facedadj.¹

Brit.

/feɪst/, U.S.

/feɪst/

Forms: see face n. and -ed suffix²; also 1500s faast, 1500s faaste, 1500s faste, 1500s–1600s facst, 1500s–1600s fac't, 1600s facde, 1600s facte.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: face n., -ed suffix².

Etymology: < face n. + -ed suffix². In sense 3 short for shit-faced adj. Compare faced adj.²

I. Provided with or having a face.

1. In parasynthetic and similative compounds.

a. Of a person or a thing personified: having a face or expression of a specified kind, or regarded (sometimes in endearment or derision) as similar to that of another type of creature, thing, etc. For more established compounds, as bare-, fresh-faced, etc.; baby-, dog-, hawk-, hog-faced, etc.: see the first element.

ΚΠ

1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 20 ^v It apparteneth not to a kyng to be prowde..but gladdely shewe him self open faced amongis his people.

?1544 J. Bale Epist. Exhortatorye f. xiv That double faced trayter Wilson, namynge it [sc. Gods worde] full of errours and verye yll translated.

1553 J. Bale tr. S. Gardiner De Vera Obedientia Pref. sig. A ij The double-faced epicureous biteshepe of Couentrye and Lichefelde.

1599 J. Minsheu Pleasant Dialogues Spanish & Eng. 67 in R. Percyvall & J. Minsheu Spanish Gram. The Diuill..brought the blushfaced yong man to the court.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vi. 293 We marched through a fiery faced plaine.

1710 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 23 Sept. (1948) I. 28 He is a rawboned-faced fellow.

1796 W. Cole Contradiction 56 He..dared to marry a fat and bloated, pimple-faced, squat, Dutch woman.

1815 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 17/1 The original invention of the pig-faced woman, about the year 1764.

1863 Sat. Rev. 124 Their leafy height, that winter soon Left leafless to the cold-faced moon.

1896 H. Frederic Damnation of Theron Ware (1960) xxix. 317 An amiable-faced young mulatto.

1925 Cent. Mag. Jan. 342/1 Some botch-faced young Scots clergyman might have asked my hand in holy matrimony.

1960 H. Lee To kill Mockingbird 171 Greasy-faced children popped-the-whip through the crowd.

2005 Time Out 7 Dec. 68/1 He witnesses a golem-faced crew of sartorially inelegant malevolents availing themselves sexually of a barnful of squealing pigs.

b. Of a thing: having a face or surface of a specified kind; spec. (of a golf club) having a particular type of playing surface, as long-faced, short-faced, etc.For more established compounds, as metal-, rock-faced, etc., see the first element.

ΚΠ

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. viii. 375 Where huge and hilly lands Haue stone-fac'd scurrile bounds.

1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) ii. cxxxix. 23 For his rich Ring of smoothfac'd Diamond.

1840 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 3 402/1 The improved metallic wheel with wood-faced tyre.

1861 All Year Round 15 June 287/2 Marble-faced houses.

1893 H. G. Hutchinson Golfing 21 These short-faced clubs.

1909 P. A. Vaile Mod. Golf viii. 120 Don't choose a big-headed club, and avoid a long-faced one.

1931 C. E. Munroe & J. E. Tiffany Physical Testing Explosives 81 A carborundum-faced shoe..is made by facing a wooden lock with aloxite cloth and then slipping it into dovetailed grooves on the lower face of the shoe.

1992 Hist. Preserv. Mar.–Apr. 65/2 The imposing, granite-faced 1903 Piedmont Hotel..resisted the force of a wrecker's ball.

2. Having a face like something or someone specified. Now rare.Common in 16th and 17th centuries.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [adjective] > having a certain quality or qualities

positivea1398

tachedc1400

facedc1525

arsed1542

qualitied1567

qualified1590

propertieda1616

qualitated1662

city1946

c1525 Bk. Mayd Emlyn sig. A.iiii Faced lyke an aungell.

1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions i. ix. f. 69 Sower countenaunced, faced lyke death.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 213 The Bats..are faced like Monkeyes.

c1639 T. Dekker & J. Ford Sun's-darling (1656) ii. 9 Rural fellows, fac'd Like lovers of your Laws.

