Noun

(en noun)

and [[Greek alphabet, modern Greek alphabet, usually romanized as "ph".

(mathematics) The golden ratio.

A visual illusion whereby a sequential pattern of lights produces a false sense of motion.(fact)

Noun

(phizzes)

(obsolete, colloquial) The face.

* {{quote-book

, year = 1818 , chapter = Conversation , title = Poems , volume = 1 , first = William , last = Cowper , authorlink = William Cowper , page = 163 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=qi5bAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA163&dq=phiz , passage = The emphatic speaker dearly loves to oppose,
In contact inconvenient, nose to nose.
As if the gnomon on his neighbour's phiz ,
Touched with the magnet had attracted his. }}

* {{quote-magazine

, year = 1831 , month = June , title = The Lord Advocate on Reform , magazine = , volume = 29 , issue = 181 , page = 980 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=9bUCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA980&dq=phiz , passage = and whatever the feelings which now agitate our secret hearts, — you see we are resolved at least to put on a cheerful phiz , and not to die either of the dumps or the mumps, or any other of the dismals. }}

* {{quote-book

, year = 1885 , title = The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , volume = 8 , first = Richard F. , last = Burton , authorlink = Richard Francis Burton , url = http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3442 , passage = "As for thee, thou givest me good-morrow with thy one eye and thy lameness and thy ill-omened phiz and I become poor and bankrupt and hungry!" }}