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Dryden. The boy's mother, despised for not having read a fyftem of logick, outdoes him in it. Locke.I grieve to be outdone by Gay,

In my own humourous biting way. Swift. *To OUTDWELL. v. a. [out and dewell.] To ftay beyond.

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He outdwells his hour. Shak. OUTEIRO, a town and fort of Portugal, in Tralos-Montes, seated on a mountain, nine miles SE. of Braganza, and 21 NW. of Miranda de Duero.

* OUTER. adj. [from out.] That which is without; oppofed to inner.-The kidney is a conglomerated gland only in the outer part. Grea's Cofmol.

* OUTERLY. adv. [from outer.] Towards the outfide. In the lower jaw, two tufks like those of a boar, ftanding outerly, an inch behind the cutters. Grew's Mufæum.

* OUTERMOST. adj. [fuperlative, from outer.] Remoteft from the midft.—Try if three bells were made one within another, and air betwixt each; and the outermost bell were chimed with a hammer, how the found would differ from a fingle bell. Bacon.-The outermost corpufcles of a white body, have their various little furfaces of a specular nature. Boyle.-Many handfome contrivances of draw-bridges I had feen, fometimes many upon one bridge, fometimes two or three on a breaft, the outermost ones ferving for the retreat of the foot, and the middle for the horse and carriages. Brown.

*To OUTFACE. v. a. [out and face.] 1. To brave; to bear down by fhew of magnanimity; to bear down with impudence.

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Of bragging horror. Shak. -They betrayed fome knowledge of their perfons, but were outfaced. Wotton. 2. To ftare down.-We behold the fun and enjoy his light, as long as we look towards it circumfpectly; we warm ourselves fafely while we ftand near the fire; but if we feek to outface the one, to enter into the other, we forthwith become blind or burnt. Raleigh.

* To OUTFAWN. v. a. [out and fawn.] To excel in fawning.

They receive as little by,

Outfarn as much and out-comply. Hudibras.

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* OUTFORM. n. f. [out and formi] External appearance.

Cupid, who took vain-delight
In mere outforms, until he loft his fight,
Hath chang'd his foul.

Ben Jonfon. * To OUTFROWN. v. a. [out and frown.] To frown down; to over-bear by frowns.For thee, oppressed king, am I cast down; Myfelf could elfe out frown false fortune's frown. Sbak.

OUTGATE. n.. [out and gate.] Outlet; paffage outwards.-Thofe places are fit for trade, having most convenient out-gates by divers ways to the fea, and in-gates to the richest parts of the land. Spenfer

*To OUTGIVE. v. a. [out and give.] To fur pafs in giving.

The bounteous play'r cutgave the pinching lord.

Dryden. *To OUTGO. v. a. pret. outwent; part. outgone; [out and go.] 1. To furpaís; to excel.For frank, well ordered, and continual hospitality, he out-avent all fhew of competence. Carew.-While you practifed the rudiments of war, you out-went all other captains. Dryden.-Where they apply themselves, none of their neighbours out-ge them. Locke. 2. To go beyond; to leave behind in going. Many ran afoot thither out of all cities, and out-went them. Mark vi. 33. 3. To circumvent; to over-reach.—

Molleffon

Thought us to have out-gone With a quaint invention.

Denkam

*To OUTGROW. v, a. Lout and grow.] To fur pafs in growth; to grow too great or too old for any thing.

Much their work outgrew, The hands dispatch of two, gard'ning fo wide. Milton.

When fome virtue much outgrows the reft, It shoots too fast and high. Dryden. The graver geniufes, who have outgrown ail gaieties of ftyle and youthful relishes. Glanville.The lawyer, the tradefman, the mechanic, have found fo many arts to deceive, that they far outgrow the common prudence of mankind. Svift.

* OUTGUARD. n. f. [out and guard.] One pofted at a diftance from the main body, as a defence.-As foon as any foreign object presses upon the fenfe, thofe fpirits which are posted upon the out-guards, immediately scour off to the brain. South.

