▪ 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.
| 1674 Cotton Complete Gamester xv. (1680) 96 Then the bottom fac'd Cards are upwards. 1868 Pardon Card Player 21 Faced cards necessitate a new deal. |
b. Of a body of soldiers: That has faced or turned about.
| 1796 Instr. & 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.
| 1661 Pepys Diary 13 June, My gray cloth suit and faced white coate. 1867 Smyth 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.
| 1865 Lubbock 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.
| 1875 Sat. 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.
| c 1500 Bk. Maid Emlyn in Anc. Poet. Tracts (Percy Soc.) 20 Faced lyke an aungell. 1576 Newton Lemnie's Complex. (1633) 110 Sowre countenanced, faced like death. 1599 Minsheu Dial. Sp. & Eng. (1623) 67 The Devill..brought the blush-faced young man to the Court. 1624 Ford, etc. Sun's Darling ii. i, Rural fellows, fac'd Like lovers of your Laws. 1632 Lithgow Trav. vi. 293 We marched through a fiery faced plaine. 1634 Sir T. Herbert Trav. 213 The Bats..are faced like Monkeyes. 1710 Swift Jrnl. to Stella 23 Sept., He is a rawboned faced fellow. 1863 Sat. Rev. 124 Their leafy height, that winter soon Left leafless to the cold-faced moon. 1893 H. G. Hutchinson Golfing 21 These short-faced clubs. 1897 Encycl. Sport I. 467/2 A straight-faced club. 1897 [see face n. 15 b]. 1909 P. 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’.
| 1889 Daily 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.
| 1794 Sporting Mag. III. 41 ‘We are all faced cards’. ‘I hope..you are not all Kings’. 1847–78 in Halliwell. 1869 in Peacock Gloss. Lonsdale 29. 1879 in G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk. 138. |
4. Printing. (See quot.)
| 1888 Jacobi 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).