152 FAC 
fkin of Mofes’s fact (hone. Exod. xxxiv. 35.—Counte¬ 
nance ; cart of the features ; look ; air of the face.— 
Kick’d out, we fet the bed face on’t we could. Dryden. 
Seiz’d and ty’d down to judge, how wretch’d I ! 
Who can’t be filent, and who will not lie ; 
To laugh were want of goodnefs and of grace ; 
And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. Pope. 
The furface of any thing.—A mid watered the w’hole 
face of tiie ground. Gen. —The front or forepart of any 
thing.—The breadth of the face of the houi'e, towards 
the eaft, was an hundred cubits. Ezek. xli. 14.—Vidble 
date of affairs : 
He look’d, and faw the face of things quite chang’d, 
The brazen throat of war had ceas’d to roar ; 
All now was turn’d to jollity and game, 
To luxury and riot, fead and dance. Milton. 
Appearance; refemblance ; look.'—His dialogue has fo 
much the face of probability, that fome have midaken it 
for a real conference. Baker. 
At the fird fliock, with blood and power dain’d, 
Nor heav’n, nor lea, their former face retain’d ; 
Fury and art produce effects fo drange, 
They trouble nature, and her vifage change. Waller. 
Preference; fight; date of confrontation.—Ye (hall give 
her unto Eleazar, and one (hall (lay her before his face. 
Numb. xix. 3. 
Jove cannot fear ; then tell me to my face , 
That I of all the gods am lead in grace. Dryden. 
Confidence ; boldnefs ; freedom from ba(hfulnefs or con- 
fufion.—You, (ays the judge to the wolf, have the face to 
challenge that which you never lod ; and you, fays he to 
the fox^ have the confidence to deny that which you have 
dolen. L’Ef range. —Didortion of the face : 
Shame itfelf! 
Why do you make fuch faces? Shakefpeare. 
FACE to FACE. [An adverbial ex predion.] When 
both parties are prefent.—It is not the manner of the Ro¬ 
mans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is 
accufed have his accufers face to face. Acis xxv. 16.—Na¬ 
kedly ; without the interpofition of other bodies.—Now 
we fee through a glafs darkly ; but then face to face. 
j Cor. x i ii. 
To FACE, v. n. To carry a falfe appearance ; to play 
the hypocrite: 
Thou needs mud learn to laugh, to lie, 
To face, to forge, to feoff, to company. Hubbard's Talc. 
To turn the face ; to come in front.— Face about, man ; 
a folaier, and afraid of the enemy ! Dryden. 
To FACE,'z/. a. To mee 4 in front; to oppofe with con¬ 
fidence and firmnefs.— V\\ face this temped, and deferve 
the name of king. Dryden. —To oppofe with impudence ; 
commonly with down : 
We trepan’d the date, and fac’d it down 
With plots and projedts of our own. Hudibras. 
Becaufe he walk’d againd his will, 
Vie fac'd men down that he dood dill. Prior. 
To hand oppofite to.-—The temple is deferibed fquare, 
and the four fronts with open gates, facing the different 
quarters of the world. Pope. —To cover with an additional 
fuperficies; to invert with a covering.—-The fortification 
pf Soleure is faced with marble. Addifon. 
FACE or Faces about; [a phrafe ufed in military 
exercifes, and metaphorically] Change the fubjedt.— 
Good captai t\, faces about-, to fame other VAconxk.BJonfon. 
Faces about, to fome other difeourfe, 
l cannot relifh this. Marmon's Antiquary. 
FA'CELESS, adj. Being without a face. 
FACE I/Ll, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples, 
FAC 
and province of Terra di Lavora : eighteen miles north- 
ead of Capua. 
FACEPAIN'TER, f. A drawep of portraits; a painter 
who draws from the life. 
F ACEPAIN'TING, f. The art of drawing portraits. 
—Georgione, the contemporary of Titian, excelled in por¬ 
traits or facepainting. Dryden. 