You beat the out guards of my master's hoft.

Dryden These out-guards of the mind are fent abroad. Blackmore. *To OUTJEST. v. a. [out and jeft.] To overpower by jefting.

The fool labours to outjeft
His heart-ftruck injuries.

Shak OUTIMACS,

which any man is cut off from the community, and deprived of the protection of the law.

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So many hollow compliments and lies, Outlandish flatteries. Milton. -Upon the approach of the king's troops under general Wills, who was used to the outlandish way of making war, we put in practice paffive obedience. Addison.

OUTLAR, a town of Ireland, in Wexford. * To OUTLAST. v. a. [out and last.] To furpafs in duration.-Good housewives, to make their candles burn the longer, lay them in bran, which makes them harder; infomuch as they will outLaft other candles of the fame ftuff, half in half. Bacon.

Summer's chief honour, if thou hadst out. lafted

Bleak winter's force that made thy bloffoms dry. Milton. -The prefent age hath attempted perpetual motions, whofe revolutions might outlast the exemplary mobility, and out-measure time itself. Brown.

This with the fabric of the world begun,
Elder than light, and shall outlast the fun.

Waller. OUTLAW. n. f. utlaga, Saxon.] One ex. cluded from the benefit of the law. A robber; a bandit.

An outlaw in a castle keeps. Shak. -Gathering unto him all the fcatterlings and outlaws out of the woods and mountains. Spenfer.How fhould they be other than outlaws and enemies to the crown of England? Davies.

You may as well fpread out the unfun'd heaps

Of Mifer's treasure by an outlaw's den, And tell me it is fafe, as bid me hope Danger will let a helpless maiden país. Milton. -A drunkard is outlawd from all worthy and creditable converse. South.

* To OUTLAW. v. a. To deprive of the benefits and protection of the law.

I had a fon,

Now out-lawed from my blood; he fought my life. Shak.

He that is drunken,

Is outlawed by himself. Herbert. -Like as there are particular perfons outlawed and proferibed by civil laws, fo are there nations that are outlawed and profcribed by the law of nature and nations. Bacon.-Like an outlawed perfon he is expofed to all that will affault him. Decay of Piety.

(1.)* OUTLAWRY. [from outlaw.] A decree by VOL. XVI, PART II.

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By profcription and bills of outlawry,
Octavius, Antony, and Lepidus,

Have put to death an hundred fenators. Shak. Divers were returned knights and burgeffes for the parliament; many of which had been by Richard III. attainted by outlawries. Bacon.

(2.) OUTLAWRY is the punishment of a perfon who, being called into law, and lawfully, according to the ufual forms, fought, does contemptuoufly refuse to appear. The effect of being outlawed at the fuit of another, in a civil cause, is the forfeiture of all the perfon's goods and chattels to the king, and the profits of his land, while the outlawry remains in force. If in treafon or felony, all the lands and tenements which he has in fee, or for life, and all his goods and chattels, are alfo forfeited; and, befides, the law interprets his abfence as a fufficient evidence of guilt; and, without requiring farther proof, accounts the perfon guilty of the fact; on which enfues corruption of blood, &c. However, to avoid inhumanity, no man is entitled to kill him wantonly or wilfully; but in fo doing he is guilty of murder, unlefs it happens in endeavouring to apprehend him; for any body may arrest an outlaw, either of his own head, or by writ or warrant of capias utlagatum, in order to bring him to execution. If, after outlawry in civil cafes, the defendant publicly appear, he is to be arrested by a writ of capias utlagatum, and committed till the outlawry be reverfed; which reverfal may be had by the defendant's appearing in court, (and in the king's bench by fending an attorney, according to ftat. 4 and 5 W. and M. cap. 18.), and any plaufible circumftance, however trifling, is in general fufficient to reverse it; it being confidered only as a process to force appearance. The defendant muft, however, pay full cofts, and muft put the plaintiff in the fame condition as if he had appeared before the writ of exigi facias was awarded. It is appointed by magna charta, that no freeman fhall be outlawed, but according to the law of the land. A minor or a woman cannot be outlawed. In Scotland, outlawry anciently took place in the cafe of refufal to fulfil a civil obligation, as well as in criminal cafes. At prefent, however, it only takes place in the two cafes of flying from a criminal profecution, and of appearing in court attended by too great a number of followers. But the defender, upon appearing at any diftance of time, and offering to ftand trial, is entitled, de jure, to have the outlawry reverfed, and to be admitted to trial accordingly, and even to bail, if the offence be bailable. See WAIVE.

