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To write or print on the face of (a draft, bill, etc.); as, to enface drafts with memoranda.

Hypocritical. Shak.

Having a visible fiber embodied in the surface of; -- applied esp. to a kind of paper for checks, drafts, etc.

See Advancing-surface, above.

Mirror-faced; reflecting the sentiments of another. [R.] "The glass-faced flatterer." Shak.

Showing only part of the face; wretched looking; meager. Shak.

Incapable of being effaced; indelible; ineradicable.

So as not to be effaceable.

Double-faced; deceitful. Janus-faced lock, one having duplicate faces so as to go upon a right or a left hand door, the key entering on either side indifferently. Knight.

Having a thin face.

Having a round, full face.

Having a face of a mulberry color, or blotched as if with mulberry stains.

Having many faces.

To face or look (one) out of countenance; to resist or bear down by bold looks or effrontery; to brave. Shak. Having outfaced all the world. South.

A white person; -- an appellation supposed to have been applied to the whites by the American Indians. J. F. Cooper.

way, so as to give nearly true edges; -- said of squared stones that are otherwise quarry-faced.

Having a broad, flat face.

oem; an introduction, or series of preliminary remarks. This superficial tale Is but a preface of her worthy praise. Shak. Heaven's high behest no preface needs. Milton.

The writer of a preface.

o you! -- a familiar salutation or welcome. [Obs.] Master page, good master page, sit. Proface! Shak.