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noun
Facies  n.  
1.
The anterior part of the head; the face.
2.
(Biol.) The general aspect or habit of a species, or group of species, esp. with reference to its adaptation to its environment.
3.
(Zool.) The face of a bird, or the front of the head, excluding the bill.
Facies Hippocratica. (Med.) See Hippocratic.





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"Facies" Quotes from Famous Books



... how much importance has been attributed to the caul will do well to consult Levinus Lemnius, De Miraculis Occultis Naturae. Chapter viii. of Book II. is headed: De infantium recens natorum galeis, seu tenui mollique membrana, qua facies tanquam larva, aut personata tegmine obducta, ad primum lucis intuitum ...
— Current Superstitions - Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk • Various
... surface, and at most glance dimly a few feet into its depths, hardly dream of. Even though one has seen these strange creatures "preserved" in museums, he does not know them, for the alleged preservation there has retained little enough of essential facies of the real creature, which the dead shell can no ...
— A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) - Aspects Of Recent Science • Henry Smith Williams
... Facies fieri in omnibus Judieiis tuis equam et rectam justioiam, et discreeionem, in misericordia ...
— An Essay on the Trial By Jury • Lysander Spooner
... might be omitted in the language without loss, since one of its sounds might be supplied by, s, and the other by k, but that it preserves to the eye the etymology of words, as face from facies, captive from captivus. ...
— A Grammar of the English Tongue • Samuel Johnson
... ferre manu? Parva puella refert: mater, perizomate prunas Portabo flammae ne nocuisse queant. Quid facies igitur, Anus inquit? Serviet hicce Mi cinis, illa refert; quo super hasce feram. Mox exclamat Anus: disco, moriorque profecto. En disco moriens quae latuere senem: O, ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various


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