* OUTLEAP. n. f. [from the verb.] Sally; flight; cfcape.-Since youth muft have, fome liberty, fome outleaps, they might be under the eye of a father. Locke.

*To OUTLEAP. v. a. [out and leap.] To pafs by leaping; to start beyond.

*OUTLET. . f. [out, and let.] Paffage outwards; difcharge outwards; egrefs; paffage of egrefs. Colonies and foreign plantations are very necellary, as outlets to a populous nation, Eeee Bacon

Bacon. The enemy was deprived of that useful outlet Clarendon.-

So 'fcapes th' infulting fire his narrow jail, And makes fmall outlets into open air. Dryden. Have a care that these members be neither the inlets nor outlets of any vices. Ray.

* OUTLINE. n. f. [out and line.) Contour; line by which any figure is defined; extremity. Painters, by their outlines, colours, lights, and fhadows, reprefent the fame in their pictures. Dryden.

*To OUTLIVE. v. a. [out and live.] To live beyond; to furvive.-

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-Where noble families are gone to decay, their titles outlive their eftates. Swift.-Pray cutlive me, and then die as foon as you pleafe. Swift.Two bacon flitches made his Sunday's chear; Some the poor had, and some outliv'd the year. Harte.

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* OUTLIVER. n. f. [out and live.] A furvi

*To OUTLOOK. v. a. [out and lock.] To face down; to browbeat.-

To outlook conqueft and to win renown, Even in the jaws of danger and of death Shak. *To OUTLUSTRE. v. a. [out and luftre.] To excel in brightnefs.-She went before others I have feen, as that diamond of yours outluftres many I have beheld. Shak.

* OUTLYING. part. adj. [cut and lie.] Not in the common courfe of order. Removed from the general scheme.-The last furvey I proposed of the four out-lying empires, was that of the Arabians. Temple-We have taken all the out-lying parts of the Spanish monarchy. Addison.

*To OUTMARCH. v. a. [out and march.] To leave behind in the march-The horse out-marched the foot, which, by reason of the heat, was not able to use great expedition. Clarendon.

*To OUTMEASURE. v. a. [out and meafure.] To exceed in meafure.-Thofe revolutions might outlast the exemplary mobility, and out-measure time itself. Brown.

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the air, but by the outmost superficial parts of the glafs, there is ftill the fame difficulty. Newton.— The generality of men are readier to fetch a reafon from the immenfe distance of the starry beavens, and the outmost walls of the world. Bentley.

*To OUTNUMBER. v. a. out and number.] To exceed in number.-The ladies came in so great a body to the opera, that they outnumbered the enemy. Adifon.

To OUTPACE. v. a. {out and pace.] To outgo; to leave behind.

Orion's speed

Could not outpace thee.

Chaprau

* OUTPARISH. n. f. [cut and parish.] _P›rith not lying within the walls.In the greater catparifies many of the poorer parishioners, through neglect, do perifh for want of fome heedful eye to overlook them. Grauet.

OUTPART. n. f. [out and part.] Part remote from the centre or main body. He is appointed to fupply the bishop's jurisdiction and other judicial offices in the outparts of his diocefe Alife.

OUT PENSIONER, 7. f. an old invalid foldier, who receives the annual penfion, but is not obliged to refide in the hofpital at Chelfea. Of these there are above 10.000. See CHELSEA.

OUTPOSTS, n. f. in a military sense, a body of men potted beyond the grand guard; called outpols, as being the rounds or limits of the camp.

