Note: Face is used either adjectively or as part of a
      compound; as, face guard or face-guard; face cloth;
      face plan or face-plan; face hammer.
{Face ague} (Med.), a form of neuralgia, characterized by
   acute lancinating pains returning at intervals, and by
   twinges in certain parts of the face, producing convulsive
   twitches in the corresponding muscles; -- called also {tic
   douloureux}.
{Face card}, one of a pack of playing cards on which a human
   face is represented; the king, queen, or jack.
{Face cloth}, a cloth laid over the face of a corpse.
{Face guard}, a mask with windows for the eyes, worn by
   workman exposed to great heat, or to flying particles of
   metal, stone, etc., as in glass works, foundries, etc.
{Face hammer}, a hammer having a flat face.
{Face joint} (Arch.), a joint in the face of a wall or other
   structure.
{Face mite} (Zo["o]ll.), a small, elongated mite ({Demdex
   folliculorum}), parasitic in the hair follicles of the
   face.
{Face mold}, the templet or pattern by which carpenters,
   ect., outline the forms which are to be cut out from
   boards, sheet metal, ect.
{Face plate}.
    (a) (Turning) A plate attached to the spindle of a lathe,
        to which the work to be turned may be attached.
    (b) A covering plate for an object, to receive wear or
        shock.
    (c) A true plane for testing a dressed surface. --Knight.
{Face wheel}. (Mach.)
    (a) A crown wheel.
    (b) A Wheel whose disk face is adapted for grinding and
        polishing; a lap.
{Cylinder face} (Steam Engine), the flat part of a steam
   cylinder on which a slide valve moves.
{Face of an anvil}, its flat upper surface.
{Face of a bastion} (Fort.), the part between the salient and
   the shoulder angle.
{Face of coal} (Mining), the principal cleavage plane, at
   right angles to the stratification.
{Face of a gun}, the surface of metal at the muzzle.
{Face of a place} (Fort.), the front comprehended between the
   flanked angles of two neighboring bastions. --Wilhelm.
{Face of a square} (Mil.), one of the sides of a battalion
   when formed in a square.
{Face of a} {watch, clock, compass, card etc.}, the dial or
   graduated surface on which a pointer indicates the time of
   day, point of the compass, etc.
{Face to face}.
    (a) In the presence of each other; as, to bring the
        accuser and the accused face to face.
    (b) Without the interposition of any body or substance.
        ``Now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to
        face.'' 1 --Cor. xiii. 12.
    (c) With the faces or finished surfaces turned inward or
        toward one another; vis [`a] vis; -- opposed to {back
        to back}.
{To fly in the face of}, to defy; to brave; to withstand.
{To make a face}, to distort the countenance; to make a
   grimace. --Shak.