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Faced
·Impf & ·p.p. of <<Face>>.
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faced
Turned up with facings on the cuffs and collars of uniforms and regimentals.
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Half
·adj Part; side; behalf.
II. Half ·vt To halve. [Obs.] ·see <<Halve>>.
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Half-and-half
·noun A mixture of two malt liquors, ·esp. porter and ale, in about equal parts.
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Apple-faced
·adj Having a round, broad face, like an <<Apple>>.
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Bald-faced
·adj Having a white face or a white mark on the face, as a stag.
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Bell-faced
·adj Having the striking surface convex;
— said of hammers.
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Black-faced
·adj Having a black, dark, or gloomy face or aspect.
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Bold-faced
·adj Having a conspicuous or heavy face.
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Chub-faced
·adj Having a plump, short face.
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Copper-faced
·adj Faced or covered with copper; as, copper-faced type.
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Cream-faced
·adj White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the natural complexion.
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Dog-faced
·adj Having a face resembling that of a dog.
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Double-faced
·adj Deceitful; hypocritical; treacherous.
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Dough-faced
·adj Easily molded; pliable.
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False-faced
·adj <<Hypocritical>>.
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Fiber-faced
·adj ·Alt. of Fibre-faced.
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Fibre-faced
·adj Having a visible fiber embodied in the surface of;
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Glass-faced
·adj Mirror-faced; reflecting the sentiments of another.
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Janus-faced
·adj Double-faced; deceitful.
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Lean-faced
·adj Having a thin face.
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Moon-faced
·adj Having a round, full face.
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Mulberry-faced
·adj Having a face of a mulberry color, or blotched as if with mulberry stains.
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Pitch-faced
·adj Having the arris defined by a line beyond which the rock is cut away, so as to give nearly true...
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Platter-faced
·adj Having a broad, flat face.
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Pug-faced
·adj Having a face like a monkey or a pug; monkey-faced.
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Putty-faced
·adj White-faced;
— used contemptuously.
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Quarry-faced
·adj Having a face left as it comes from the quarry and not smoothed with the chisel or point;
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Sheep-faced
·adj Over-bashful; sheepish.
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Smock-faced
·adj Having a feminine countenance or complexion; smooth-faced; girlish.
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Tallow-faced
·adj Having a sickly complexion; pale.
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Weasel-faced
·adj Having a thin, sharp face, like a weasel.
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Whey-faced
·adj Having a pale or white face, as from fright.
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Wizen-faced
·adj Having a shriveled, thin, withered face.
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bacon-faced
Full-faced.
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bracket-faced
Ugly, hard-featured.
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bran-faced
Freckled. He was christened by a baker, he carries the bran in his face.
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brandy-faced
Red-faced, as if from drinking brandy.
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brazen-faced
Bold-faced, shameless, impudent.
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chitty-faced
Baby-faced; said of one who has a childish look.
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corny-faced
A very red pimpled face.
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cribbage-faced
Marked with the small pox, the pits bearing a kind of resemblance to the holes in a cribbage-board.
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platter-faced
Broad-faced.
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ruby faced
Red-faced.
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smock-faced
Fair faced.
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stub-faced
Pitted with the smallpox: the devil ran over his face with horse stabs (horse nails) in his shoes.
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weasel-faced
Thin, meagre-faced. Weasel-gutted; thin-bodied; a weasel is a thin long slender animal with a sharp ...
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mezzil-faced
red with pimples. Lane.
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liver-faced
Mean and cowardly, independent of complexion.
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Half blood
·noun A person so related to another.
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Half nelson
·add. ·- A hold in which one arm is thrust under the corresponding arm of the opponent, generally be...
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Half tone
·add. ·noun ·Alt. of Half-tone.
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Half-blooded
·adj Degenerate; mean.
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Half-boot
·noun A boot with a short top covering only the ankle. ·see <<Cocker>>, and Congress boot, under <<C...
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Half-bound
·noun Having only the back and corners in leather, as a book.
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Half-bred
·adj Half-blooded.
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Half-breed
·adj Half-blooded.
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Half-brother
·noun A brother by one parent, but not by both.
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Half-caste
·noun One born of a European parent on the one side, and of a Hindoo or Mohammedan on the other. Als...
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Half-clammed
·adj Half-filled.
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Half-cracked
·adj Half-demented; half-witted.
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Half-deck
·noun ·see Half deck, under <<Deck>>.
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Half-decked
·adj Partially decked.
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Half-fish
·noun A salmon in its fifth year of growth.
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Half-hatched
·adj Imperfectly hatched; as, half-hatched eggs.
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Half-heard
·adj Imperfectly or partly heard to the end.
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Half-hearted
·adj Lacking zeal or courage; lukewarm.
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Half-hourly
·adj Done or happening at intervals of half an <<Hour>>.
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Half-learned
·adj Imperfectly learned.
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Half-length
·adj Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a picture.
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Half-mast
·noun A point some distance below the top of a mast or staff; as, a flag a half-mast (a token of mou...
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Half-moon
·noun The shape of a half-moon; a crescent.
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Half-pike
·noun A short pike, sometimes carried by officers of infantry, sometimes used in boarding ships; a s...
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Half-port
·noun One half of a shutter made in two parts for closing a porthole.
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Half-ray
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Half-read
·adj Informed by insufficient reading; superficial; shallow.
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Half-sighted
·adj Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment.
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Half-sister
·noun A sister by one parent only.
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Half-strained
·adj Half-bred; imperfect.
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Half-sword
·noun Half the length of a sword; close fight.
