Crossword clues for facer
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Facer \Fa"cer\ (f[=a]"s[~e]r), n.
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One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person. [Obs.]
There be no greater talkers, nor boasters, nor fasers.
--Latimer. -
A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy. [Collog.]
I should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had hollowed when I got a facer.
--C. Kingsley. a serious difficulty with which one is suddenly faced.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An unexpected and stunning blow or defeat 2 (context obsolete English) One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person. 3 (context obsolete English) A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy.
WordNet
n. (a dated Briticism) a serious difficulty with which one is suddenly faced
Wikipedia
Facer is a single by German band X Marks the Pedwalk. It was released by Zoth Ommog in Europe in CD format.
Usage examples of "facer".
Being a Mormonite Jesuit was better than being a Facer, but frankly, religion was for other people: Earthers, old people, pharmers trapped in leaky habs.
What if she got scared of zombie Facer nuns and just forgot the whole thing?
Your Facer buddies were probably the ones that gassed and kidnapped us.
Looking around, I saw people lying on the floor gasping and holding their faces, while Facer nuns stuffed them into rescue bubbles.
It goes against the grain with me to tie up a cove as can plant me as wisty a facer as you did, sir!
I was sorely tempted to plant Jack a facer on seeing him take you up in his arms.
Garrety related you delivered a facer that would have done a Corinthian proud.
During an attack by a renegade faction of the Facers, Kapera broadcasts a plea for help, and Nanoannie hears her.
But I let her tow me like a balloon on a string, out the door and down corridors filled with kidnapped corpgeeks handcuffed to Facers in red robes.
See, funding from Earthbound Facers might dry up, or the political climate on Earth might cut further support.
We were building the Facers an antimatter drive able to travel faster than anything of its size in the universe.
CRYSTAL SPIRIT, the Facers plan to launch their own expedition to a habitable extra solar planet called Yggdrasil, which circles Eta Cassiopeia, some twenty light years from our Sun.
The Facers also shanghai an assortment of Utopian corpgeeks and hapless bystanders, in order to populate the starship and colonize Yggdrasil.
CRYOSLEEP PROTOCOL, based on Martian bacterial processes, which would allow the Facers to safely freeze passengers for two hundred thousand years, long enough to travel to Yggdrasil, thus avoiding the expense and complications of a generation starship.
Speaking of Facers, we found out from a shareholder that Crystal Spirit and Cayce got into a soyuzoid and headed for Mars.