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"Section F, G and H"


Fa"cial (?), a. [LL. facialis,
fr. L. facies face : cf. F. facial.] Of or
pertaining to the face; as, the facial artery, vein, or
nerve.
-- Fa"cial*ly, adv.


Facial angle (Anat.), the angle, in a
skull, included between a straight line (ab, in the
illustrations), from the most prominent part of the forehead to the
front efge of the upper jaw bone, and another (cd) from this
point to the center of the external auditory opening. See Gnathic
index
, under Gnathic.


Fa"ci*end (?), n. [From neut. of L.
faciendus, gerundive of facere to do.] (Mach.)
The multiplicand. See Facient, 2.


Fa"cient (?), n. [L. faciens, --
entis, p. pr. of facere to make, do. See Fact.]
1. One who does anything, good or bad; a doer;
an agent.
[Obs.] Bp. Hacket.


2. (Mach.) (a) One of
the variables of a quantic as distinguished from a coefficient.

(b) The multiplier.


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