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(hi if’fas), a. and ». I, a. Showing since the time of Edva half of the face: as, a half-face picture. ward VI. IL, n. 1. In mil it. tactics, a turning of the I ranged too high: what face 45° to the right or left, used in making draws me down oblique marches to the right or left.—2, A Into the common day? raised floor or platform. Hall i well. [Eng.] Is it the weight of that half-crown half-faced (hi if’fast),a. 1. Thin-faced; hence, Which I shall have to meager; thin; imperfect. pay? Tennyson, Will Water- With all other odd ends of your half-faced English. [proof. Nashe, Pierce Penile e. 2. A gold coin worth But out upon this half-fac’d fellowship! Shak., 1 Hen. IV., i. 3. 2s. 6d., formerly cur- This same half-faced fellow, Shadow, presents no rent in England, and mark to the enemy; the foeman may with as great aim first i ued by Henry level at the edge of a penknife. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iii. 2. VII. 2. Showing half the face; also, stamped with half-curlew (hi if’- a profile, as a coin. kér’Iw), n. 1. The whimbrel, or jack- George Pye board? honest George? why cam’st thou in half-fac'd, muftled so? Puritan, iii. 6. (Nares.) curlew of Europe, Numenius pheopus. You half-fae’d groat! you thick-cheek’d chitty face! Robert Earl of Huntington. (Norfolk, Eng.]—2. Half-faced camp, among frontiersmen, a camp or shel- The European barrere open on the south side. [Southern and western tailed godwit, Li- 5.) Reverse. mos a lapponica. C. Silver Half-crown of Queen Anne, Sleeping in half-faced camps, where the heavy air of Swains on. (Norfolk, 1704; British Museum. (Size of the the rank woods was in their lungs all night, or in the Eng. ] original.) fouler atmosphere of overcrowded cabins, they [Illinois pioneers] were especially subject to miasmatic fevers. half-dealt, x. [ME. halfdele = Dan. halvdel; The Century, XX XIII. 379.