The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Face \Face\ (f[=a]s), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Faced; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Facing.]
   1. To meet in front; to oppose with firmness; to resist, or
      to meet for the purpose of stopping or opposing; to
      confront; to encounter; as, to face an enemy in the field
      of battle.
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            I'll face
            This tempest, and deserve the name of king.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   2. To Confront impudently; to bully.
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            I will neither be facednor braved.    --Shak.
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   3. To stand opposite to; to stand with the face or front
      toward; to front upon; as, the apartments of the general
      faced the park; some of the seats on the train faced
      backward.
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            He gained also with his forces that part of Britain
            which faces Ireland.                  --Milton.
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   4. To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put
      a facing upon; as, a building faced with marble.
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   5. To line near the edge, esp. with a different material; as,
      to face the front of a coat, or the bottom of a dress.
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   6. To cover with better, or better appearing, material than
      the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the
      surface of a box of tea, a barrel of sugar, etc.
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   7. (Mach.) To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth;
      to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); esp., in
      turning, to shape or smooth the flat surface of, as
      distinguished from the cylindrical surface.
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   8. To cause to turn or present a face or front, as in a
      particular direction.
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   To face down, to put down by bold or impudent opposition.
      "He faced men down." --Prior.

   To face (a thing) out, to persist boldly or impudently in
      an assertion or in a line of conduct. "That thinks with
      oaths to face the matter out." --Shak.

   to face the music to admit error and accept reprimand or
      punishment as a consequence for having failed or having
      done something wrong; to willingly experience an
      unpleasant situation out of a sense of duty or obligation;
      as, as soon as he broke the window with the football,
      Billy knew he would have to face the music.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Facing \Fa"cing\, n.
   1. A covering in front, for ornament or other purpose; an
      exterior covering or sheathing; as, the facing of an
      earthen slope, sea wall, etc., to strengthen it or to
      protect or adorn the exposed surface.
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   2. A lining placed near the edge of a garment for ornament or
      protection.
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   3. (Arch.) The finishing of any face of a wall with material
      different from that of which it is chiefly composed, or
      the coating or material so used.
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   4. (Founding) A powdered substance, as charcoal, bituminous
      coal, etc., applied to the face of a mold, or mixed with
      the sand that forms it, to give a fine smooth surface to
      the casting.
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   5. (Mil.)
      (a) pl. The collar and cuffs of a military coat; --
          commonly of a color different from that of the coat.
      (b) The movement of soldiers by turning on their heels to
          the right, left, or about; -- chiefly in the pl.
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   Facing brick, front or pressed brick.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

facing
    n 1: a lining applied to the edge of a garment for ornamentation
         or strengthening
    2: an ornamental coating to a building [syn: facing, veneer]
    3: a protective covering that protects the outside of a building
       [syn: facing, cladding]
    4: providing something with a surface of a different material
       [syn: lining, facing]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

70 Moby Thesaurus words for "facing":
   across, against, antipodal, antithetic, bush, bushing, coat,
   coating, confronting, contra, contrapositive, converse, doubling,
   doublure, enamel, eyeball-to-eyeball, facade, filler, filling,
   film, forward, forwards, front, fronting, frontward, frontwards,
   fur, headward, headwards, in front of, in opposition to, inlay,
   inlayer, insole, interlineation, inverse, lacquer, liner, lining,
   obverse, onward, onwards, opposing, opposite, opposite to, over,
   over against, overlay, packing, padding, paint, pellicle, polar,
   polaric, polarized, reverse, revetment, scale, scum, skin,
   stuffing, surface, toward, vanward, varnish, veneer, versus,
   vis-a-vis, wadding, wainscot