Sc. antrin’. [f. as prec. + -ING2.] Making trial of one’s chance, risking, daring; venturesome, forward, audacious.
1677. Hale, Contempl., II. 86. It is made more bold, and confident, and adventuring.
1774. Fergusson, Ode to Bee (1845), 18. Yet they, alas! are antrin fouk That lade the scape wi winter stock.
1796. Burke, Reg. Peace, ii. Wks. VIII. 243. A body of active, adventuring, ambitious, discontented people.
1840. Gen. P. Thompson, Exerc. (1842), V. 248. The adventuring detachment has been allowed to move out unchecked.
