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, or, &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 shown in the eyebrows, modesty on the cheeks, majesty in the forehead,
head, &c. It is the face shows 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.