1853 L. Gisborne Jrnl. Trip to Darien 81 One Spaniard..faced like an exhumed subject who had died of small pox, smokes all dinner time.

1874 M. B. Smedley Two Dramatic Poems 273 He was yet A slender sprite of ten, faced like a girl.

1905 M. H. Hewlett Fond Adventures 293 The little humanist was faced like a cherub, but he could criticise with the Assessing Angel.

2001 J. Furio Lett. from Prison 18 He told her she had a head faced like a horse. Long and ugly but a big mouth good for something.

II. slang (originally U.S.).

3. Extremely intoxicated with drugs or (esp.) alcohol; = shit-faced adj. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > completely or very drunk

drunk as a (drowned) mousea1350

to-drunka1382

as drunk as the devilc1400

sow-drunk1509

fish-drunk1591

swine-drunk1592

gone1603

far gone1616

reeling drunk1620

soda1625

souseda1625

blind1630

full1631

drunk (also merry, tipsy) as a lord1652

as full (or tight) as a tick1678

clear1688

drunk (dull, mute) as a fish1700

as drunk as David's sow or as a sow1727

as drunk as a piper1728

blind-drunkc1775

bitch foua1796

blootered1820

whole-seas over1820

three sheets in the wind1821

as drunk as a loon1830

shellaced1881

as drunk as a boiled owl1886

stinking1887

steaming drunk1892

steaming with drink1897

footless1901

legless1903

plastered1912

legless drunk1926

stinko1927

drunk as a pissant1930

kaylied1937

langers1949

stoned1952

smashed1962

shit-faced1963

out of (also off) one's bird1966

trashed1966

faced1968

stoned1968

steaming1973

langered1979

annihilated1980

obliterated1984

wankered1992

muntered1998

1968 C. F. Baker et al. College Undergraduate Slang Study (typescript, Brown Univ.) 113 Faced, drunk.

1980 UNC-CH Campus Slang (Univ. N. Carolina, Chapel Hill) (typescript) Oct. 3 George got faced Thursday night.

1998 M. Harrison High Society 28 You could get pure MDMA capsules in those days and half a capsule would make you totally faced for nine or ten hours.

2007 A. Marrone Uninvited xvi. 196 I wasn't the one getting faced in my room every night.

Compounds

faced-card n. now rare = face card n. at face n. Compounds 2, court-card n. 1; also figurative.

ΚΠ

1708 tr. J. Ozanam Recreations Math. & Physical 77 The Card drawn is either a 10 or a faced Card..if it be a faced card, one can't distinguish whether it be King, Queen or Knave.

1794 Sporting Mag. 3 41 ‘We are all faced cards’. ‘I hope..you are not all Kings.’

1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Faced-cards, the court cards of a pack.

2001 C. Chinn & S. Thorne Proper Brummie (2002) 85 Faced-cards, the ‘court’ or ‘picture cards’ in a deck of playing cards.

faced cloth n. a fabric that has a finish, esp. a high sheen, on the side intended to be seen.

ΚΠ

1852 Mechanics' Mag. 26 June 517/1 The faced cloth is then removed, and subjected to the usual operations of milling or fulling..and finishing.

1892 Daily News 15 Oct. 7/1 Every variety of surface is supplied..from the sheeny ‘faced cloth’ to the rough ‘hop~sack’.

1949 Times 24 Oct. 7/1 (advt.) The model sketched is in Donkey Brown Faced Cloth.

† faced rule n. Obsolete Printing a metal rule with a thickened surface.

ΚΠ

1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 43 Faced Rule, Brass Rule with the ordinary thin face somewhat thickened.

faced work n. Architecture the material or workmanship used to create a superior finish on (a part of) a building or other structure.

ΚΠ

1813 ‘T. Martin’ Circle Mech. Arts 532/2 All faced work in slate skirtings, staircases, galleries &c. is charged by the foot.

1861 J. Philp Washington Described i.16 It [sc. gneiss rock] splits in two directions nearly at right angles to each other, which fits it for faced work with little labor.

1971 A. W. McNicoll Hellenistic Fortifications I. vi. 248 Tooled faced work was popular..and its precision..is to my mind a decline from the ‘stoney’ stone of the earlier fortifications.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

facedadj.²

Brit.

/feɪst/, U.S.

/feɪst/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: face v., -ed suffix¹.

