FACE, is particularly used for the visage of an animal, and especially of man; and comprehends, in the latter, all that part of the head which is not covered with the common long hair. The Latins call it facies, vultus, os, &c.
The human face is called the image of the soul, as being the seat of the principal organs of sense; and the place where the ideas, emotions, &c. of the soul are chiefly set to view. Pride and disdain are shewn in the eye-brows, modesty on the cheeks, majesty in the forehead, &c. It is the face shews the sex, age, temperament, health, or disease, &c.
The face, considered as the index of the passions, habits, &c. of the person, makes the subject of physiognomy. See PHYSIOGNOMY and METOPSCOPY.
Anatomists usually divide the face into two parts, the upper and lower: The upper is the front, or forehead; the lower includes the eyes, nose, ears, mouth, and chin. See ANATOMY, no 17, &c. 366. 404. 405. 406.