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ure, 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 false learning is good sense defaced. Pope.

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 cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate. A deed may be avoided by delivering it up to be cancelled; that is, to have lines drawn over it in the form of latticework or cancelli; the phrase is now used figuratively for any manner of ob…

nly; in truth; verily. [Archaic] Certes it great pity was to see Him his nobility so foul deface. Spenser.

The act of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured; defacement; deformity; disfigurement. Gauden.

To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform. Disfiguring not God's likeness, but their own. Milton.

That which disfigures; a defacement; a blot. Uncommon expressions . . . are a disfigurement rather than any embellishment of discourse. Hume.

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

Any fixture or attachment designed to protect or secure against injury, soiling, or defacement, theft or loss; as:

ive; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface. I pray you mar no more trees with wiring love songs in their barks. Shak. But mirth is marred, and the good cheer is lost. Dryden. Ire, envy, and despair Which marred all his borrowed visage. Milton.

To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine.

To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in. And thence proceed to nicking sashes. Prior. The itch of his affection should not then Have nicked his captainship. Shak.

up or over; as, to rub up silver. The whole business of our redemption is to rub over the defaced copy of the creation. South.

A slight iregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.

To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste. [Obs.] They [the colors] disfigure the stuff and spill the whole workmanship. Puttenham. Spill not the morning, the quintessence of day, in recreations. Fuller.

A blunder; a failure; a fall from rectitude. One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life. L'Estrange.

Hence, one who willfully destroys or defaces any work of art or literature. The Vandals of our isle, Sworn foes to sense and law. Cowper.

ndals; ferocious cruelty; hostility to the arts and literature, or willful destruction or defacement of their monuments.

Eaten into, defaced, or worn, by exposure to the weather. Coleridge.