Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

--McElrath.

   Note: Face is used either adjectively or as part of a
         compound; as, face guard or face-guard; face cloth;
         face plan or face-plan; face hammer.

   {Face ague} (Med.), a form of neuralgia, characterized by
      acute lancinating pains returning at intervals, and by
      twinges in certain parts of the face, producing convulsive
      twitches in the corresponding muscles; -- called also {tic
      douloureux}.

   {Face card}, one of a pack of playing cards on which a human
      face is represented; the king, queen, or jack.

   {Face cloth}, a cloth laid over the face of a corpse.

   {Face guard}, a mask with windows for the eyes, worn by
      workman exposed to great heat, or to flying particles of
      metal, stone, etc., as in glass works, foundries, etc.

   {Face hammer}, a hammer having a flat face.

   {Face joint} (Arch.), a joint in the face of a wall or other
      structure.

   {Face mite} (Zo["o]ll.), a small, elongated mite ({Demdex
      folliculorum}), parasitic in the hair follicles of the
      face.

   {Face mold}, the templet or pattern by which carpenters,
      ect., outline the forms which are to be cut out from
      boards, sheet metal, ect.

   {Face plate}.
       (a) (Turning) A plate attached to the spindle of a lathe,
           to which the work to be turned may be attached.
       (b) A covering plate for an object, to receive wear or
           shock.
       (c) A true plane for testing a dressed surface. --Knight.

   {Face wheel}. (Mach.)
       (a) A crown wheel.
       (b) A Wheel whose disk face is adapted for grinding and
           polishing; a lap.

Hammer \Ham"mer\, n. [OE. hamer, AS. hamer, hamor; akin to D.
   hamer, G. & Dan. hammer, Sw. hammare, Icel. hamarr, hammer,
   crag, and perh. to Gr. ? anvil, Skr. a?man stone.]
   1. An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the
      like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron,
      fixed crosswise to a handle.

            With busy hammers closing rivets up.  --Shak.

   2. Something which in firm or action resembles the common
      hammer; as:
      (a) That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to
          indicate the hour.
      (b) The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires,
          to produce the tones.
      (c) (Anat.) The malleus. See under {Ear}. (Gun.) That part
          of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or
          firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of
          steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and
          struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming.
      (e) Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as,
          St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.

                He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had
                been the ``massive iron hammers'' of the whole
                earth.                            --J. H.
                                                  Newman.

   {Atmospheric hammer}, a dead-stroke hammer in which the
      spring is formed by confined air.

   {Drop hammer}, {Face hammer}, etc. See under {Drop}, {Face},
      etc.

   {Hammer fish}. See {Hammerhead}.

   {Hammer hardening}, the process of hardening metal by
      hammering it when cold.

   {Hammer shell} (Zo["o]l.), any species of {Malleus}, a genus
      of marine bivalve shells, allied to the pearl oysters,
      having the wings narrow and elongated, so as to give them
      a hammer-shaped outline; -- called also {hammer oyster}.
      

   {To bring to the hammer}, to put up at auction.