beam of the windlass, supported at the ends by iron spindles in the windlass-b...

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• pad-piece

  See pad ...

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• port-piece

  An ancient piece of ordnance used in our early fleets. ...

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• jaw-piece

  See rolling-chock ...

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• shoe-piece

  A board placed under the heel of a spar, or other weighty mass, to save the deck. In some cases inte...

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• sweep-piece

  A block at the bottom of the port-sill for receiving the chock of the gun-carriage, and to aid in tr...

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• time-piece

  , chronometer An instrument adapted for measuring mean time. The result of many years of study and e...

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• vent-piece

  The movable fitment which closes the breech and contains the vent in Armstrong breech-loading guns. ...

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• wall-piece

  A very heavy powerful musket, for use in fortified places. ...

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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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• hand mast-piece

  The smaller hand mast-spars. ...

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• piece of eight

  The early name for the coin of the value of 8 reals, the well-known Spanish dollar. ...

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• port-piece chamber

  A paterero for loading a port-piece at the breech. ...

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• yard-arm piece

  An octagonal piece of timber supplied to replace a yard-arm if shot away. It is one-third the length...

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• Piece Of Gold

  The rendering "pieces of gold," as in (2 Kings 5:5) is very doubtful; and "shekels of gold") as desi...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Piece Of Silver

  I. In the Old Testament the word "pieces" is used in the Authorized Version for a word understood in...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• face of a gun

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

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• main-piece of the rudder

  The rudder-stock, or piece which is connected by the rudder-bands to the stern-post. ...

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• chamber of a piece of ordnance

  The end of the bore modified to receive the charge of powder. In mortars, howitzers, and shell-guns,...

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• muzzle of a piece of ordnance

  The forward extremity of the cylinder, and the metal which surrounds it, extending back to the neck,...

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