[f. ADDRESS v. + -ING2.] Forming a straight line; preparing; directing; issuing an address.
1523. Ld. Berners, Froissart, I. ccxii. 237. All Iles addressing to the landes … we helde in the tyme of the sayd treatye.
1705. Perry, Hist. Coll. Am. Col. Ch., I. 156. The addressing Clergy have the general favor of the people.
1773. Burke, Pres. Discont., Wks. II. 289. An addressing house of commons.
