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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One that faces, especially a device used in smoothing or dressing a surface.
  2. n. An unexpected, stunning blow or defeat.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who faces; one who puts on a bold face.
  2. n. A severe blow on the face; hence, any sudden cheek that staggers one.
  3. n. A bumper of wine.
  4. n. A post-office employee whose business is to arrange letters with their faces in one direction.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An unexpected and stunning blow or defeat
  2. n. obsolete One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person.
  3. n. obsolete A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person.
  2. n. Collog. A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy.
  3. n. obsolescent Briticism, obsolescent Briticism a serious difficulty with which one is suddenly faced.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. (a dated Briticism) a serious difficulty with which one is suddenly faced

Examples

  • “This was a "facer"; the librarian seemed to have brought up against a stone wall, but she waited, knowing that a situation, unlike a knot, will sometimes untie itself.”

    A Librarian's Open Shelf

  • “Before he could reply, Ike had another "facer" for him.”

    The Mystery at Number Six

  • “In breathless silence the little group of spectators watched his movements, and when, with sharply exhaled breath, he planted a crashing "facer" straight from the shoulder squarely upon the leathern disk they sprang eagerly forward to note the result.”

    The Copper Princess A Story of Lake Superior Mines

  • “This would have been a "facer" to any but a true son of Uncle Sam.”

    Worldly Ways and Byways

  • “That from you, and in the presence of Weissmann, is a 'facer'!”

    The Tyranny of the Dark

  • “It was a facer to me, and with quite a pronounced fellow-feeling for”

    CHAPTER VII

  • “This was what Bertie Wooster would have called “a bit of a facer”; I was groping for an apt response when Clark pressed on.”

    The Pity of War

  • “Now, having proved you can solve any problem, dear blogging friends, I have a real facer for you.”

    Queens and Curses « Tales from the Reading Room

  • “But Mr. Hornaday's reply is such a facer to him and his homocentric theory that he has to do something.”

    The Other Animals

  • “In fact, it is propinquity that usually gives the facer to the logic of youth.”

    Chapter 13

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  1. Pacer
  2. acer
  1. baser
  2. bracer
  1. chaser
  2. eraser
  1. lacer
  2. pacer
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  2. racer
  1. spacer
  2. tracer

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