That faces.
† 1. Bold, audacious. Obs.
1566. T. Stapleton, Ret. Untr. Jewel, I. 33. Teache you Truthe at home, which haue printed openly so many notorious Lies, so outragious Vntruthes, so facing fashoods?
1592. Babington, Comfort. Notes Genesis, iii. § 2. Thirdly, by a bold lye of a facing Diuell shee is pulled on to her destruction.
1624. Br. Mountagu, Gagg, Pref. 9. Who opineth … that hee may … build his salvation upon the facing impudency of every light-skirt mountebanck.
2. That is opposite to. Facing points (Railway): a pair of points which open towards the approaching train. Also attrib. (see quot. 1889).
1849. Builder, 3 Feb. 56/3. For the protection of the boxes for facing points from dust, rain, snow, &c.
1886. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 9), XX. 238. Many accidents have been caused to trains by facing-points … turning the train unexpectedly into a siding.
1889. G. Findlay, Eng. Railway, 75. There is the ‘Facing-Point-Lock,’ which is a bar of iron working in connection with facing points—that is, points by which one line diverges from another in the same direction.
