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Faced or covered with copper; as, copper-faced type.

Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship.

See Counterfesance. [Obs.]

Having a sour, disagreeable countenance. Beau & Fl.

Of or pertaining to the cranium and face; as, the craniofacial angle.

White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the natural complexion. Thou cream-faced loon. Shak.

With hanging head; hence, dispirited; dejected; cowed. Let it make thee crestfullen; Ay, and allay this thy abortive pride. Shak.

Actually; in fact; in reality; as, a king de facto, -- distinguished from a king de jure, or by right.

To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of; as, to deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a record. "This high face defaced." Emerson. So by fa…

The act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration.

One who, or that which, defaces or disfigures.

To cause fail. [Obs.]

Failure; miscarriage. [Obs.] Possibility of defailance in degree or continuance. Comber.

Failure. [Obs.] Barrow.

efly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc. To show what may be practicably and safely defalcated from the [the estimates]. Burke.

A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; set-off. Abbott.

A defaulter or embezzler. [Modern]

To lop off; to bate. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion.

Containing defamation; injurious to reputation; calumnious; slanderous; as, defamatory words; defamatory writings.