Etymology: < face v. + -ed suffix¹. Compare faced adj.¹

1. Of a garment: turned up or trimmed with another material, usually for contrast or strength; (also of a part of a garment) covered with another material. Now frequently as the final element in compounds.

ΚΠ

1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos iv. 45 Scarlet Gowns, with Velvet-plush, of Sattanically faced Sleeves, the long rich sarsnet Scarfes before.

1661 S. Pepys Diary 13 June (1970) II. 120 My gray cloth suit and faced white coate.

1787 J. Rann in Dramatic Wks. Shakspeare II. 344 (note) Fac'd—turn'd up with facings—and out faced.

1820 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 385 The only costume..less becoming..is the modern military dress, the hussar boots, the faced coat, and hair clubbed up with pomatum.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Faced, turned up with facings on the cuffs and collars of uniforms.

1923 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 14 Nov. 5/1 (advt.) Blouses, made of gray and khaki flannel..faced sleeve and collar attached.

1993 Economist (Nexis) 9 Jan. 51 The growing band of Scots who wear a kilt instead of evening dress invest in a silk-faced jacket and a silver-topped sporran.

a. Of a playing card: that has been turned face up.

ΚΠ

1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester xvi. 136 Then the bottom fac'd Cards are upwards.

1700 T. Brown et al. tr. P. Scarron Comical Romance ii. viii. 180 in tr. P. Scarron Whole Comical Wks. The Advocate and the Gentleman..by this time had given over Playing, upon a dispute about a fac'd Card.

?1770 ‘De Chateauneuf’ New Treat. Piquet i. 13 If there should be one of the cards of the bank faced, the deal holds good, unless the faced card should be the uppermost card.

1819 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia (new ed.) at Commerce If the pack prove false or the deal wrong, or if there be a faced card, there must be a fresh deal.

1868 G. F. Pardon Card Player 21 Faced cards necessitate a new deal.

1922 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Jrnl.-Gaz. 30 Apr. As each faced card is used, the covered card must be faced at once.

1978 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald Jrnl. 17 Dec. 32/7 There is no penalty for a revoke if made in failing to play any faced card on the table.

†b. Of a body of soldiers: that has turned or faced about. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1796 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry 245 When the whole was halted, the proper front would be taken by the faced wing.

3. Of a piece of stone, metal, wood, etc.: having the surface dressed, smoothed, or polished.

ΚΠ

1742 in J. G. Burnett Powis Papers (1951) 278 A pair of faced Irons.

1818 W. Hargrove Hist. & Descr. York II. v.209 A neat square room or chapel, the walls of which are of faced stone and appear well built.

1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times xi. 379 These [sling-stones] were called ofai ara—faced or edged stones.

1888 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. Soc. N.Y. 20 64 The latter, like the walls..is of smooth, faced stones, that may once have been covered with cement.

1909 Janesville (Wisconsin) Daily Gaz. 30 Mar. 6/3 A face down machine, which permits of making beautiful faced blocks..with a finer grade of material in the face than..in the body.

1950 O. E. Middleton in Landfall June 125 The planer..grunts and grinds away and spits out faced boards for the tailer-out to stack.

1974 Science 13 Dec. 984/1 A simple patio formed by a single line of faced stones.

2004 Tool & Machinery Catal. 2005 (Axminster Power Tool Centre Ltd.) i. 12/3 They are offered in six different types, coarse tooth pitch for ripping..and a 40° alternate bevel design for the ultimate finish on faced boards.

4. Of tea: that has been artificially altered in appearance, coloured. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1871 Manufacturer & Builder Sept. 211/2 ‘Faced’ tea, or that which has an artificial colour, may be detected by a very simple means.

