Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: OUT-SWEET'EN – OUT-WATCH'
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OUT-SWEET'EN, v.t.
To exceed in sweetness. Shak.
OUT-SWELL', v.t.
To overflow; to exceed in swelling.
OUT-TALK, v.t. [outtauk'.]
To overpower by talking; to exceed in talking. Shak.
OUT-TALK'ED, pp.
Overpowered by talking.
OUT-THROW, v.t.
To throw out or beyond. Swift.
OUT'-TOIL, v.i.
To toil to a degree beyond another.
OUT-TONGUE, v.t. [outtung'.]
To bear down by talk, clamor or noise. Shak.
OUT-TOP', v.t.
To overtop. [Not used.] Williams.
OUT-VAL'UE, v.t.
To exceed in price or value. Boyle.
OUT-VEN'OM, v.t.
To exceed in poison. Shak.
OUT-VIE, v.t.
To exceed; to surpass. Dryden. Addison.
OUT-VIL'LAIN, v.t.
To exceed in villainy. Shak.
OUT-VOICE', v.t. [outvois'.]
To exceed in roaring or clamor. [Not used.] Shak.
OUT-VOTE', v.t.
To exceed in the number of votes given; to defeat by plurality of suffrages. South.
OUT-VOT'ED, pp.
Defeated by plurality of suffrages.
OUT-WALK', v.t. [outwauk'.]
- To walk faster than; to leave behind in walking.
- To exceed the walking of a specter. B. Jonson.
OUT-WALK'ED, pp.
Left behind in walking.
OUT'WALL, n.
- The exterior wall of a building or fortress.
- Superficial appearance. [Unusual.] Shak.
OUT'WARD, a. [Sax. utweard or uteweard; ut, out, and weard, L. versus.]
- External; exterior; forming the superficial part; as, the outward coat of an onion; an outward garment.
- External; visible; opposed to inward; as, outward hate.
- Extrinsic; adventitious. An outward honor for an inward toil. Shak.
- Foreign; not intestine; as, an outward war. [Not now used.] We now say, external or foreign war. Hayward.
- Tending to the exterior part. The fire will force its outward way. Dryden.
- In Scripture, civil; public; as opposed to religious. 1 Chron. xxvi.
- In theology, carnal; fleshly; corporeal; not spiritual; as, the outward man.
OUT'WARD, adv.
- To the outer parts; tending or directed toward the exterior. The light falling on them [black bodies] is not reflected outward. Newton.
- From a port or country; as, a ship bound outward.
OUT'WARD, n.
External form. Shak.
OUT-WARD-BOUND', a.
Proceeding from a port or country.
OUT'WARD-LY, adv.
- Externally; opposed to inwardly; as, outwardly content, but inwardly uneasy.
- In appearance; not sincerely. Many may inwardly reverence the goodness which they outwardly seem to despise.
OUT-WASH', v.t.
To wash out; to cleanse from. [Little used.] Donne.
OUT-WATCH', v.t.
To surpass in watching. B. Jonson.