FA'CET, f. [facctte, Fr.] A frnall furface ; a fuperfi-- 
cies cut into feveral angles..—Honour that is gained and 
broken upon another, hath tire quicked refledtion, like 
diamonds cut with facets. Bacon. 
FACE'TIOUS, adj. \faceticux, Fr .facetia, Lat.] Gay; 
cheerful ; lively ; merry ; witty. It is ufed both of per- 
fons and fentiments.—Socrates, informed of fome dero¬ 
gating fpeeches ufed of him behind his back, made this 
facetious reply, Let him beat me too, when I am abfent. 
Government of the Tongue. 
FACE'TIOUSLY, adv. Gaily; cheerfully; wittily; 
merrily. 
FACE'TIOUSNESS, f. Cheerful wit; mirth; gaiety, 
FACET'TE, f. See Facet. 
FA'CIES, f. [<pac-K, an appearance, from tpaa, Gr. to 
appear, or from Fix apha, Heb. the face.] With phyfi- 
cians, that particular difpofition of the features, which 
immediately precedes the ftroke of death, is called facies 
Hippocratica, becaufe it has been fo admirably deferibed 
by Hippocrates. In botany, the face or general appear¬ 
ance of a plant. 
FA'CILE, adj. [ facile , Fr. facilis, Lat.] Eafy ; not 
difficult ; performable or attainable with little labour.—■ 
To confine the imagination is as facile a performance as 
the Goteham’s defign of hedging in the cuckoo. Granville. 
—Eafily furmountable ; eafily conquerable. Eafy ofaccefs 
or converfe ; not haughty ; not fupercilious ; not audere : 
I meant (he (hould be courteous, facile, fweet, 
Hating that folemn vice of greatnefs, pride; 
I meant each fofted virtue there (hould meet. 
Fit in that fofter bofom to refide. Bin Jon/on.- 
Pliant; flexible; eafily perfuaded to good or bad ; duc¬ 
tile to a fault.—Some men are of that facile temper, that 
they are wrought upon by every objedt they converfe 
with. Calamy. 
Too facile then, thou hid’d not much gainfay ; 
Nay did’rt permit, approve, and fair difrnifs. ’ Milton. 
To FACI'LITATE, v. a. \_faciliter, Fr.] To make 
eafy ; to free from difficulty ; to > lear from impediments. 
—What produced) a due quantity of animal fpirits, necef- 
CArWyfacilitates the animal and natural motions. Arbut.knot. 
■—A war on the fide of Italy would caufe a great diverfion 
of the French forces, and facilitate the progr-efs of oar 
arms in Spain. Swift. 
FACl'LlTY, f. [facilite, Fr. facilitas, Lat.] Eafinefs 
to be performed ; freedom from difficulty. — A war upon 
the Turks is more, worthy than upon any other Gentiles, 
both in point of religion and in point of honour ; though 
facility and hope of fuccefsmight invite fome other choice. 
Bacon .—Readinefs in performing; dexterity.—They who 
have ftudied have not only learned many excellent things, 
but alfo have acquired a great facility of profiting them- 
felves by reading good authors. Dryden .--Vitious ducti¬ 
lity ; eafinefs (0 be perfuaded to good or bad ; ready com¬ 
pliance.—’Tis a great error to take facility for good-na¬ 
ture; tendernefs without diferetion, is no better than a 
more pardonable folly. L'Efirange .—Eafinefs of accefs; 
complaifance ; condefcenfion ; affability.—He opens and 
yields himfelf to the man of bufinefs with difficulty and 
reluftancy; but offers himfelf to the vifits of a friend 
with facility , and all the meeting readinefs of appetite and 
defire. South. 
FACINE'RIOUS, adj. [corrupted from Facinorous; 
facinus,facindr is, Lat.] Wicked; facinorous.—’Tis (trange, 
’tis very drange, that is the brief and the tedious of it; 
and 
