Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FACE-PAINT-ING, n.

The act or art of painting portraits. Dryden.

FAC'ET, n. [Fr. facette, from face; Sp. faceta.]

A little face; a small surface; as, the facets of a diamond.

FA-CETE, a. [L. facetus.]

Gay; cheerful. [Not in use.] Burton.

FA-CETE-LY, adv.

Sportively; with good humor. [Not used.] Burton.

FA-CETE-NESS, n.

Wit; pleasant representation. [Not used.] Hales.

FA-CE'TIAE, n. [FA-CE'TIÆ; plur.; L.]

Witty or humorous writings.

FACETIAE, n. [Faceētiæ. L.]

Witty or humorous writings.

FA-CE'TIOUS, a. [Fr. facetieux; Sp. facecioso; It. faceto; L. facetus; or facetiæ, plur. Qu. Ar. فَكِهَ to be merry.]

1. Merry; sportive; jocular; sprightly with wit and good humor; as, a facetious companion.
2. Witty; full of pleasantry; playful; exciting laughter; as, a facetious story; a facetious reply.

FA-CE'TIOUS-LY, adv.

Merrily; gayly; wittily; with pleasantry.

FA-CE'TIOUS-NESS, n.

Sportive humor; pleasantry; the quality of exciting laughter or good humor.

FA'CIAL, a. [L. facies, face.]

Pertaining to the face; as, the facial artery, vein or nerve. Facial angle, in anatomy, is the angle contained by a line drawn horizontally from the middle of the external entrance of the ear to the edge of the nostrils, and another from this latter point to the superciliary ridge of the frontal bone, serving to measure the elevation of the forehead. Ed. Encyc.

FA'CIAL-LY, adv.

In a facial manner.

FAC'ILE, a. [Fr. facile; Sp. facil; L. facilis, from facio, to make.]

1. Properly, easy to be done or performed; easy; not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor. Order – will render the work facile and delightful. Evelyn.
2. Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable. The facile gates of hell too slightly barred. Milton.
3. Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere or distant. I mean she should be courteous, facile, sweet. B. Jonson.
4. Pliant; flexible; easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a fault. Since Adam, and his facile consort Eve, / Lost Paradise, deceived by me. Milton.

FAC'ILE-LY, adv.

Easily. [Little used.] Herbert.

FAC'ILE-NESS, n.

Easiness to be persuaded. Beaum.

FA-CIL'I-TATE, v.t. [Fr. faciliter, from facilité, L. facilitas, from facilis, easy.]

To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment, or to diminish it; to lessen the labor of. Machinery facilitates manual labor and operations. Pioneers may facilitate the march of an army.

FA-CIL'I-TA-TED, pp.

Made easy or easier.

FA-CIL'I-TA-TING, ppr.

Rendering easy or easier.

FA-CIL-I-TA'TION, n.

The act of making easy. Johnson.

FA-CIL'I-TIES, n. plur.

The means by which the performance of any thing is rendered easy; convenient opportunities or advantages.

FA-CIL'I-TY, n. [Fr. facilité; L. facilitas, from facilis, easy.]

1. Easiness to be performed; freedom from difficulty; ease. He performed the work or operation with great facility. Though facility and hope of success might invite some other choice. Bacon.
2. Ease of performance; readiness proceeding from skill or use; dexterity. Practice gives a wonderful facility in executing works of art.
3. Pliancy; ductility; easiness to be persuaded; readiness of compliance, usually in a bad sense, implying a disposition to yield to solicitations to evil. It Is a grant error to take facility for good nature: tenderness without discretion, is no better than a more pardonable folly. L'Estrange.
4. Easiness of access; complaisance; condescension; affability. He offers himself to the visits of a friend with facility. South.

FA'CING, n.

A covering in front for ornament or defense; as, the facing of a fortification or of a garment.

FA'CING, ppr. [from face.]

1. Fronting; having the face toward; opposite.
2. Covering the fore part.
3. Turning the face.

FA'CING-LY, adv.

In a fronting position.

FA-CIN'O-ROUS, a. [L. facinus.]

Atrociously wicked [Little used.] Shak.