outward 
It is a ni <-ft folyr, n woman to have a fair array initirartt 
iiinl in hireself foul inwai'l. I'/ntin-i-r, I 'arson's Tali-. 
Woe unto you, scribes and rimi liNs! fm\t' 
are like unto u liilnl -r|iiilrln . -, wbich indeed appear beau- 
tlful i:nt'i;ii;i. inn in i- within full of ill-ad men 1 - bones and 
of all unclcaniicSR. Mat. xxlii. 27. 
Let mi- < ply with you in this garb, lest my extent to 
the players, which, I tell you, must show fairly otrfimn/, 
shunlil inoi'e ;ip|ir;ir like eutertaiiunetit than yours. 
Shale., Hamlet, 11. 2. 392. 
Outward face! :i i-ommand to troops to face to the right 
ami left from their center. 
outward (out'wiLnl), . and n. [< ME. outimnl, 
< AS. itti-irt'iirtt, outward, external: seeoutinn-il. 
'"/<'.] I. ". 1. Directed toward the exterior or 
outside. 
The fire will force Its outward way, 
Or, in the prison pent, consume the prey. 
Dryden. 
2. Of or pertaining to the exterior or outside; 
external; outer; extrinsic; formal: opposed to 
inward : as, mere outward change. 
Commend not a man for his beauty ; neither abhor a 
man for his on/ward appearance. Kcclus. xl. .'. 
Hainan was come Into the outieard court of the king's 
house. Esther vl. 4. 
I have cases of buckram for the nonce, to Immaak our 
noted outward garments. Shale., 1 Hen. IV., 1. 2. 203. 
lie may show what outward courage he will : but I be- 
lieve, as cold a night as 'tis, he could wish himself in 
Thames up to the neck. Shak., Hen. V., iv. 1. 118. 
Being both blinded with Lightnings and amazed with 
inward terrours and outward Tempests. 
Pvrciuu, Pilgrimage, p. 360. 
I come to kiss these fair hands, and to shew, 
In outward ceremonies, the dear love 
Writ in my heart. Beau, and Fl., Phllaster, i. >. 
He must have been still a very young man when that 
outward reformation took place which . . . gave evidence 
at least of right Intentions under the direction of a strong 
will. Southey, Bunyan, p. 85. 
3f. Beyond the limits or boundaries; hence, 
foreign. 
It was Intended to raise an outward war to Join with 
some sedition within doors. Sir J. Hayward. 
4. In theol., carnal; fleshly; not spiritual: as, 
the outward man. 
That circumcision, which Is outward in the flesh. 
Rom. II. 28. 
Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man Is 
renewed day by day. 2 Cor. Iv. 16, 
The Magistral hath only to deale with the outward part, 
I mean not of the body alone, but of the mind in all her 
outward acts, which In Scripture Is call'd the outward man. 
Milton, Church-Government, 11. 3. 
5. See the quotation. 
A man given to drinking and other vices, especially of 
living beyond his income and so reducing himself In his 
circumstances, would still be described by his neighbours 
[In Cumberland, England] as an outward man. 
N. and Q., 7th ser., VI. 149. 
Outward angle. See angles, i. Outward charges. 
See charge. Outward euthanasia. See euthaiiaxia. 
= Syn. 2. External, etc. See exterior. 
II. n. 1. External form; external appear- 
ance ; the exterior. 
I do not think 
So fair an otiiward and such stuff within 
Endows a man but he. Shale., Cymbeline, 1. 1. 23. 
2. That which is without ; the outer or objec- 
tive world. [Bare.] 
There Is nothing here, 
Which, from the outward to the inward brought, 
Moulded thy baby thought. Tennyson, Eleanore. 
out-ward (out'ward), . [< out + ward.] A 
ward in a separate wing or building attached 
to a hospital. 
outward-bound (out'wijrd-bound), a. Proceed- 
ing from a port or country : as, an outward-bound 
ship. 
outwardly (out'ward-li), adv. 1. On the ex- 
terior or surface ; outside ; externally ; hence, 
as regards appearance ; visibly; perceptibly. 
They could not so carry closely but both much of their 
doings and sayings were discovered, although outwardly 
they set a fair face on things. 
iV. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. 118. 
I' the name of truth, 
Are ye fantastical, or that indeed 
Which outwardly ye show ? 
Shale., Macbeth, I. 3. 54. 
She is outwardly 
All that bewitches sense, all that entices ; 
Nor is it in our virtue to uncharm it 
Beau, and Ft., Captain, 111. 1. 
Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, 
but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. 
Mat. xxiil. 28. 
2. Away from the center; toward the outer 
part or outside : as, in entomology, a mark pro- 
longed iiuticiirdly. 
Outwardness (out'ward-nes), . The state of 
being outward: objectivity; externality. 