To OUTPOUR. v. a. [out and pour.] To emit; to fend forth in a ftream.—

He looked and faw what number numberlefs

The city gates out-pour'd.

Milton.

* To OUTPRIZE. v. a. [out and prize.] To exceed in the value fet upon it.-Either your unparagon'd mistress is dead, or the's outprized by a trifie. Shak.

* OUTRAGE. n. f. [outrage, French.] 1. Open violence; tumultuous mifchief-He wrought great outrages, wafting all the country where he went Spenjer.

He doth himself in fecret shrowd,
To fly the vengeance for his outrage due.

In that beaftly fury,
Ile has been known to commit outrage
And cherish factions.

Spenfer.

Shak.

Uncharitably with me have you dealt, And fhamefully my hopes by you are butcher'd;

My charity is outrage.

Shak.

2. This word feems to be used by Philips for mere commotion, without any ill import, contrary to the univerfal use of writers.

See with what outrage from the frofty north, The early valiant Swede draws forth his wing. In battailous array. Philips (1.) * TO OUTRAGE. v. a. [outrager, French.] To injure violently or contumelioully; to infult roughly and tumultuously.

Ah heavens! that do this hideous act be-
hold,

And heavenly virgin thus outraged fee;
How can the vengeance juft fo long withhold!

Spencer.

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out peril to be outraged. Bacon.-Bafe and infolent minds outrage men, when they have hopes of doing it without a return. Atterbury-This interview outrages all decency. Broome.

(2)* TO OUTRAGE. v. n. To commit exorbitancies. Not in ufe. Three or four great ones in court will outrage in apparel, buge hofe, monftrous hats, and garish colours. Asch m.

* OUTRAGIOUS. adj. [outrageux, French.] It fhould, I think, be written outrageous; but the cuftom feems otherwife. 1. Violent; furious; raging; exorbitant; tumultuous; turbulent.-Under him they committed divers the moft outragious villanies, that a base multitude can imagine. Sidney. As the went, her tongue did walk In foul reproach and terms of vile defpight, Provoking him by her outragious talk. Spenfer. They view'd the vast immeasurable abyfs, Outragious as a sea, dark, wasteful, wild. Milt. When he knew his rival freed and gone, He fwells with wrath; he makes outragious Dryden. 2. Exceffive; paffing reafon or decency.-My characters of Antony and Cleopatra, though they are favourable to them, have nothing of outragious panegyrick. Dryden. 3. Enormous; atrocious.Think not, although in writing I prefer'd The manner of thy vile cutragious crimes, That therefore I have forg'd.

moan.

Shak. OUTRAGIOUSLY. adv. [from outragious.] Violently; tumultuoufly; furiously.-That people will have colour of employment given them, by which they will poll and fpoil fo outragiously, as the very enemy cannot do worke. Spenfer.Let luft burn never fo outragiously for the prefent, yet age will in time chill thofe heats. South.

* OUTRAGIOUSNESS. 7. f. [from outragicus.] Fury; violence.-Virgil, more difcreet than Homer, has contented himielf with the partiality of his deities, without bringing them to the outragiousness of blows. Dryden.

OUTRE. adj. (Fr. above, or over and above.] Beyond common; excentric; or out of the ufual mode: generally applied to fomething abfurd or ridiculous in character or manners.

*To OUTREACH. v. a. [out and reach.] To go beyond. This usage is derived from to many de fcents of ages, that the caufe and author outreach remembrance. Careqv.-Our forefathers could never dream fo high a crime as parricide, whereas this outreaches that fact. Broan.

OUTREDROOG, a fortress of Indoftan, in Myfore, 12 miles from Saverndroog. It was taken by the British under Earl Cornwallis, on the 4th Dec. 1791. See INDIA, § 28.

*To OUTRIDE. v. a. [cut and ride.] To pafs by riding.

This advantage age from youth hath won, As not to be outridden, though out-run. Dryd. * OUTRIDER. n. f. [from out and rider.]~A fummoner whofe office is to cite men before the Sheriff. Dia.

