half-facen.
1.
a. Half of a face; the face as seen in profile; a profile on a coin, etc. Also attrib.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > [noun] > outline of
half-facea1549
side-face1650
profile1776
society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > obverse or reverse of coin > device stamped on > specific
crossc1330
crouch1393
about-writingc1449
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legend1611
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short-cross1870
long cross1904
a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (1870) 137 They haue halfe face crownes.
1565 J. Stow Summarie Eng. Chrons. f. 169v, A new coyne of siluer; as grotes, halfegrotes, and shyllinges with halfe-faces.
1608 Bp. J. Hall Epist. I. i. v. 45 We saw a boy there, whose halfe-face was deuoured by one of them [sc. witch-wolues].
1656 J. Harrington Oceana (1771) 28 Unless we would draw him with a half face.
1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. i. 46 Those Ravishing, and charming Graces, Are all made up, of two Half faces.
1859 Tennyson Elaine in Idylls of King 213 Then turn'd the tongueless man From the half-face to the full eye.
b. A thin face: cf. half-faced adj. 1.
2. Mil. The action or position of facing half-way to the right or left, i.e. at an angle of 45 degrees.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > evolution > [noun] > other evolutions
inversion1627
conversion1635
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platoon exercise1797
half-face1833
right (or left) shoulders (in)!1833
three-quarters face1833
about-face1835
ployment1861
1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. i. 14 Right, or Left, Half Face—each man will make an exact half face, as directed, by drawing back or advancing the right foot one inch, by which the whole will stand individually in echellon.
1847 Infantry Man. (1854) 22 Make a half-face to the right.
Derivatives
half-face v. Mil. intr., to make a half-face.
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1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 128/2 To half-face is to take half the usual distance between the [front and] right or left face, in order to give an oblique direction to the line.
half-facing n.
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1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. i. 20 The men move on the oblique lines upon which they are..placed..as described in the half-facings.
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