faced

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of face

1. in compoundsnot comparableHaving a specified type or number of faces.

   The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon! / Where got'st thou that goose look?

   c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]

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   c. 1694, William Bradshaw and Robert Midgley, Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy, Volume 7, London: 1754, Letter VI, p. 148, https://books.google.ca/books?id=unlKAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false He either heaves out fulsome hypochondriac Sighs, with supercilious Looks, and Chaps set like the Furrows of a sour-faced Hagi; or else he is tickled into a loud ungovernable Laughter, and all his Carriage is ridiculous and wanton.

   O tan-faced prairie-boy, / […] / You came, taciturn, with nothing to give—we but look'd on each other, / When lo! more than all the gifts of the world you gave me.

   1865, Walt Whitman, “Drum-Taps: O Tan-faced Prairie-boy”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], published 1892, →OCLC, page 250

   You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye / Who cheer when soldier lads march by, / Sneak home and pray you'll never know / The hell where youth and laughter go.

   1918, Siegfried Sassoon, “Suicide in the Trenches”, in Counter-Attack and Other Poems, London: Heinemann, page 81

   Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons.

   1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 1

2. not comparableHaving the outer surface dressed, with the front, as of a dress, covered ornamentally with another material.

   The cuffs were faced with velvet.

   Synonyms: lined

3. not comparableWith a specific kind of face.

   stony-faced

comparative more faced · superlative most faced

1. slangdrunk

   That night was the first time I ever got faced.