face vb. (1 a 16th cent. use)
1.
to show a false
face, maintain a false appearance
1H6 V. iii. 141
“flatter, face, or
feign.”
2.
to brave, bully Shr. IV. iii. 125, &c.; “ down,” insist or
maintain to a person's face that . . . Err. III. i. 6; “
it out,” brazen it out H5 III. ii. 36; “
out of,” exclude impudently from, bully
out of Tw.N. IV. ii. 103, V. i. 92, H5 III. vii. 95; see
also CARD sb. 1
3.
to trim Shr. IV. iii. 123 (to a
tailor, quibblingly) “Thou
hast f-d many things,”
1H4 V. i. 74 (fig.)
“To the garment of
rebellion With some fine
colour.”
