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Outvenom Out·ven"om transitive verb To exceed in venom.

Outvie Out·vie" transitive verb To exceed in vying. Dryden.

Outvillain Out·vil"lain transitive verb To exceed in villainy.

Outvoice Out·voice" transitive verb To exceed in noise. Shak.

Outvote Out·vote" transitive verb To exceed in the number of votes given; to defeat by votes. South.

Outwalk Out·walk" transitive verb To excel in walking; to leave behind in walking. B. Jonson.

Outwall Out"wall` noun The exterior wall; the outside surface, or appearance. Shak.

Outward Out"ward adjective 1. Forming the superficial part; external; exterior; -- opposed to inward ; as, an outward garment or layer.

Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

Cor. iv. 16.

2. Of or pertaining to the outer surface or to what is external; manifest; public. "Sins outward ." Chaucer.

An outward honor for an inward toil.

Shak.

3. Foreign; not civil or intestine; as, an outward war. [ Obsolete] Hayward.

4. Tending to the exterior or outside.

The fire will force its outward way.

Dryden.

-- Out"ward*ly , adverb -- Out"ward*ness , noun

Outward stroke . (Steam Engine) See under Stroke .

Outward Out"ward noun External form; exterior. [ R.]

So fair an outward and such stuff within.

Shak.

Outward, Outwards Out"ward, Out"wards adverb [ Anglo-Saxon ...teweard . See Out , and -ward , -wards .] From the interior part; in a direction from the interior toward the exterior; out; to the outside; beyond; off; away; as, a ship bound outward .

The wrong side may be turned outward .

Shak.

Light falling on them is not reflected outwards .

Sir I. Newton.

Outward bound , bound in an outward direction or to foreign parts; -- said especially of vessels, and opposed to homeward bound .

Outwards Out"wards adverb See Outward , adverb

Outwatch Out·watch" transitive verb To exceed in watching.

Outway Out"way` noun A way out; exit. [ R.]

In divers streets and outways multiplied.

P. Fletcher.

Outwear Out·wear" transitive verb 1. To wear out; to consume or destroy by wearing. Milton.

2. To last longer than; to outlast; as, this cloth will outwear the other. "If I the night outwear ." Pope.

Outweary Out·wea"ry transitive verb To weary out. Cowley.

Outweed Out·weed" transitive verb To weed out. [ Obsolete]

Outweep Out·weep" transitive verb To exceed in weeping.

Outweigh Out·weigh" transitive verb To exceed in weight or value.

Outwell Out·well" transitive verb To pour out. [ Obsolete] Spenser.

Outwell Out·well" intransitive verb To issue forth. Thomson.

Outwent Out·went" imperfect of Outgo .

Outwhore Out·whore" transitive verb To exceed in lewdness.

Outwin Out·win" transitive verb To win a way out of. [ Obsolete]

Outwind Out·wind" transitive verb To extricate by winding; to unloose. [ R.] Spenser. Dr. H. More.

Outwing Out·wing" transitive verb To surpass, exceed, or outstrip in flying. Garth.

Outwit Out·wit" transitive verb To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning; to defeat or overreach by superior craft.

They did so much outwit and outwealth us !

Gauden.

Outwit Out"wit noun The faculty of acquiring wisdom by observation and experience, or the wisdom so acquired; -- opposed to inwit . [ Obsolete] Piers Plowman.

Outwoe Out·woe" transitive verb To exceed in woe. [ Obsolete]

Outwork Out·work" transitive verb To exceed in working; to work more or faster than.

Outwork Out"work` noun (Fort.) A minor defense constructed beyond the main body of a work, as a ravelin, lunette, hornwork, etc. Wilhelm.

Outworth Out·worth" transitive verb To exceed in worth. [ R.]

Outwrest Out·wrest" transitive verb To extort; to draw from or forth by violence. [ Obsolete] Spenser.

Outwrite Out·write" transitive verb To exceed or excel in writing.

Outzany Out·za"ny transitive verb To exceed in buffoonery. [ Obsolete] B. Jonson.

Ouvarovite Ou·va"ro·vite noun [ Named from the Russian Count Uvaroff .] (Min.) Chrome garnet.

Ouze Ouze noun & v. See Ooze . [ Obsolete]

Ouzel Ou"zel noun (Zoology) Same as Ousel .

The mellow ouzel fluted in the elm.

Tennyson.

Ova O"va noun plural See Ovum .

Oval O"val adjective [ French ovale , from Latin ovum egg. Confer Egg , Ovum .] 1. Of or pertaining to eggs; done in the egg, or inception; as, oval conceptions. [ Obsolete]

2. Having the figure of an egg; oblong and curvilinear, with one end broader than the other, or with both ends of about the same breadth; in popular usage, elliptical.

3. (Botany) Broadly elliptical.

Oval chuck (Mech.) , a lathe chuck so constructed that work attached to it, and cut by the turning tool in the usual manner, becomes of an oval form.

Oval O"val noun A body or figure in the shape of an egg, or popularly, of an ellipse.

Cassinian oval (Geom.) , the locus of a point the product of whose distances from two fixed points is constant; -- so called from Cassini , who first investigated the curve. Thus, in the diagram, if P moves so that P A.P B is constant, the point P describes a Cassinian oval. The locus may consist of a single closed line, as shown by the dotted line, or of two equal ovals about the points A and B.

Ovalbumin, Ovalbumen O`val·bu"min, O`val·bu"men noun [ Ovum + albumin .] (Physiol. Chem.) The albumin from white of eggs; egg albumin; -- in distinction from serum albumin . See Albumin .

Ovaliform O·val"i·form adjective [ Oval + -form .] Having the form of an egg; having a figure such that any section in the direction of the shorter diameter will be circular, and any in the direction of the longer diameter will be oval.

Ovally O"val·ly adverb In an oval form.

Ovant O"vant adjective [ Latin ovans triumphant, present participle of ovare to exult.] Exultant. [ Obsolete] Holland.

Ovarian, Ovarial O·va"ri·an, O·va"ri·al adjective Of or pertaining to an ovary.

Ovariole O·va"ri·ole noun (Zoology) One of the tubes of which the ovaries of most insects are composed.

Ovariotomist O·va`ri·ot"o·mist noun One who performs, or is skilled in, ovariotomy.

Ovariotomy O·va`ri·ot"o·my noun [ Ovarium + Greek ... to cut.] (Surg.) The operation of removing one or both of the ovaries; oöphorectomy.

Ovarious O·va"ri·ous adjective Consisting of eggs; as, ovarious food. [ R.] Thomson.

Ovaritis O`va·ri"tis noun [ New Latin See Ovarium , and -itis .] (Medicine) Inflammation of the ovaries.

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