| 单词 | longfaced |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslong-faced b. Of a thing: having a face or surface of a specified kind; spec. (of a golf club) having a particular type of playing surface, as long-faced, short-faced, etc.For more established compounds, as metal-, rock-faced, etc., see the first element. ΚΠ 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. viii. 375 Where huge and hilly lands Haue stone-fac'd scurrile bounds. 1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) ii. cxxxix. 23 For his rich Ring of smoothfac'd Diamond. 1840 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 3 402/1 The improved metallic wheel with wood-faced tyre. 1861 All Year Round 15 June 287/2 Marble-faced houses. 1893 H. G. Hutchinson Golfing 21 These short-faced clubs. 1909 P. A. Vaile Mod. Golf viii. 120 Don't choose a big-headed club, and avoid a long-faced one. 1931 C. E. Munroe & J. E. Tiffany Physical Testing Explosives 81 A carborundum-faced shoe..is made by facing a wooden lock with aloxite cloth and then slipping it into dovetailed grooves on the lower face of the shoe. 1992 Hist. Preserv. Mar.–Apr. 65/2 The imposing, granite-faced 1903 Piedmont Hotel..resisted the force of a wrecker's ball. long-faced long-faced adj. having an unhappy, disappointed, or exaggeratedly solemn facial expression. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [adjective] flatc1400 hardc1400 low-cheeredc1400 large?a1425 ruscledc1440 well-visagedc1440 platter-faced1533 well-faced1534 full-faced1543 fair-faced1553 bright-faceda1560 crab-faced1563 crab-snouted1563 crab-tree-faced1563 long-visaged1584 owlya1586 wainscot-faced1588 flaberkin1592 rough-hewn1593 angel-faced1594 round-faced1594 crab-favoured1596 rugged1596 weasel-faced1596 rough-faced1598 half-faced1600 chitty1601 lenten-faced1604 broad-faced1607 dog-faced1607 weaselled-faced1607 wry-faced1607 maid-faced1610 warp-faced1611 ill-faceda1616 lean-faceda1616 old-faceda1616 moon-faced1619 monkey-faced1620 chitty-face1622 chitty-faceda1627 lean-chapt1629 antic-faced1635 bloat-faced1638 bacon-facea1640 blue-faced1640 hatchet-faced1648 grave1650 lean-jawed1679 smock-faced1684 lean-visaged1686 flaber1687 baby-faced1692 splatter-faced1707 chubby1722 puggy1722 block-faced1751 haggard-looking1756 long-faced1762 haggardly1763 fresh-faced1766 dough-faced1773 pudding-faced1777 baby-featured1780 fat-faced1782 haggard1787 weazen-face1794 keen1798 ferret-like1801 lean-cheeked1812 mulberry-faced1812 open-faced1813 open-countenanced1819 chiselled1821 hatchety1821 misfeatured1822 terse1824 weazen-faced1824 mahogany-faced1825 clock-faced1827 sharp1832 sensual1833 beef-faced1838 weaselly1838 ferret-faced1840 sensuous1843 rat-faced1844 recedent1849 neat-faced1850 cherubimical1854 pinch-faced1859 cherubic1860 frownya1861 receding1866 weak1882 misfeaturing1885 platopic1885 platyopic1885 pro-opic1885 wind-splitting1890 falcon-face1891 blunt-featured1916 bun-faced1927 fish-faced1963 1762 T. Bridges Homer Travestie I. i. 60 To this sad pass Atrides' freaks Had brought the rueful long-fac'd Greeks. 1883 W. Haslam Yet not I xxi. 222 He was looking well and happy, not at all long-faced and lanky. 1927 Princeton Alumni Weekly 22 Apr. 805/2 We're terribly depressed. I never saw so many long-faced, lugubrious undergraduates in my life. 2004 E. Graver Awake x. 191 A Modigliani portrait of a long-faced boy. < as lemmas |
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