Emily Dickinson Lexicon

OUT'POUR-ED, pp.

Sent forth in a stream.

OUT'POUR-ING, n.

A pouring out; effusion. Milner. Bogue.

OUT-PRAY, v.t.

To exceed in prayer or in earnestness of entreaty. Scott.

OUT-PREACH, v.t.

To surpass in preaching; to produce more effect in inculcating lessons or truth. And for a villain's quick conversion / A pill'ry can outpreach a parson. J. Trumbull.

OUT-PRIZE, v.t.

To exceed in value or estimated worth. Shak.

OUT'RAGE, n. [Fr. id.; It. oltraggio; Sp. and Port. ultraje.]

Injurious violence offered to persons or things; excessive abuse; wanton mischief. Rude abusive language, scurrility, or opprobrious and contemptuous words, may be an outrage to persons, or to decency and civility. A violent attack upon person or property is an outrage. He wrought great outrages, wasting all the country where he went. Spenser.

OUT'RAGE, v.i.

To commit exorbitances; to be guilty of violent rudeness. Ascham.

OUT'RAGE, v.t. [Fr. outrager; Arm. outrachi, outragi; It. oltraggiare; Sp. and Port. ultrajar; from the L. ultra, beyond, It. oltre, with the common termination age; or more probably it is a compound of ultra, oltra, outre, with the Sp. ajar, to spoil, to mar, to abuse with injurious language.]

To treat with violence and wrong; to abuse by rude or insolent language; to injure by rough, rude treatment of any kind. Base and insolent minds outrage men, when they have hopes of doing it without a return. Atterbury. This interview outrages all decency. Broome.

OUT'RA-GED, pp.

Treated with violence or wrong; abused by insolent language.

OUT-RA'GEOUS, a. [It. oltraggioso; Fr. outrageux.]

1. Violent; furious; exorbitant; exceeding all bounds of moderation; as, outrageous villainies; outrageous talk; outrageous abuse. Sidney. Spenser.
2. Excessive; exceeding reason or decency; as, outrageous panegyrie. Dryden.
3. Enormous; atrocious; as, outrageous crimes. Shak.
4. Tumultuous; turbulent.

OUT-RA'GEOUS-LY, adv.

With great violence; furiously; excessively. Spenser. South.

OUT-RA'GEOUS-NESS, n.

Fury; violence; enormity. Dryden.

OUT-RAZE, v.t.

To raze to extermination. Sandys.

OU-TRE, a. [ootra'y; Fr.]

Being out of the common course or limits; extravagant. Geddes.

OUT-REACH, v.t.

To go or extend beyond. Brown.

OUT-REACH-ED, pp.

Reached beyond.

OUT-REAS-ON, v.t.

To excel or surpass in reasoning. South.

OUT-REAS-ON-ED, pp.

Surpassed in reasoning.

OUT-RECK'ON, v.t.

To exceed in assumed computation. Pearson.

OUT-RECK'ON-ED, pp.

Excelled in computation.

OUT-REIGN, v.t.

To reign through the whole of. Spenser.

OUT-RIDE, v.i.

To travel about on horseback, or in a vehicle. Addison.

OUT-RIDE, v.t.

To pass by riding; to ride faster than. Hall.

OUT'RID-ER, n.

1. A summoner whose office is to cite men before the sherif. [Not used.] Dict.
2. One who travels about on horseback.
3. An attending servant.

OUT'RIG-GER, n.

In seamen's language, a strong beam fixed on the side of a ship and projecting from it, in order to secure the masts in the operation of careening, by counteracting the strain it suffers from the effort of the careening tackle; also, a boom occasionally used in the tops to thrust out the breast back-stays to windward, to increase the angle of tension, and give additional security to the top-mast. [See Prow.] Mar. Dict.