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▪ I. fronting, vbl. n.|ˈfrʌntɪŋ|
[f. front v.]
1. The action of the vb. front in various senses.
1581Mulcaster Positions xxxix. (1887) 212 In some desperate cases, fantasie is froward, and wil bide no fronting. 1659Torriano, Facciata..any fronting or facing. 1796Instr. & Reg. Cavalry (1813) 183 The fronting every two hundred yards is prescribed to prevent the breaking or falling into file of the line. 1832Prop. Regul. Instr. Cavalry iii. 86 The halting and fronting of each line may..be regulated. 1883–4J. G. Butler in Bible-Work II. 65 This bold fronting of danger for the preaching of Christ. 1895Daily News 1 June 5/6 It was..determined to achieve the new fronting without disturbing it [the Dutch cannon ball].
2. concr. A superficial coat or layer; a facing.
1886Athenæum 22 May 686/3 The bath..reaching to the marble semicircular fronting of the western mosaic. 1891Daily News 26 Dec. 5/5 The..town has everywhere a thin fronting of sparkling white.
▪ II. fronting, ppl. a.|ˈfrʌntɪŋ|
[f. front v. + -ing2.]
That fronts (in senses of the vb.).
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iv. iv. 66 Oh, with what Wings shall his Affections flye Towards fronting Perill, and oppos'd Decay? a1711Ken Hymns Evang. Poet. Wks. 1721 I. 82 They made supernal Waves asunder start, And into fronting liquid Bastions part. 1797Coleridge This Lime-Tree Bower, etc. 54 Those fronting elms. 1816Keatinge Trav. (1817) I. 192 Their military [infantry] is formed in a long..lane of two fronting ranks. 1844Mrs. Browning Lady Geraldine's Courtship 68 She, with level fronting eyelids. 1846Ld. Houghton Men of Old iv, Content, as men-at-arms, to cope Each with his fronting foe.
Hence, frontingly adv.
1859Chamb. Jrnl. XI. 128 Hostile armies..On dimly tented fields, stand frontingly. |