Phase

Webster's Practical Dictionary- A Practical Dictionary of the Englih Language · 1884 · p. 308

faz, n.; pi. Phases, fa'zej, Pha's is, n.; pi. -ses, -sez. That which is exhibited to the eye; apoil; linger or ink, then, boNboN, chair, get. pearance which anything manifests, esp. any one among varying appearances of the same object. See Moox. 308