1875 Sat. Rev. 40 553/1 Consumers of ‘faced’ tea have taken to it for the benefit of manufacturers and importers.

1912 Times 22 Jan. 22/6 The factors who collect leaf from small cultivators now have to conform to the objection to ‘faced’ tea in the States.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	faced
释义	facedadj.¹ Brit. /feɪst/, U.S. /feɪst/ Forms: see face n. and -ed suffix²; also 1500s faast, 1500s faaste, 1500s faste, 1500s–1600s facst, 1500s–1600s fac't, 1600s facde, 1600s facte. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: face n., -ed suffix². Etymology: < face n. + -ed suffix². In sense 3 short for shit-faced adj. Compare faced adj.² I. Provided with or having a face. 1. In parasynthetic and similative compounds. a. Of a person or a thing personified: having a face or expression of a specified kind, or regarded (sometimes in endearment or derision) as similar to that of another type of creature, thing, etc. For more established compounds, as bare-, fresh-faced, etc.; baby-, dog-, hawk-, hog-faced, etc.: see the first element. ΚΠ 1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 20 ^v It apparteneth not to a kyng to be prowde..but gladdely shewe him self open faced amongis his people. ?1544 J. Bale Epist. Exhortatorye f. xiv That double faced trayter Wilson, namynge it [sc. Gods worde] full of errours and verye yll translated. 1553 J. Bale tr. S. Gardiner De Vera Obedientia Pref. sig. A ij The double-faced epicureous biteshepe of Couentrye and Lichefelde. 1599 J. Minsheu Pleasant Dialogues Spanish & Eng. 67 in R. Percyvall & J. Minsheu Spanish Gram. The Diuill..brought the blushfaced yong man to the court. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vi. 293 We marched through a fiery faced plaine. 1710 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 23 Sept. (1948) I. 28 He is a rawboned-faced fellow. 1796 W. Cole Contradiction 56 He..dared to marry a fat and bloated, pimple-faced, squat, Dutch woman. 1815 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 17/1 The original invention of the pig-faced woman, about the year 1764. 1863 Sat. Rev. 124 Their leafy height, that winter soon Left leafless to the cold-faced moon. 1896 H. Frederic Damnation of Theron Ware (1960) xxix. 317 An amiable-faced young mulatto. 1925 Cent. Mag. Jan. 342/1 Some botch-faced young Scots clergyman might have asked my hand in holy matrimony. 1960 H. Lee To kill Mockingbird 171 Greasy-faced children popped-the-whip through the crowd. 2005 Time Out 7 Dec. 68/1 He witnesses a golem-faced crew of sartorially inelegant malevolents availing themselves sexually of a barnful of squealing pigs. b. Of a thing: having a face or surface of a specified kind; spec. (of a golf club) having a particular type of playing surface, as long-faced, short-faced, etc.For more established compounds, as metal-, rock-faced, etc., see the first element. ΚΠ 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. viii. 375 Where huge and hilly lands Haue stone-fac'd scurrile bounds. 1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) ii. cxxxix. 23 For his rich Ring of smoothfac'd Diamond. 1840 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 3 402/1 The improved metallic wheel with wood-faced tyre. 1861 All Year Round 15 June 287/2 Marble-faced houses. 1893 H. G. Hutchinson Golfing 21 These short-faced clubs. 1909 P. A. Vaile Mod. Golf viii. 120 Don't choose a big-headed club, and avoid a long-faced one. 1931 C. E. Munroe & J. E. Tiffany Physical Testing Explosives 81 A carborundum-faced shoe..is made by facing a wooden lock with aloxite cloth and then slipping it into dovetailed grooves on the lower face of the shoe. 1992 Hist. Preserv. Mar.–Apr. 65/2 The imposing, granite-faced 1903 Piedmont Hotel..resisted the force of a wrecker's ball. 2. Having a face like something or someone specified. Now rare.Common in 16th and 17th centuries. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [adjective] > having a certain quality or qualities positivea1398 tachedc1400 facedc1525 arsed1542 qualitied1567 qualified1590 propertieda1616 qualitated1662 city1946 c1525 Bk. Mayd Emlyn sig. A.iiii Faced lyke an aungell. 1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions i. ix. f. 69 Sower countenaunced, faced lyke death. