half-faced (1 cf. ‘grotes, halfe grotes, and shyllinges with halfe faces’ Stow's Chronicle, 1561)
1.
(orig. of a coin)
having a profile stamped upon it like the groats and
half-groats first struck in 1503 (18th year of Henry
VII)
John I. i. 94
“A groat”
(applied contemptuously to a thin-faced man);
so “half-faced fellow”
2H4 III. ii. 286.
2.
with only one half of
the face visible
2H6 IV. i. 98
“our half-faced sun,
striving to shine.”
3.
imperfect,
half-and-half 1H4 I. iii.
208.