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Half-timbered
·adj Constructed of a timber frame, having the spaces filled in with masonry;
— said of buildings.
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Half-tone
·add. ·noun A half step.
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Half-tounue
·noun A jury, for the trial of a foreigner, composed equally of citizens and aliens.
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Half-wit
·noun A foolish; a dolt; a blockhead; a dunce.
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Half-witted
·adj Weak in intellect; silly.
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Half-yearly
·adj Two in a year; semiannual.
— ·adv Twice in a year; semiannually.
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half cock
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half-beams
Short timbers, from the side to the hatchways, to support the deck where there is no framing. (See f...
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half-cock
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half-davit
Otherwise fish-davit (which see).
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half-deck
A space between the foremost bulk-head of the steerage and the fore-part of the quarter-deck. In the...
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half-flood
See flood.
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half-galley
See galley.
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half-hitch
Pass the end of a rope round its standing part, and bring it up through the bight. (See three half-h...
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half-man
A landsman or boy in a coaster, undeserving the pay of a full-man.
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half-mast
The lowering a flag in respect for the death of an officer.
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half-moon
An old form of outwork somewhat similar to the ravelin, originally placed before the salients of bas...
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half-pike
An iron spike fixed on a short ashen staff, used to repel the assault of boarders, and hence frequen...
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half-point
A subdivision of the compass card, equal to 5° 37′ of the circle.
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half-ports
A sort of one-inch deal shutter for the upper half of those ports which have no hanging lids; the lo...
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half-sea
The old term for mid-channel.
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half-speed!
An order in steam navigation to reduce the speed. (See full speed!)
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half-timbers
The short timbers or futtocks in the cant-bodies, answering to the lower futtocks in the square-body...
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half-top
The mode of making ships' tops in two pieces, which are afterwards secured as a whole by what are te...
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pig-faced lady
n.
an old name in Tasmania forthe Boar-fish (q.v.).
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Half seas over
·- Half drunk.
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Half Moon Alley
1) Out of Jewin Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
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Half Moon Court
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Half Moon Passage
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Half Moon Street
West out of Bishopsgate Street Without. In Bishopsgate Ward Without (Lockie, 1810-O.S. 1880).
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Half Moon, Aldersgate
A tenement so called in parish of St. Bartholomew Smithfield, adjoining shops in parish of St. Botol...
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Half Moon, Cheapside
Messuage so called in Westchepe in parish of Blessed Mary Colechurch, 23 Eliz. (Lond. I. p.m. III. 4...
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Half Paved Court
East out of Dorset Street to Bridewell Precinct, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-O.S. 188...
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half seas over
Almost drunk.
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half seas over
Intoxicated; drunk. A sailor's expression.
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half-breadth plan
In ship-building, the same as floor-plan.
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half-drowned land
Shores which are rather more elevated and bear more verdure than drowned land (which see).
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half-minute glass
See glass.
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half seas over
Nearly intoxicated. This term was used by Swift.
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half-tide rocks
Those showing their heads at half-ebb. (See tide.)
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half-topsails, under
Said of a chase about 12 miles distant, the rest being below the horizon.
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half-turn ahead!
An order in steam navigation. (See turn ahead!)
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half-watch tackle
A luff purchase. (See watch-tackle.)
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three half-hitches are more than a king's yacht wants
An exclamatory remark to a green hand, meaning that two are enough.
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Half Moon Alley, Bethlem
South out of Bethlem to Petty France. In Bishopsgate Ward Without (Strype, 1720 and 1755).
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Half Moon Alley, Bishopsgate
See Half Moon Street.
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Half Moon Tavern, Cheapside
See Half Moon Alley.
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Half Moon, Bishopsgate Without
Described in a Release of 1543 as "le Signe de le hulfe Mone" belonging to St. Michael's Church, Cor...
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Half Moon, East Smithfield
Messuage called the Half Moon, in East Smithfield, in parish of St. Botolph Without Aldgate (Strype,...
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tack and half-tack
Working to windward, or along shore, by long and short boards, or legs, alternately.
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tide and half-tide
Those roadsteads affected by several rivers or channels leading into them; as, for instance, Spithea...
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Baker's Court, Half Moon Alley
North out of Half Moon Alley, Little Moorfields (Dodsley, 1761-Lockie, 1816). In Cripplegate Ward Wi...
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Baker's Court, Half Moon Street
South out of Half Moon Street. In Bishopsgate Ward Without (Strype, 1720-O.S. 1848-51).
Site now oc...
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Half Moon Alley, Court, Bishopsgate
See Flying Horse Yard.
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half an eye, seeing with
Discerning instantly and clearly.
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half-breadth of the rising
A ship-builder's term for a curve in the floor-plan, which limits the distances of the centres of th...
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half-laughs and purser's grins
Hypocritical and satirical sneers.
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minute and half-minute glasses
See glass.
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Ball Alley, Half Moon Alley, Bishopsgate
Out of Half Moon Alley, Bishopsgate, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (Boyle, 1799-Elmes, 1831).
Not nam...
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Flying Horse Yard, Half Moon Alley
West out of Bishopsgate Street, in Bishopsgate Ward Without, south of Half Moon Alley (P.C. 1732-Elm...
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Half Moon Court, Aldgate High Street
South out of Aldgate High Street, near the eastern boundary of the ward. In Portsoken Ward (O. and M...
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White Horse and Half Moon Stables
South out of London Wall. In Broad Street Ward (Rocque, 1746).
"Three Pigeon Alley" (O. and M. 1677...
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