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 213 The Bats..are faced like Monkeyes. c1639 T. Dekker & J. Ford Sun's-darling (1656) ii. 9 Rural fellows, fac'd Like lovers of your Laws. 1853 L. Gisborne Jrnl. Trip to Darien 81 One Spaniard..faced like an exhumed subject who had died of small pox, smokes all dinner time. 1874 M. B. Smedley Two Dramatic Poems 273 He was yet A slender sprite of ten, faced like a girl. 1905 M. H. Hewlett Fond Adventures 293 The little humanist was faced like a cherub, but he could criticise with the Assessing Angel. 2001 J. Furio Lett. from Prison 18 He told her she had a head faced like a horse. Long and ugly but a big mouth good for something. II. slang (originally U.S.). 3. Extremely intoxicated with drugs or (esp.) alcohol; = shit-faced adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > completely or very drunk drunk as a (drowned) mousea1350 to-drunka1382 as drunk as the devilc1400 sow-drunk1509 fish-drunk1591 swine-drunk1592 gone1603 far gone1616 reeling drunk1620 soda1625 souseda1625 blind1630 full1631 drunk (also merry, tipsy) as a lord1652 as full (or tight) as a tick1678 clear1688 drunk (dull, mute) as a fish1700 as drunk as David's sow or as a sow1727 as drunk as a piper1728 blind-drunkc1775 bitch foua1796 blootered1820 whole-seas over1820 three sheets in the wind1821 as drunk as a loon1830 shellaced1881 as drunk as a boiled owl1886 stinking1887 steaming drunk1892 steaming with drink1897 footless1901 legless1903 plastered1912 legless drunk1926 stinko1927 drunk as a pissant1930 kaylied1937 langers1949 stoned1952 smashed1962 shit-faced1963 out of (also off) one's bird1966 trashed1966 faced1968 stoned1968 steaming1973 langered1979 annihilated1980 obliterated1984 wankered1992 muntered1998 1968 C. F. Baker et al. College Undergraduate Slang Study (typescript, Brown Univ.) 113 Faced, drunk. 1980 UNC-CH Campus Slang (Univ. N. Carolina, Chapel Hill) (typescript) Oct. 3 George got faced Thursday night. 1998 M. Harrison High Society 28 You could get pure MDMA capsules in those days and half a capsule would make you totally faced for nine or ten hours. 2007 A. Marrone Uninvited xvi. 196 I wasn't the one getting faced in my room every night. Compounds faced-card n. now rare = face card n. at face n. Compounds 2, court-card n. 1; also figurative. ΚΠ 1708 tr. J. Ozanam Recreations Math. & Physical 77 The Card drawn is either a 10 or a faced Card..if it be a faced card, one can't distinguish whether it be King, Queen or Knave. 1794 Sporting Mag. 3 41 ‘We are all faced cards’. ‘I hope..you are not all Kings.’ 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Faced-cards, the court cards of a pack. 2001 C. Chinn & S. Thorne Proper Brummie (2002) 85 Faced-cards, the ‘court’ or ‘picture cards’ in a deck of playing cards. faced cloth n. a fabric that has a finish, esp. a high sheen, on the side intended to be seen. ΚΠ 1852 Mechanics' Mag. 26 June 517/1 The faced cloth is then removed, and subjected to the usual operations of milling or fulling..and finishing. 1892 Daily News 15 Oct. 7/1 Every variety of surface is supplied..from the sheeny ‘faced cloth’ to the rough ‘hop~sack’. 1949 Times 24 Oct. 7/1 (advt.) The model sketched is in Donkey Brown Faced Cloth. † faced rule n. Obsolete Printing a metal rule with a thickened surface. ΚΠ 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 43 Faced Rule, Brass Rule with the ordinary thin face somewhat thickened. faced work n. Architecture the material or workmanship used to create a superior finish on (a part of) a building or other structure. ΚΠ 1813 ‘T. Martin’ Circle Mech. Arts 532/2 All faced work in slate skirtings, staircases, galleries &c. is charged by the foot. 1861 J. Philp Washington Described i.16 It [sc. gneiss rock] splits in two directions nearly at right angles to each other, which fits it for faced work with little labor. 1971 A. W. McNicoll Hellenistic Fortifications I. vi. 248 Tooled faced work was popular..and its precision..is to my mind a decline from the ‘stoney’ stone of the earlier fortifications. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). facedadj.² Brit. /feɪst/, U.S. /feɪst/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: face v., -ed suffix¹. Etymology: < face v. + -ed suffix¹. Compare faced adj.¹ 1. Of a garment: turned up or trimmed with another material, usually for contrast or strength; (also of a part of a garment) covered with another material. Now frequently as the final element in compounds. ΚΠ 1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos iv. 45 Scarlet Gowns, with Velvet-plush, of Sattanically faced Sleeves, the long rich sarsnet Scarfes before. 1661 S. Pepys Diary 13 June (1970) II. 120 My gray cloth suit and faced white coate. 