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"Section F, G and H"

6.


Lake Leman wooes me with its crystal
face.
Byron.


2. That part of a body, having several sides,
which may be seen from one point, or which is presented toward a
certain direction; one of the bounding planes of a solid; as, a cube
has six faces.


3. (Mach.) (a) The
principal dressed surface of a plate, disk, or pulley; the principal
flat surface of a part or object.
(b) That
part of the acting surface of a cog in a cog wheel, which projects
beyond the pitch line.
(c) The width of a
pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end; as, a pulley or cog
wheel of ten inches face.


4. (Print.) (a) The
upper surface, or the character upon the surface, of a type, plate,
etc.
(b) The style or cut of a type or
font of type.


5. Outside appearance; surface show; look;
external aspect, whether natural, assumed, or acquired.


To set a face upon their own malignant
design.


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