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Having a face like a monkey or a pug; monkey-faced.

White-faced; -- used contemptuously. Clarke.

Having a face left as it comes from the quarry and not smoothed with the chisel or point; -- said of stones.

Easily confused or put out of countenance; diffident; bashful; modest. Your shamefaced virtue shunned the people's prise. Dryden.

Over-bashful; sheepish.

Having one surface; -- said specif. of aëroplanes or aërocurves that are covered with fabric, etc., on only one side.

A soft-spoken, crafty hypocrite. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Having a feminine countenance or complexion; smooth-faced; girlish. Fenton.

nything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, the surface of the earth; the surface of a diamond; the surface of the body. The bright surface of this ethereous mold. Milton.

The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.

That property, due to molecular forces, which exists in the surface film of all liquids and tends to bring the contained volume into a form having the least superficial area. The thickness of this film, amounting to less than a thousandth of a millimeter, is considered to equal the radius of the sphere of molecular act…

A form of machine for dressing the surface of wood, metal, stone, etc.

One who has a sickly, pale complexion. Shak.

Having a sickly complexion; pale. Burton.

Pertaining to tufa; consisting of, or resembling, tufa.

To remove the face or cover from; to unmask; to expose.

Having a thin, sharp face, like a weasel.

Having a pale or white face, as from fright. "Whey-faced cavaliers." Aytoun.

One who is pale, as from fear.

A white mark in the forehead of a horse, descending almost to the nose; -- called also white-blaze.