1787 J. Rann in Dramatic Wks. Shakspeare II. 344 (note) Fac'd—turn'd up with facings—and out faced. 1820 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 385 The only costume..less becoming..is the modern military dress, the hussar boots, the faced coat, and hair clubbed up with pomatum. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Faced, turned up with facings on the cuffs and collars of uniforms. 1923 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 14 Nov. 5/1 (advt.) Blouses, made of gray and khaki flannel..faced sleeve and collar attached. 1993 Economist (Nexis) 9 Jan. 51 The growing band of Scots who wear a kilt instead of evening dress invest in a silk-faced jacket and a silver-topped sporran. 2. a. Of a playing card: that has been turned face up. ΚΠ 1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester xvi. 136 Then the bottom fac'd Cards are upwards. 1700 T. Brown et al. tr. P. Scarron Comical Romance ii. viii. 180 in tr. P. Scarron Whole Comical Wks. The Advocate and the Gentleman..by this time had given over Playing, upon a dispute about a fac'd Card. ?1770 ‘De Chateauneuf’ New Treat. Piquet i. 13 If there should be one of the cards of the bank faced, the deal holds good, unless the faced card should be the uppermost card. 1819 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia (new ed.) at Commerce If the pack prove false or the deal wrong, or if there be a faced card, there must be a fresh deal. 1868 G. F. Pardon Card Player 21 Faced cards necessitate a new deal. 1922 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Jrnl.-Gaz. 30 Apr. As each faced card is used, the covered card must be faced at once. 1978 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald Jrnl. 17 Dec. 32/7 There is no penalty for a revoke if made in failing to play any faced card on the table. †b. Of a body of soldiers: that has turned or faced about. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1796 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry 245 When the whole was halted, the proper front would be taken by the faced wing. 3. Of a piece of stone, metal, wood, etc.: having the surface dressed, smoothed, or polished. ΚΠ 1742 in J. G. Burnett Powis Papers (1951) 278 A pair of faced Irons. 1818 W. Hargrove Hist. & Descr. York II. v.209 A neat square room or chapel, the walls of which are of faced stone and appear well built. 1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times xi. 379 These [sling-stones] were called ofai ara—faced or edged stones. 1888 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. Soc. N.Y. 20 64 The latter, like the walls..is of smooth, faced stones, that may once have been covered with cement. 1909 Janesville (Wisconsin) Daily Gaz. 30 Mar. 6/3 A face down machine, which permits of making beautiful faced blocks..with a finer grade of material in the face than..in the body. 1950 O. E. Middleton in Landfall June 125 The planer..grunts and grinds away and spits out faced boards for the tailer-out to stack. 1974 Science 13 Dec. 984/1 A simple patio formed by a single line of faced stones. 2004 Tool & Machinery Catal. 2005 (Axminster Power Tool Centre Ltd.) i. 12/3 They are offered in six different types, coarse tooth pitch for ripping..and a 40° alternate bevel design for the ultimate finish on faced boards. 4. Of tea: that has been artificially altered in appearance, coloured. Now rare. ΚΠ 1871 Manufacturer & Builder Sept. 211/2 ‘Faced’ tea, or that which has an artificial colour, may be detected by a very simple means. 1875 Sat. Rev. 40 553/1 Consumers of ‘faced’ tea have taken to it for the benefit of manufacturers and importers. 1912 Times 22 Jan. 22/6 The factors who collect leaf from small cultivators now have to conform to the objection to ‘faced’ tea in the States. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.¹1477adj.²1660
随便看	like a bull at a fivebarred gate like a bull at a gate like a bump on a log like a cat on hot bricks like a charm like a child in a candy shop like a child in a candy store like a child in a toy shop like a child with a new toy like a clock like a cock at a gooseberry like a cock at a groset like a cock at a variants like a demon like a dog with two tails like a dog's dinner like a dragon like a dream like a drowned mouse like a duck in a thunderstorm like a duck in thunder like a duck takes to water like a duck to water like a dying duck in a thunderstorm like a father

facedadj.1

Compounds

facedadj.2

facedadj.¹

facedadj.²