Outwards, ilr. See oiitirnrd. 
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outward-sainted (out'wiinl -san'ted), . I'ui>- 
licly Accounted or outwardly seeming to be a 
naiiit; by implication, hypocritical. [A nmice- 
word.] 
Thl outward-minted deputy, 
Whose settled visage and deliberate word 
Nips youth I' the head, and follies doth cmmew, 
As falcon doth the fowl, Is yet a devil. 
Shot., M. for M , Hi. 1.89. 
OUtwash (out-wi)sh'), c. t. [ = P. >iiln;in.-,lii ii 
= .MI, 1 1. iilii-ii.ichrn = 0. itiisinisi-hiii = Sw. nt- 
i-nsl.ii DMII. udcanke; as out + wash.] To 
washout; cleanse from. Donne. [Rare.] 
outwatch (oiit-woch'), r. t. To surpass in 
watching; watch longer than; observe till the 
object watched disappears. 
Let my lamp at midnight hour 
Be seen In some high lonely tower, 
Where I may oft outicalch the Bear. 
Milton, II Penseroso, L 87. 
outway (out'wa), n. [= D. uitweg = MLG. ut- 
wech = G. anitweg = Sw. utvag = Dan. iidvej; 
as out + wayi.] A way or passage out; an 
outlet. 
outwork 
utterly out wriijlir.il, by the blinding Influences of a subtler. 
>l'-r]iT, m.i moi>' i nmpn If M-ive selfishness. 
Uladstuiie, Might of Kigllt, |i. 1.. 
2. To be too great a burden or task for; over- 
tusk. 
When we see the figure of the house. 
Then must we rate the cost of the erection ; 
w hi, h If we find outweighs ability. 
What do we then but draw anew the model? 
Shot., 2 Hen. IV., L 3. 45. 
OUtwell (out-wel'), P. I. Iran*. Topourforth; 
outpour. 
His [Nllus'i] tattle waves doe fertile slime uutwtll, 
And overflow each plalne and lowly dale. 
N/./MCT-, F. Q.. 1. I. 21. 
II. intrans. To gush or flow forth. 
The slumbrous wave outweUeth. Tennyson, Claribel. 
OUtwelling (out'wel'ing), . [Verbal n. of //- 
inll, i-.] An outflow. 
The Igneous beds were formed by great outwellings of 
molten matter, which spread widely over the surface. 
Encyc. Brit., XXIV. 616. 
OUtwendt (out-wend'), v. i. [ME. outwenden; 
< out + wend.] To go forth. 
le Island, v. 
outwealtht (out-welth'), v. t. To surpass in 
wealth or prosperity. See the quotation under 
outwift, 1. 
outwear (out -war'), v. t. 1. To wear out; 
exhaust utterly; wear away; waste; impair; 
hence, to render obsolete. 
Wicked Time, that all good thoughts doth waste, 
And workes of noblest wits to nought outireart, 
That famous muniment hath quite defaste. 
Speiuer, F. Q., IV. II. 33. 
Their knot of loue 
Tl'd, weav'd, Intangl'd with so true, so long, 
And with a finger of so deep a cunning 
May be out-worn, never undone. 
Fletcher (and another), Two Noble Kinsmen, L 2. 
Better at home lie bed-rid, not only Idle, 
Inglorious, unemployed, with age outworn. 
Milton, S. A., 1. 580. 
Hypocrisy and Custom make their minds 
The fanes of many a worship now outworn. 
Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, 1. 1. 
2. To exhaust gradually by use or persistence; 
use up; consume; hence, to pass away (time); 
last out ; endure to the end of; wait till the ex- 
piration or conclusion of. 
All that day she outwore in wandering. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. xli. 29. 
Come, come, away ! 
The sun is high, and we outwear the day. 
Shak., Hen. V., iv. 2. 68. 
Here by the stream, if I the night nut-wear, 
Thus spent already, how shall nature bear 
The dews descending and nocturnal air? 
Pope, Odyssey, v. 601. 
3. To wear or last longer than ; outlast. 
Loe ! I have made a Calender for every yeare. 
That steele in strength, and time in durance, shall outteeart. 
Spenser, Shep. Cal., Epil. 
OUtweary (out-wer'i), r. t. To weary out; ex- 
haust by weariness ; fatigue exceedingly. 
Yet once more are we resolv'd to try 
1" outweary them through all their sins' variety. 
Cawley, Davidels, Iv. 
The soldier outwearied with his nightly duties might on 
certain conditions absent himself from matins with the 
master's consent Encyc. Brit., XXIII. 163. 
outweed (out-wed'), i>. t. To weed out; extir- 
pate as a weed. 
The springing seed outweed. Spenser, F. Q., II. Iv. 86. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. 8.X L 485S. 
outwlnt (out-win'), F. I. trans. To get out of. 
