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A tendency of leaves or other organs of plants to have their dorsal surface faced towards the rays of light.

To make dusk or obscure. [R.] Not utterly defaced, but only duskened. Nicolls.

Capable of being effaced.

essing the bounds of duty or decorum; insulting presumptuousness; shameless boldness; barefaced assurance. Corruption lost nothing of its effrontery. Bancroft.

Rubbed or scraped out; effaced; obliterated.

To Confront impudently; to bully. I will neither be facednor braved. Shak.

One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person. [Obs.] There be no greater talkers, nor boasters, nor fasers. Latimer.

and leads those in rear of him. -- File marching, the marching of a line two deep, when faced to the right or left, so that the front and rear rank march side by side. Brande & C. --Indian file, or Single file, a line of men marching one behind another; a single row. -- On file, preserved in an orderly collection.…

A flat-faced fulling hammer.

et or weasel of the same name.[Obs.] He came to the stake in a fair black gown furred and faced with foins. Fuller.

Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as, a glaring crime. -- Glar"ing*ly, adv.

Having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutter's hammer; -- said of building stone.

an aperture; a gap; a chasm; esp., a defect in a manuscript, where some part is lost or effaced; a space where something is wanting; a break.

erlike material, and the layers of comb are hung together by columns. The American white- faced hornet (V. maculata) is larger and has similar habits. Hornet fly (Zoöl.), any dipterous insect of the genus Asilus, and allied genera, of which there are numerous species. They are large and fierce flies which capture bees…

Burnt in; ineffaceable. Her inburnt, shamefaced thoughts. P. Fletcher.

That can not be removed, washed away, blotted out, or effaced; incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten; as, indelible characters; an indelible stain; an indelible impression on the memory.

Incapable of being effaced; indelible; ineradicable.

was, that water is the original principle of all things. -- Ionic type, a kind of heavy-faced type (as that of the following line).

Made of, or faced with, marble. [Obs.] "The marbled mansion." Shak.

A perforated stone-faced runner for grinding.