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单词 faced
释义 I. faced, ppl. a.1|feɪst|
[f. face v. + -ed1.]
In senses of the verb. a. Of a card: That has been turned face upwards.
1674Cotton Complete Gamester xv. (1680) 96 Then the bottom fac'd Cards are upwards.1868Pardon Card Player 21 Faced cards necessitate a new deal.
b. Of a body of soldiers: That has faced or turned about.
1796Instr. & Reg. Cavalry (1813) 185 When the whole was halted, the proper front would be taken by the faced wing.
c. Of clothing: Turned up with another material.
1661Pepys Diary 13 June, My gray cloth suit and faced white coate.1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Faced, turned up with facings on the cuffs and collars of uniforms.
d. Of a block or piece of stone: Having the surface dressed or smoothed.
1865Lubbock Preh. Times xiii. (1878) 491 These [sling-stones] were called afai ara—faced or edged stones.
e. Of tea: That has been artificially altered in appearance, coloured.
1875Sat. Rev. XL. 553/1 Consumers of ‘faced’ tea have taken to it for the benefit of manufacturers and importers.
II. faced, ppl. a.2|feɪst|
[f. face n. + -ed2.]
Furnished with or having a face.
1. Of persons.
a. Having a face like (a dog, etc.). Obs.
b. In combination with some defining prefix, as bare-faced, dog-faced, full-, etc., faced, for which see those words. Of a golf-club, tennis-racket, etc. (see face n. 15 b), as long-faced, short-faced, small-faced, straight-faced adjs.
c1500Bk. Maid Emlyn in Anc. Poet. Tracts (Percy Soc.) 20 Faced lyke an aungell.1576Newton Lemnie's Complex. (1633) 110 Sowre countenanced, faced like death.1599Minsheu Dial. Sp. & Eng. (1623) 67 The Devill..brought the blush-faced young man to the Court.1624Ford, etc. Sun's Darling ii. i, Rural fellows, fac'd Like lovers of your Laws.1632Lithgow Trav. vi. 293 We marched through a fiery faced plaine.1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 213 The Bats..are faced like Monkeyes.1710Swift Jrnl. to Stella 23 Sept., He is a rawboned faced fellow.1863Sat. Rev. 124 Their leafy height, that winter soon Left leafless to the cold-faced moon.1893H. G. Hutchinson Golfing 21 These short-faced clubs.1897Encycl. Sport I. 467/2 A straight-faced club.1897[see face n. 15 b].1909P. A. Vaile Mod. Golf viii. 120 Don't choose a big-headed club, and avoid a long-faced one.
2. faced cloth: a fabric manufactured with a ‘natural lustre’.
1889Daily News 5 Oct. 7/7 Advt., Faced Cloths, warranted not to spot with rain, in all the new shades.
3. faced card = face-card, court-card.
1794Sporting Mag. III. 41 ‘We are all faced cards’. ‘I hope..you are not all Kings’.1847–78in Halliwell.1869in Peacock Gloss. Lonsdale 29. 1879 in G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk. 138.
4. Printing. (See quot.)
1888Jacobi Printer's Vocab. 43 Faced Rule, Brass Rule with the ordinary thin face somewhat thickened.
5. Arch.Faced work, thin stone, otherwise called bastard ashlar, used to imitate squared stone work. In painting, the rubbing down each coat with pumice before the next is laid on. Used also of superior plastering.’ (Arch. Dict. 1892).
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