单词 | old-faced |
释义 | old-facedadj. 1. Chiefly literary. Having a face characteristic of age. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [adjective] flatc1400 hardc1400 low-cheeredc1400 large?a1425 ruscledc1440 well-visagedc1440 platter-faced1533 well-faced1534 full-faced1543 fair-faced1553 bright-faceda1560 crab-faced1563 crab-snouted1563 crab-tree-faced1563 long-visaged1584 owlya1586 wainscot-faced1588 flaberkin1592 rough-hewn1593 angel-faced1594 round-faced1594 crab-favoured1596 rugged1596 weasel-faced1596 rough-faced1598 half-faced1600 chitty1601 lenten-faced1604 broad-faced1607 dog-faced1607 weaselled-faced1607 wry-faced1607 maid-faced1610 warp-faced1611 ill-faceda1616 lean-faceda1616 old-faceda1616 moon-faced1619 monkey-faced1620 chitty-face1622 chitty-faceda1627 lean-chapt1629 antic-faced1635 bloat-faced1638 bacon-facea1640 blue-faced1640 hatchet-faced1648 grave1650 lean-jawed1679 smock-faced1684 lean-visaged1686 flaber1687 baby-faced1692 splatter-faced1707 chubby1722 puggy1722 block-faced1751 haggard-looking1756 long-faced1762 haggardly1763 fresh-faced1766 dough-faced1773 pudding-faced1777 baby-featured1780 fat-faced1782 haggard1787 weazen-face1794 keen1798 ferret-like1801 lean-cheeked1812 mulberry-faced1812 open-faced1813 open-countenanced1819 chiselled1821 hatchety1821 misfeatured1822 terse1824 weazen-faced1824 mahogany-faced1825 clock-faced1827 sharp1832 sensual1833 beef-faced1838 weaselly1838 ferret-faced1840 sensuous1843 rat-faced1844 recedent1849 neat-faced1850 cherubimical1854 pinch-faced1859 cherubic1860 frownya1861 receding1866 weak1882 misfeaturing1885 platopic1885 platyopic1885 pro-opic1885 wind-splitting1890 falcon-face1891 blunt-featured1916 bun-faced1927 fish-faced1963 a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 259 'Tis not the rounder of your old-fac'd walles, Can hide you from our messengers of Warre. View more context for this quotation 1665 in C. B. Gunn Bk. Cross Kirk, Peebles (1912) 191 An old-faced warlock's yet. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House l. 481 Caddy was now the mother, and I the godmother, of such a poor little baby—such a tiny old-faced mite. 1855 W. Whitman Song of Myself xxxiii, in Representative Selections (1934) 40 How the lank loose-gown'd women look'd when boated from the side of their prepared graves, The silent old-faced infants and the lifted sick. 1916 L. Maude tr. L. Tolstoy Resurrection (1994) ii. x. 255 His mind was filled with thoughts of the peasants—..especially the strangely smiling, old-faced infant writhing its calfless little legs. 2000 M. Galvin in Poetry Mar. 315 I know enough I'd never try such guddle With my history classes of oldfaced high-schoolers Chewing on the lessons of the past. 2. Typography. In the style of old-face type. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > style of type > [adjective] > others modern1764 script1782 Caxtonian1811 Porsonian1813 antique type?1817 Aldine1837 Scotch1847 old-face1859 Times1860 old-faced1863 Fell type1883 Fournier1902 monotype1910 Goudy1933 monoline1962 slab serif1970 monospaced1972 1863 G. Unwin (title) Specimens of the old-faced series of type in use at the Gresham Steam-press. a1894 R. L. Stevenson Weir of Hermiston (1896) vi. 109 The last of these was the psalm-book; it was a fine piece, the gift of Mistress Clem, in distinct old-faced type, on paper that had begun to grow foxy in the warehouse. 1904 Proc. Royal Soc. 73 208 The line between the groups in old-faced type shows the outstanding secondary dispersion when lenses of the two materials are combined. 1927 Dict. National Biogr. 1912–21 at Daniel, Charles Caslon's old-faced type had been revived by William Pickering..some thirty-six years earlier. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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