Facial
['feɪʃ(ə)l] or ['feʃl]
Definition
(noun.) care for the face that usually involves cleansing and massage and the application of cosmetic creams.
(noun.) cranial nerve that supplies facial muscles.
(adj.) of or pertaining to the outside surface of an object .
(adj.) of or concerning the face; 'a facial massage'; 'facial hair'; 'facial expression' .
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Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to the face; as, the facial artery, vein, or nerve.
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Definition
adj. of or relating to the face.—adv. Fā′cially.—Facial angle in craniometry the angle formed by lines drawn to show to what extent the jaws are protruding and the forehead receding.
Editor: Margaret
Examples
- If you have ever seen a collie smile you may have some idea of Woola's facial distortion. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- They are more like the Europeans in their facial type than the surrounding yellow Japanese. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He grinned at her, a cracked, stiff, too-tightened-facial-tendoned grin. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- One may study animal life, watch a surgical operation, follow the movement of machinery, take lessons in facial expression or in calisthenics. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Only, shy and retiring as your general manner was, I wondered what personal or facial enormity in me proved so magnetic to your usually averted eyes. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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