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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Out-stānd’, v. i.p. 928To project outward from the main body. 2. To stand or remain beyond the proper time; to be abroad; hence, to be unpaid, as a debt, and the like. The whole amount of revenues . . . as well outstanding…
  2. Out-stănd’, v. t.p. 928To resist effectually; to withstand; to sustain without yielding. [Rare.] 2. To stand beyond the proper time. Shak.
  3. Out-stāre', v. t.p. 928To face down; to browbeat; to outface with effrontery. I would outstare the sternest eyes that look, To win thee. Shak.
  4. Out’stărt’ing, a.p. 928Starting out. Coleridge.
  5. Out-stēp', v. t.p. 928To step or go beyond; to exceed.
  6. Out-stōrm’, v. t.p. 928To excel in storming. Insults the tempest and outstorms the skies. J. Barlow.
  7. Out'-street, n.p. 928A street in the extremities of a town.
  8. Out-strĕtch', v. t.p. 928To stretch or spread out; to expand.
  9. Out-stride', v. t.p. 928To surpass in striding. B. Jonson.
  10. Out-strip', v. t.p. 928To outgo; to outrun; to advance beyond; to leave behind. “Appetites which, quickened by exercise, had outstripped the hours.” Southey.
  11. Out-sŭf'fer, v. t.p. 928To exceed in suffering; to surpass in the endurance of suffering.
  12. Out-swear', v. t.p. 928To exceed in swearing; to overpower by swearing. Shak.
  13. Out-sweet’en, v. t.p. 928To exceed in sweetness. Shak.
  14. Out-swēll', v. t.p. 928To exceed in swelling; to overflow.
  15. Out-tāke' or Out-tāk'en, prep.p. 928Except; save. [Obs.] Wycliffe. Chaucer.
  16. Out-talk', v. t.p. 928To overpower by talking; to exceed in talking. Shak.
  17. Out-tēll', v. t.p. 928To surpass in telling; to tell, count, or reckon more than.
  18. Out'tĕrm, n.p. 928An external or superficial thing; outward manner; superficial remark, and the like. [Rare.] “Not to bear cold forms, nor men's outterms.” B. Jonson.
  19. Out-thrōw', v. t.p. 928To throw out or beyond. Swift.
  20. Out-toil', v. t.p. 928To toil to a degree beyond another.
  21. Out-tóngue', v. t.p. 928To bear down by talk, clamor, or noise. Shak.
  22. Out-tōp', v. t.p. 928To overtop. [Obs.] Williams.
  23. Out-trāv'el, v. t.p. 928To exceed in traveling; to travel more than.
  24. Out-twine', v. t.p. 928To disentangle; to extricate. He stopped, and from the wound the reed out-twined. Fairfax.
  25. Out-ū'sure, v. t.p. 928To surpass in usurious exactions; to exceed in usury. [Obs.] Pope.
  26. Out-vāl'ūe, v. t.p. 928To exceed in price or value.
  27. Out-vēn'om, v. t.p. 928To exceed in poison. Shak.
  28. Out-vie', v. t.p. 928To exceed; to surpass.
  29. Out-vil'lain, v. t.p. 928To exceed in villainy. Shak.
  30. Out-voice', v. t.p. 928To exceed in roaring or clamor; to drown the voice of. [Obs.] Shak.
  31. Out-vōte', v. t.p. 928To exceed in the number of votes given; to defeat by plurality of suffrages.
  32. Out-walk', v. t.p. 928To walk faster than; to leave behind in walking.
  33. Out'wall, n.p. 928The exterior wall of a building or fortress. 2. Superficial appearance. [Rare.] Shak.
  34. Out'ward, a.p. 928Forming the superficial part; external; exterior;—opposed to inward; as, an outward garment or layer. 2. Extrinsic; adventitious. “An outward honor for an inward toil.” Shak. 3. Foreign; not civil or…
  35. Out'ward, n.p. 929External form; the outside part; exterior. [Rare.] Shak.
  36. Out'ward, adv.p. 929To the outer parts; tending or directed toward the exterior. The light falling on them [black bodies] is not reflected outward. Newton. 2. From a port or country; to some foreign region; sea-ward…
  37. Out'ward-bound', a.p. 929Bound in an outward direction or to foreign parts;—said especially of ships, and opposed to homeward-bound.
  38. Out'ward-ly, adv.p. 929In an outward manner; on the outside; externally; — opposed to inwardly.
  39. Out'wards, adv.p. 929See OUTWARD.
  40. Out-wash', v. t.p. 929To wash out; to cleanse from. [Obs.] Donne.
  41. Out-watch', v. t.p. 929To surpass in watching. B. Jonson.
  42. Out'wāy, n.p. 929A way or passage out. [Rare.] “Divers streets and outways.” P. Fletcher.
  43. Out-wēar', v. t.p. 929To wear out. [Obs.] Donne. 2. To spend or pass in a tedious or wearisome manner; to endure to the end. [Rare.] “By the stream, if I the night outwear.” Pope. 3. To last longer than; to surpass or…
  44. Out-wēa'ry, v. t.p. 929To weary or tire out; to fatigue.
  45. Out-weed', v. t.p. 929To weed out; to extirpate, as a weed. [Obs.] Spenser.
  46. Out-weep', v. t.p. 929To exceed in weeping. Dryden.
  47. Out-weigh', v. t.p. 929To exceed in weight. 2. To exceed in value, influence, or importance. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas. Pope.
  48. Out-wĕll', v. t. or i.p. 929To pour out. [Obs.] His fatty waves do fertile slime outwell. Spenser.
  49. Out-whōre', v. t.p. 929To exceed in lewdness. Pope.
  50. Out-win', v. t.p. 929To get out of. [Obs.] Spenser.
  51. Out-wind', v. t.p. 929To extricate by winding; to unloose. More.
  52. Out-wing', v. t.p. 929To move faster on the wing; to outstrip in flying, or as in flying. Garth.
  53. Out-wit', v. t.p. 929To surpass in design or stratagem; to overreach; to defeat or frustrate by superior ingenuity.
  54. Out-wōe’, v. t.p. 929To exceed in sorrow. [Obs.] “Let none outwoe me.” Marston.
  55. Out-work', v. t.p. 929To surpass in work or labor.
  56. Out'work, n.p. 929(Fort.) A part of a fortress situated without the principal wall, within or beyond the principal ditch.
  57. Out-worth', v. t.p. 929To exceed in value.
  58. Out-wrĕst', v. t.p. 929To extort; to draw from or forth by violence. [Obs.] Spenser.
  59. Out-write', v. t.p. 929To surpass in writing.
  60. Out-zā'ny, v. t.p. 929To exceed in buffoonery.