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Disfigurement; deformity. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured; deformity. Milton.

One who disfigures.

To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look. They disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Matt. vi. 16.

To make swollen and disfigured or sullied by weeping; as, her eyes or cheeks were beblubbered.

To weep noisily, or so as to disfigure the face; to cry in a childish manner. She wept, she blubbered, and she tore her hair. Swift.

ecrepit, surely was very beautiful when he was young. South. Not once perceive their foul disfigurement But boast themselves more comely than before. Milton.

ogging. He sunk beneath the cumbrous weight. Swift. That cumbrousand unwieldy style which disfigures English composition so extensively. De Quincey.

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…

That which mars or disfigures. Bacon.

One who, or that which, defaces or disfigures.

To undo; to disfigure; to destroy. [Obs.] His unkindness may defeat my life. Shak.

Disfigurement; deformity. [Obs.] "Strange defeatures in my face." Shak.

To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure. Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world. Shak.

Unnatural or distorted in form; having a deformity; misshapen; disfigured; as, a deformed person; a deformed head. -- De*form"ed*ly, adv. -- De*form"ed*ness, n.

The act of making unsightly; disfigurement. [R.] To substitute jury masts at whatever desightment or damage in risk. London Times.

To defile; to disfigure. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

To disfigure. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

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

Dishonored; disgraced; disfigured. [Obs.] Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears, Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears. Dryden.