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646. 5. Confidence, as indicated by the expre ion of the countenance; effrontery; audacity; a urance; impudence. I cannot with any face ask you to trust me with anything in future. J. Bradford, Works (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 354. However I may set a face and talk, I am not valiant. Beau , and Fl ., Maid's Tragedy, iii. 2. Without any evidence, nay, in the face of the strongest former age a set of opinions which no people ever held. Macaulay , Lord Bacon. In face of you, as you entered the door, was the entrance to the working-kitchen, or scullery. Mrs. Gaskell , Sylvia's Lovers, vi. 7. In an at . , technically, a part of the head or skull distinguished from the cranium proper or brain-box, the facial region or facies, containing the eyes, nose, and mouth, but not the ears. See facial .-8. In entom., the front of an insect's head between the compound eyes. In descriptions the term is applied to a more or le definite area, which varies for the different orders. 9. In bot ., the upper or inner or free surface of an organ, as opposed to the back . That part of the anther to which the filament is attached, and which is generally towards the petals, is the back, the opposite being the face . Encyc . Brit ., IV. 137. 10. The front or the principal surface of any thing; the surface to view, or the side or part of a side on which the use of the thing depends: as, the face of the earth or of the waters; the face of a clock (the dial), of a plane (the sole), of a hammer (the striking surface of the head), of a type (the surface giving the impre ion), etc. Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits. Ezek. xli. 14. A generall rumour of a generall peace now spread it self over all the face of those tormented Countries. Capt. John Smith , True Travels, I. 10. An unusual light rested, to him, on the face of the world. W. M. Baker, New Timothy, p. 323. And now the only thing that had the springs of life within its bosom was the great, sweet-voiced clock, whose faithful face had kept unchanged amidst all the swift pageantry of changes. The Century , XXXV. 947. 11. A plane surface of a solid; one of the surfaces bounding a solid: as, the face of an arrowhead. Thus, a cube or die has six faces ; an octahedron has eight faces .-12. That part of the cog of a geared wheel which projects beyond the pitch-line.-13. The working or cutting portion of a grinding-wheel, or the edge of any cutting-tool.-14. That part of the surface of a valve which comes in contact with the seat. Rankine .-15. In mining , but chiefly in coal mining: (a) Properly, the front of a working; that part of the coal-seam which is being mined. Sometimes also called the working - face . Tunnels of a large face are those whose height is six or seven feet, and are about eight feet wide.