| abide | endure, undergo, face |
| affront | come face to face with, meet, confront |
| affront | equal, put in balance, set face to face |
| again | against, facing |
| against | in the face of |
| answer | cope with, face, encounter |
| aspect | [of a human face] look, appearance, expression |
| audit | account, reckoning [especially: in the face of God] |
| bald | bare-headed [as a sign of respect] |
| bare | mere, simple |
| bare | threadbare, shabby, ragged |
| bare | worthless, wretched; or: barefaced, shameless |
| bare | unsheathed, exposed |
| bare | unprotected, defenceless, without covering |
| bare | bareness, unadorned state |
| bare | gaunt, lean, needy |
| bare | shave, trim |
| bare-bone | skinny person, fleshless one |
| bare-boned | like a skeleton, fleshless |
| bare-gnawn | totally consumed, worn away to nothing |
| baring | removal, shaving off |
| barked | stripped, peeled bare, destroyed |
| barrenness | area [of skin] worn dry and bare |
| beard | to his face, openly |
| beaver | visor of a helmet, face-guard |
| bide | face, await, undergo |
| blood-drinking | draining the blood away [from the face] |
| blowze | red-faced lass |
| both-sides | two-faced, double-dealing, hypocritical |
| brazen-faced | shameless, unblushing, unabashed |
| broad-fronted | with a broad forehead or face |
| champion | challenge, defy, face |
| cheer | face, look, expression |
| clear | cheerfully, brightly, with unclouded face |
| cold | empty, bare, lacking life |
| cope | encounter, face, have to do [with], come into contact [with] |
| countenance | face up to, confront |
| countenance | expression, look, face |
| current | accepted, genuine, taken at face value |
| dog-ape | [dog-faced] baboon |
| double | deceptively, deceitfully, in a two-faced way |
| face | appearance, outward show, look |
| face | deceive, put on a false face |
| face | confront with impudence, persist in contradicting |
| face | countenance, condone, cover over |
| face | cover over, put a false face on |
| face | bully, intimidate, turn |
| face | exclude, expel; or: deny [to one's face] |
| face | brazen out, carry through shamelessly |
| face | brazen out, carry through shamelessly |
| face | trim with braid, adorn |
| face | confront impudently, defy |
| face | representation, image; skull |
| face-royal | majestic face, face like a king |
| facing | trimming, adorning, decking out |
| fair | fair face, beauty |
| fair-faced | attractive, appealing, presenting a good prospect |
| false-faced | hypocritical, sanctimonious |
| figure | face; or: body |
| fisnomy | physiognomy, face, countenance |
| 'fore | in the face of |
| front | forehead, face |
| front | confront, face, meet |
| fronting | confronting, facing |
| frown | fierce look, severe face |
| gainst | in the face of |
| glass-faced | mirror-faced, self-reflecting |
| good-faced | smooth-faced, pretty |
| Gorgon | generally applied to Medusa, one of three monsters who had snakes in their hair, ugly faces, huge wings, and whose staring eyes could turn people to stone |
| grim-visaged | with a stern face |
| grin | bare the teeth, grimace, snarl |
| ground | face of the earth, globe |
| half-face | profile, side-view |
| half-faced | imperfect, incomplete, defective |
| half-faced | thin-faced, with a pinched look |
| half-faced | [of a coin] showing a monarch's profile; also: clipped, imperfect |
| half-faced | with only half the face visible |
| have | let's face, let's see |
| head | to one's face, frankly, openly |
| high-coloured | flushed, red-faced |
| humble-visaged | with humble faces |
| interview | face-to-face meeting |
| Janus | [pron: 'jaynus] Roman god who guards gates and doors; shown with two faces, one at the back of his head |
| look | face, turn towards |
| mobled | with face muffled up, veiled |
| mopping | grimacing, making faces |
| mouth | make faces, grimace, show scorn |
| naked | bare, austere, unfurnished |
| opposed | opposite, facing |
| outlook | outstare, overcome by facing up to |
| overmatched | outnumbered, faced with superior strength |
| overstare | outstare, face down |
| painting | cosmetics, paint [for the face], beautifying |
| pale-visaged | pale-faced |
| peep | appear, show one's face |
| polled | shorn, cleared, stripped bare |
| propose | face, confront, be ready to meet |
| purple-hued | purple-faced |
| sad-eyed, sad-faced | grave-looking |
| sanguine | red-faced, ruddy-hued |
| seeming | deceptive appearance, two-faced behaviour, pretence |
| shame-faced, shamefast | modest, retiring, shy |
| smooth-faced | plausible, bland, glib, deceitful |
| swart-complexioned | dark-faced, black-looking |
| sweet-faced | good-looking, handsome |
| tallow-face | [contemptuous] face as pale as wax |
| teeth | in the very face of, confronting face-to-face |
| teeth | to my face, in direct opposition |
| tripe-visaged | tripe-faced, flabby |
| turn | turn away, face the other way |
| turn | turn and face the enemy, make a bold front |
| turning | facing the other way, retreating |
| unbarbed | uncovered, unprotected, bare |
| unbonneted | bare-headed; with all modesty |
| unbonneted | bare-headed; recklessly |
| uncovered | bare-headed, with hat in hand [in respect] |
| undergo | fall under, experience, face up to |
| unshrubbed | bare, empty, treeless |
| visage | face, countenance |
| watch | dial, clock face |
| wheel | turn to face in a new direction, circle round |
| whey-face | milk-face, pasty-face |
| yellow | sallow, pasty-faced; or: jealous |