Webster's Dictionary, 1913

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Out-of-door adjective Being out of the house; being, or done, in the open air; outdoor; as, out-of- door exercise. See Out of door , under Out , adverb

Amongst out-of-door delights.
G. Eliot.

Out-of-the-way adjective See under Out , adverb

Out-patient noun A patient who is outside a hospital, but receives medical aid from it.

Outnoise transitive verb To exceed in noise; to surpass in noisiness. [ R.] Fuller.

Outnumber transitive verb To exceed in number.

Outpace transitive verb [ Confer Outpass .] To outgo; to move faster than; to leave behind. [ R.] Lamb.

Outparamour transitive verb To exceed in the number of mistresses. [ R.] Shak.

Outparish noun A parish lying without the walls of, or in a remote part of, a town. Graunt.

Outpart noun An outlying part. [ R.] Ayliffe.

Outpass transitive verb [ Confer Outpace .] To pass beyond; to exceed in progress.

Outpassion transitive verb To exceed in passion.

Outpeer transitive verb To excel. [ R.] Shak.

Outpension transitive verb To grant an outpension to.

Outpension noun A public pension granted to one not required to live in a charitable institution. -- Out"pen`sion*er , noun

Outplay transitive verb To excel or defeat in a game; to play better than; as, to be outplayed in tennis or ball.

Outpoise transitive verb To outweigh. Howell.

Outport noun A harbor or port at some distance from the chief town or seat of trade. Macaulay.

Outpost noun (Mil.) (a) A post or station without the limits of a camp, or at a distance from the main body of an army, for observation of the enemy. (b) The troops placed at such a station.

Outpour transitive verb To pour out. Milton.

Outpour noun A flowing out; a free discharge.

Outpower transitive verb To excel in power; to overpover. [ Obsolete] Fuller.

Outpray transitive verb To exceed or excel in prayer.

Outpreach transitive verb To surpass in preaching.

And for a villain's quick conversion
A pillory can outpreach a parson.
Trumbull.

Outprize transitive verb To prize beyong value, or in excess; to exceed in value. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Output noun
1. The amount of coal or ore put out from one or more mines, or the quantity of material produced by, or turned out from, one or more furnaces or mills, in a given time.

2. (Physiol.) That which is thrown out as products of the metabolic activity of the body; the egesta other than the fæces. See Income .

» The output consists of: ( a ) The respiratory products of the lungs, skin, and alimentary canal, consisting chiefly of carbonic acid and water with small quantities of hydrogen and carbureted hydrogen. ( b ) Perspiration, consisting chiefly of water and salts. ( c ) The urine, which is assumed to contain all the nitrogen truly excreted by the body, besides a large quantity of saline matters and water. Foster.

Outquench transitive verb To quench entirely; to extinguish. "The candlelight outquenched ." Spenser.

Outrage transitive verb [ Out + rage .] To rage in excess of. [ R.] Young.

Outrage noun [ French outrage ; Old French outre , oltre , beyond (F. outre , Latin ultra ) + -age , as, in courage , voyage . See Ulterior .]
1. Injurious violence or wanton wrong done to persons or things; a gross violation of right or decency; excessive abuse; wanton mischief; gross injury. Chaucer.

He wrought great outrages , wasting all the country.
Spenser.

2. Excess; luxury. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Syn. -- Affront; insult; abuse. See Affront .

Outrage transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Outragen ; present participle & verbal noun Outraging .] [ French outrager . See Outrage , noun ]


1. To commit outrage upon; to subject to outrage; to treat with violence or excessive abuse.

Base and insolent minds outrage men when they have hope of doing it without a return.
Atterbury.

This interview outrages all decency.
Broome.

2. Specifically, to violate; to commit an indecent assault upon (a female).

Outrage transitive verb To be guilty of an outrage; to act outrageously.

Outrageous adjective [ Old French outrageus , French outrageux . See Outrage , noun ] Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. " Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous crimes." Shak. " Outrageous panegyric." Dryden.

Syn. -- Violent; furious; exorbitant; excessive; atrocious; monstrous; wanton; nefarious; heinous.

-- Out*ra"geous*ly (out*rā"jŭs*lȳ) adverb -- Out*ra"geous*ness , noun

Outrance (ō`träNs") noun [ French See OutrÆ .] The utmost or last extremity.

Outrank (out*rănk") transitive verb To exceed in rank; hence, to take precedence of.

Outray (-rā") transitive verb To outshine. [ R.] Skelton.

Outray intransitive verb To spread out in array. [ Obsolete]

And now they outray to your fleet.
Chapman.

Outraye intransitive verb See Outrage , intransitive verb [ Obsolete]

This warn I you, that ye not suddenly
Out of yourself for no woe should outraye .
Chaucer.

Outraze transitive verb To obliterate. [ Obsolete] Sandys.

Outré adjective [ French, past participle of outrer to exaggerate, from Latin ultra beyond. See Outrage .] Being out of the common course or limits; extravagant; bizarre.

Outré adjective [ French, p.p. of outer to exaggerate, from Latin ultra beyond. See Outrage .] Out of the common course or limits; extravagant; bizarre; as, an outré costume.

My first mental development had in it much of the uncommon -- even much of the outré .
E. A. Poe.

Outreach transitive verb To reach beyond.

Outreason transitive verb To excel or surpass in reasoning; to reason better than. South.

Outreckon transitive verb To exceed in reckoning or computation. Bp. Pearson.

Outrecuidance noun [ French, from outre beyond + cuider to think, Latin cogitare .] Excessive presumption. [ R.] B. Jonson.

Outrede transitive verb To surpass in giving rede, or counsel. [ Obsolete] See Atrede . Chaucer.

Outreign transitive verb To go beyond in reigning; to reign through the whole of, or longer than. [ R.] Spenser.

Outride transitive verb To surpass in speed of riding; to ride beyond or faster than. Shak.

Outride noun
1. A riding out; an excursion. [ R.]

2. A place for riding out. [ R.]

Outrider noun
1. A summoner whose office is to cite men before the sheriff. [ Obsolete]

2. One who rides out on horseback. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

3. A servant on horseback attending a carriage.

Outrigger noun
1. Any spar or projecting timber run out for temporary use, as from a ship's mast, to hold a rope or a sail extended, or from a building, to support hoisting teckle.

2. (Nautical) (a) A projecting support for a rowlock, extended from the side of a boat. (b) A boat thus equipped. (c) A projecting contrivance at the side of a boat to prevent upsetting, as projecting spars with a log at the end.

Outrigger noun (Aëronautics) A projecting frame used to support the elevator or tail planes, etc.