* OUTRIGHT. adv. [out and right.] 1. Imme. diately; without delay.-When thefe wretches had the ropes about their necks, the first was to be pardoned, the last hanged outright. Arbuthnot. 2. Completely.-

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Shak. -Like the motion of a bullet in the air, which flieth fo fwift as it outruns the eye. Bacon.

This advantage age from youth hath won, As not to be out-ridden, though outrun. Dryd. 2. To exceed.-We outrun the prefent income, as not doubting to reimburse ourselves out of the profits of fome future project. Addison.

*To OUTSAIL. v. a. [out and fail] To leave behind in failing.-The word fignifies a fhip that cutfails other ships. Broome.

* OUTSCAFE. n. f. [out and scape.] Power of
efcaping.-
It paft

Our powers to lift afide a log fo vaft,
As barr'd all outfeupe.

Chapman. *To OUTSCORN. v. a. [out and fcorn.] To bear down or confront by contempt; to defpife; not to mind.

He ftrives in his little world of man t' out-
Scorn

The to and fro conflicting wind and rain. Shak.
* To OUTSEL. v. a. [out and fell.] 1. To ex-
ceed in the price for which a thing is fold; to
fell at a higher rate than another.-It would foon
improve to fuch a height, as to outfell our neigh-
bours. Temple. 2. To gain an higher price.-
Her pretty action did outfel her gift,
And yet enrich'd it too.

Shak.

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The forward youth

Will learn t' outhoot you in your proper bow. Dryden. 2. To fhoot beyond.-Men are refolved never to putfhoot their forefathers mark; but write one after another. Norris.

* OUTSIDE. n. f. [out and fide.] 1. Superficies; furface; external part.-What pity that fo exquifite an outfide of a head fhould not have one grain of fenfe in it. L'Etrange.

The leathern outside boift'rous as it was, Gave way and bent. Dryden. 2. Extreme part; part remote from the middle. Hold an arrow in a flame for the space of ten pulfes, and when it cometh forth, thofe parts which were on the outfides of the flame are blacked and turned into a coal. Bacon.-3. Superficial appearance.

We're but the outfide of the Roman Brutus, Covering difcretion with a coat of folly. Shak. -The ornaments of converfation, and the outfide of fashionable manners, will come in their due time. Locke.—Created beings fee nothing but our outfide. Spellator. 4. The utmoft. A barbarous ufe-Two hundred load upon an acre they reckon the outfide of what is to be laid. Mortimer.5. Perfon; external man.—

Fortune forbid, my outside have not charmed her. Shak. -Your outfide promiseth as much as can be expected from a gentleman. Bacon:

What admir'ft thou, what tranfports thee fo?
An outfide? fair, no doubt.

Milton.

6. Outer fide; part not inclofed.-F threw open the door of my chamber, and found the family standing on the outfide. Spellator.

*To OUTSIT. v. a. [out and fit.] To fit beyond the time of any thing.-Ile that prolongs his meals and facrifices his time, as well as his other conveniences, to his luxury, how quickly does he outfit his pleasure? South.

* To OUTSLEEP. v. a. Lout and fleep] To fleep beyond.

Lovers, to bed! 'tis almost fairy time: I fear we fall outfleep the coming morn. Shak. *To OUTSPEAK. v. a. {out and speak.] To speak fomething beyond; to exceed.-

Rich tuffs and ornaments of houfliold I find at fuch proud rate, that it out peaks poffeffion of a fubject.

Shak.

*To OUTSPORT. v. a. fout and Sport.]

To

Sport beyond.

Let's teach ourfelves that honourable top, Not to outfport difcretion.

Shak.

cxtend; to diffuse.-

With fails outfpread we By.

*To OUTSPREAD. v. a. [out and Spread.] To

Pope.

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*To OUT SWEETEN. T. a. [out and sweeton.]

To excer in sweetness.-

The leaf of eglantine, which not to flander, Out favseten'd not thy breath. Shak.Cymbeline. *To OUT-TALK. v. a. [out and talk.] To overpower

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