1. Having a full face; esp. of persons, having a full or plump face.
1622. Mabbe, trans. Aleman’s Guzman d’Alf., I. 31. I was a young Lad, ruddy-cheek’t, full-fac’t, and plumpe withall.
1675. Lond. Gaz., No. 980/4. Stolen … a large silver Cup … by a Lodger … a Full-fac’d man.
1796. Hull Advertiser, 3 Sept., 2/2. David Hallett … stout made, of a low stature, and full faced.
1824. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. I. (1863), 230. One side consisting of a full-faced damask rose.
b. said of the moon at full.
1647. H. More, Song of Soul, III. II. xxvii. Not from full-faced Cynthia.
2. Having the face turned fully on the spectator or in some specified direction.
1610. Guillim, Heraldry, VI. v. 265. The full faced Helmet doth signifie direction or command.
1832. Tennyson, Œnone, 79. When all the full-faced presence of the Gods Ranged in the halls of Peleus.
1894. J. P. Hopps, in Westm. Gaz., 7 Feb., 2/1. As full-faced to the sunshine as you are to-day.
