Shak.
5. Beyond the bounds of what is true, reasonable, correct, proper,
common, etc.; in error or mistake; in a wrong or incorrect position or
opinion; in a state of disagreement, opposition, etc.; in an
inharmonious relation. "Lancelot and I are out." Shak.
Wicked men are strangely out in the calculating of their own
interest.
South.
Very seldom out, in these his guesses.
Addison.
6. Not in the position to score in playing a game; not in the state or
turn of the play for counting or gaining scores.
Out is largely used in composition as a prefix, with the same
significations that it has as a separate word; as outbound, outbreak,
outbuilding, outcome, outdo, outdoor, outfield. See also the first Note
under Over, adv.
Day in, day out, from the beginning to the limit of each of several
days; day by day; every day. -- Out and out. (a) adv. Completely;
wholly; openly. (b) adj. Without any reservation or disguise; absolute;
as, an out and out villain. [As an adj. written also out-and-out.] --
Out at, Out in, Out on, etc., elliptical phrases, that to which out
refers as a source, origin, etc., being omitted; as, out (of the house
and) at the barn; out (of the house, road, fields, etc., and) in the
woods.
Three fishers went sailing out into the west, Out into the west, as
the sun went down.