2. To grow out of or away from; to grow too large, or too aged, for;
as, to outgrow clothing; to outgrow usefulness; to outgrow an
infirmity.
Out"growth` (?), n. That which grows out of, or proceeds from,
anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.
Out"guard` (?), n. (Mil.) A guard or small body of troops at a distance
from the main body of an army, to watch for the approach of an enemy;
hence, anything for defense placed at a distance from the thing to be
defended.
Out"gush` (?), n. A pouring out; an outburst.
A passionate outgush of emotion.
Thackeray.
Out*gush" (?), v. i. To gush out; to flow forth.
Out"haul` (?), n. (Naut.) A rope used for hauling out a sail upon a
spar; -- opposite of inhaul.
Out*hees" (?), n. [Cf. LL. uthesium, hutesium, huesium, OF. hueis, and
E. hue, in hue and cry.] Outcry; alarm. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Outh"er (?), conj. Other. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Out-Her"od (?), v. t. To surpass (Herod) in violence or wickedness; to
exceed in any vicious or offensive particular. "It out-Herods Herod."
Shak.
Out-Heroding the preposterous fashions of the times.
Sir W. Scott.
Out*hire" (?), v. t. To hire out. [Obs.] Spenser.
Out"house` (?), n. A small house or building at a little distance from
the main house; an outbuilding.
Out"ing, n. 1. The act of going out; an airing; an excursion; as, a
summer outing.
2. A feast given by an apprentice when he is out of his time. [Prov.
Eng.] Halliwell.
Out*jest" (?), v. t. To surpass in jesting; to drive out, or away, by
jesting. [R.] Shak.
Out"jet` (?), n. That which jets out or projects from anything. [R.] H.
Miller.
Out*jug"gle (?), v. t. To surpass in juggling.
Out"keep`er (?), n. (Surv.) An attachment to a surveyor's compass for
keeping tally in chaining.
Out*knave" (?), v. t. To surpass in knavery.
Out*la"bor (?), v. t. To surpass in laboring.
Out"land (?), a. [Out + land. See Outlandish.] Foreign; outlandish.
[Obs.] Strutt.
Out"land*er (?), n. A foreigner. Wood.
Out*land"ish (?), a. [AS. &?;tlendisc foreign. See Out, Land, and -
ish.] 1. Foreign; not native.
Him did outlandish women cause to sin.
Neh. xiii. 26.
Its barley water and its outlandish wines.
G. W. Cable.
2. Hence: Not according with usage; strange; rude; barbarous; uncouth;
clownish; as, an outlandish dress, behavior, or speech.
Something outlandish, unearthy, or at variance with ordinary
fashion.
Hawthorne.
--Out*land"ish*ly, adv. -- Out*land"ish*ness, n.
Out*last" (?), v. t. To exceed in duration; to survive; to endure
longer than. Milton.
Out*laugh" (?), v. t. 1. To surpass or outdo in laughing. Dryden.
2. To laugh (one) out of a purpose, principle, etc.; to discourage or
discomfit by laughing; to laugh down. [R.]
His apprehensions of being outlaughed will force him to continue in
a restless obscurity.
Franklin.
Out"law` (?), n. [AS. &?;tlaga, &?;tlah. See Out, and Law.] A person
excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection.
Blackstone.
Out"law`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Outlawed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Outlawing.]
[AS. &?;tlagian.]
1. To deprive of the benefit and protection of law; to declare to be an
outlaw; to proscribe. Blackstone.
2. To remove from legal jurisdiction or enforcement; as, to outlaw a
debt or claim; to deprive of legal force. "Laws outlawed by necessity."
Fuller.
Out"law`ry (?), n.; pl. Outlawries (&?;).
1. The act of outlawing; the putting a man out of the protection of
law, or the process by which a man (as an absconding criminal) is
deprived of that protection.