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ˈblack-faced, a.
1. Having a black or dark-coloured face; spec. of sheep. Also fig.
1594Shakes. Rich. III, i. ii. 159 Black-fac'd Clifford shooke his sword at him. 1773G. White Selborne lvi. (1851) 172 The black-faced poll-sheep have the shortest legs. 1801Farmer's Mag. Nov. 394 The Cheviot breed of sheep will succeed fully as well in the North, if not better, than the common Black-faced. 1878Tennyson Q. Mary ii. i. 54 The black-faced swains of Spain. 1886C. Scott Sheep-Farming 113 Blackfaced stocks [are letting] at about 2s 6d per sheep.
2. Of things: Dark, dismal, gloomy.
1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 773 This black-faced night, desires foul nurse. 1611R. Chester Ann. Gt. Brit. (1878) 79 The Sunne did frowne, Fore-shewing to his men a blacke-fac't day. |