• IPA: /feɪst/

1. Simple past tense and past participle of face

faced (not comparable)

1. (in combination) Having a specified type or number of faces.
   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene 3,

     The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon! / Where got'st thou that goose look?

   • c. 1694, William Bradshaw and Robert Midgley, Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy, Volume 7, London: 1754, Letter VI, p. 148,

     He either heaves out fulsome hypochondriac Sighs, with supercilious Looks, and Chaps set like the Furrows of a sour-faced Hagi; or else he is tickled into a loud ungovernable Laughter, and all his Carriage is ridiculous and wanton.

   • 1865, Walt Whitman, “Drum-Taps: O Tan-faced Prairie-boy”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], published 1892, OCLC 1514723 ↗, page 250 ↗:

     O tan-faced prairie-boy, / […] / You came, taciturn, with nothing to give—we but look'd on each other, / When lo! more than all the gifts of the world you gave me.

   • 1918, Siegried Sassoon, "Suicide in the Trenches" in Counter-Attack and Other Poems, London: Heinemann, p. 81,

     You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye / Who cheer when soldier lads march by, / Sneak home and pray you'll never know / The hell where youth and laughter go.

   • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 1,

     Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons.

2. Having the outer surface dressed, with the front, as of a dress, covered ornamentally with another material.

faced

1. (slang) drunk

   That night was the first time I ever got faced.

• See also Thesaurus:drunk