It Is a darksome delve far under ground, 
With thornes and barren brakes envlrond round, 
That none the same may easily aut-win. 
Spenser, F. Q., IV. i. 20. 
H. intrans. To get out. 
OUtwind (out-wind ), v. t. To extricate by wind- 
ing; unloose. Spenser, P. Q., V. iii. 9. 
OUt-windowt (out'win'do), n. A bay-window ; 
an oriel. 
Many of their rooiues have great out-windows, where 
they sit on cushions In the heat of the day. 
Sandys, Travalles, p. 51. 
outwlng (out- wing'), r. t. 1. To move faster 
than, on or as on the wing; outstrip in flying. 
As she attempts at words, his coarser springs 
O'er hills ana lawns, and ev'n a wish nut-wings. 
Garth, tr. of Ovid's Metamorph. , xlv. 
2. Milit., to outflank. 
Colonel Dean's and Colonel Pride's [men], outwinging the 
enemy, could not come to so much share of the action. 
Cromwell to LenthaU, Aug. 20, 1648 (Carlyle's Cromwell, 
[I. 291). (Davie*.) 
outwit 1 (out-wif), v. t. 1. To surpass in in- 
telligence. 
What arts did Churchmen In former times use when 
they did so much out-wit and out-wealth n - ! 
Up. Oauden, Tears of the Church, p. 253. (Daviet.) 
2. To surpass in plots or stratagems; defeat 
or frustrate by superior ingenuity; prove too 
clever for. 
He never could get favour at Court, because he outwitted 
all the projectors that came neere him. 
Evelyn, Wary, March 22, 1675. 
Do they (men] design to outwit infinite Wisdom, or to 
find such flaws in Ood's government of the World that he 
shall be contented to let them go unpunished? 
StOKngJteet, Sermons, I. li. 
I little thought be should outwit me so ! 
Shelley, The Cenci, I. 1. 
OUtwit 2 t (out' wit), n. [ME., (.out + wit.] The 
faculty of observation, or the knowledge gained 
by observation and experience: opposed to tn- 
irit. 
With Inwlt and with outwitt ymagenen and stndye, 
A best for his body be. Piers Plowman (B), xili. 289. 
??5t*' 1 ( ou t W1TH or -with), adv. and prep. 
; weep more than. 
You carry springs within your eyes, and can 
Outweep the crocodile. Shirley, Love's Cruelty, U. 3. 
outweigh (out-wa'), v. t. 1. To exceed in 
weight ; weigh more or be heavier than ; turn 
the scale against; overweigh; overbalance; 
surpass in gravity or importance. 
When the bad deedes of a great man lately dead out- 
weighed the good, at a dead lift [St. Francis] cast in a siluer 
Chalice, which the dead partie had sometime bestowed on 
Franciscan deuotlon. and weighed vp the other side, and 
so the Diuels lost their prey, r ' ' 
Let him, alone, or so many so minded. 
Wave thus. Shak., Cor., L a 71. 
It was a fault; 
A fault, Bellario. though thy other deeds 
Of truth outweigh'd it 
Beau, and Fl., Phllaster, v. 5. 
Custom, that prepares the partial scale 
In which the little oft outweighs the great. 
Wordsworth, Prelude, ill. 
One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'. 
Browniny, Bishop Blougram's Apology. 
The immense advantages which leisure and learning 
have conferred are largely neutralized, and In some cases 
the outward side ; outwardly; externally. 
That slgnede Ihesu crist for sake of vre kuynde 
Was nout out-with so cler bote with-inne he was clene. 
Joseph of Arimathie (E. E. T. S.), 1. 186. 
II. prep. Without ; outside of. [Scotch.] 
Uthlr places outewith the borowls. 
Quoted in Jtitton-Turner's Vagrants and Vagrancy, p. 339. 
The evidence, outwith her family, of the major having 
previously said that he meant to marry her, was extremely 
meagre, and rested upon the testimony of two witnesses. 
LordDea*. 
outwoman (out-wum'an), r. t. To surpass as 
a woman ; excel in womanliness. [Bare.] 
She could not be unmann'd no, nor outwoman'd. 
Tennyson, Queen Mary, iii. 1. 
outwoodt (out'wud), n. An outlying wood. 
"Bat yonder is an outuvod," said Robin, 
"An outwood all and a shade." 
Rooin Hood and the Old Man (Child's Ballads, V. 2SOX 
outwork (out'werk), a. 1. Work done outside, 
out of doors, or in the fields, as distinguished 
from indoor work. [Scotch.] 2. In fort., one 
of the minor defenses constructed in advance 
of the main work or enceinte. Outworks are works 
raised within or beyond the ditch of a fortified place, for 
