the surface, or first side which a body presents to the eye: See SURFACE. We say, the face of the earth, of the waters, &c. Polyhedrons have several faces: See POLYHEDRON. A die, or cube, has six faces: See CUBE.

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 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 METOPOSCOPY.

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.

Poul or Pimpled Face. See GUTTA ROSACEA.

Hippocratic Face, is when the nose is sharp, the eyes hollow, the temples sunk, the ears cold and contracted, and their lobes inverted; the skin about the forehead is hard, tense, and dry; the countenance is pale, greenish, or blackish. Some call this a cadaverous face. If it appears within three days after the onset of an acute disease, it indicates death.

in the military art, a word of command, intimating to turn about: thus, face to the right, is to turn upon the left heel a quarter-round to the right; and, face to the left, is to turn upon the right heel a quarter-round to the left.