OUT. 
K)S 
called I was out. —In a Rate of extin&ion.—Her candle 
goeth not out by night. Prov. xxxi. 18. 
This candle burns not clear; ’tis I muft fnuffit, 
Then out it goes. Shakefpeare's Hen. VIII. 
Thinkft thou the fiery fever will go out 
With titles blown from adulation. Shakefpeare's Hen. V. 
In a Rate of being exhaufted.—Large coals are propereft 
for drefling meat; and, when they are out, if you happen 
to mifcarry in any difli, lay the fault upon want of coals. 
Swift. —Not in employment; not in office: 
So we'll live, and hear poor rogues 
Talk of court-news ; and we’ll talk with them too; 
Who lofes, and who wins; who’s in, who’s out. Shahefp. 
Not in any fport or party.—The knave will flick by thee: 
he will not out, he is true bred. Shakefpeare's Hen. IV.—I 
never was out at a mad frolic, though this is the madded 
I ever undertook. Dryden. —To the end.—Hear me out. 
Dryden. 
You have ftill your happinefs in doubt, 
Or eife ’tis paft, and you have dream’d it out. Dryden. 
Loudly ; without reflraint: 
At all I laugh he laughs, no doubt; 
The only difference is, I dare laugh out. Pope. 
Not in the hands of the owner.-—If the laying of taxes 
upon commodities does affeft the land that is out at rack- 
rent, it is plain it does equally aff'edl all the other land in 
England too. Locke. —Thofe lands were out upon leafes 
of four years, after the expiration of which, tenants were 
obliged to renew. Arhulhnot. —In an error.—According 
to Hobbes’s companion of reafoning with cafting-up ac¬ 
counts, whoever finds a miftake in the fum-total, muft 
allow himfelf out, though, after repeated trials, he may 
not fee in which article he has mifreckoned. Swift. 
As he that hath been often told his fault, 
And ftill perfifts, is as impertinent 
As a mufician that will always play, 
And yet is always out at the fame note. Rofcommon. 
At-a lofs; in a puzzle.—This youth was fuch a mercurial, 
as the like hath feldom been known ; and could make his 
own part, if at any time he chanced to be out. Bacon's 
Hen. VII. 
Like a dull aftor now : 
I have forgot my part, and I am out, 
Even to a full difgrace. Shakefpeare. 
With torn clothes. The parts being out, that is, not co¬ 
vered : 
Evidences fwore; 
Who hither coming, out at heels and knees, 
For this had titles. Dryden. 
Away; fo as to confume.—Let all perfons avoid nicenefs 
in their cloathing or diet, becaufe they drefs and comb 
out all their opportunities of morning devotion, and fleep 
out the care for their fouls. Bp. Taylor. —Deficient; as, 
Out of pocket, noting lofs.—Upon the great Bible he was 
out fifty pounds, and reimburft himfelf only by felling two 
copies. Fell. —If is ufed emphatically before alas: 
Out, alas! no fea, I find, 
Is troubled like a lover’s mind. Suckling'. 
It is added emphatically to verbs of difcovery.—If ye will 
not do fo, be fure your fin will find you out. Num. xxxii. 23. 
OUT, interj. An expreffion of abhorrence or expulfion. 
—Out on thee, rude man; thou doft fhame thy mother. 
Shakefpeare. — Out, you mad-headed ape ! a weazel hath 
not fuch a deal of fpleen. Shakefpeare's Hen. IV. 
Out, out, hyena ; thefe are thy wonted arts 
To break all faith. Milton's S. A. 
It has fometimes upon after it.— Out upon this half-fac’d 
ieilowfliip. Shakefpeare. 
Out upon it! I have lov’d 
Three whole days together; 
And am like to love three more, 
If it prove fair weather. Suckling. 
OUT of, prep, [of feems to be the prepofition, and out 
only to modify the fenfe of of] From : noting produce.— 
Thofe bards, coming many hundred years after, could 
not know what was done in former ages, nor deliver cer¬ 
tainty of any thing, but what they feigned out of their own 
unlearned heads. SpenJ'er on Ireland. —Alders and a flies 
have been feen to grow out of fteeples, but they mani- 
feftly grow out of clefts. Bacon. —Juices of fruits are 
watery and oily: among the watery are all the fruits out 
of which drink is expreffed; as the grape, the apple, the 
pear, and cherry. Bacon. —He is fofter than Ovid ; he 
touches the paflions more delicately; and performs all 
this out o/*his own fund, without diving into the fciences 
for a fupply. Dryden.' 
So many Neroes and Caligulas 
Out of thefe crooked fhores muft daily rife. Spenfer. 
Not in : noting exclufion, difmiffion, abfence, or derelic¬ 
tion.-—Guiltinefs will lpeak, though tongues were out of 
ufe. Shakefpeare. 
My retreat the belt companions grace ; 
Chiefs out of war, and ftatefmen out of place. Pope. 
No longer in: 
Enjoy the prefent fmiling hour, 
And put it out of fortune’s power. Dryden. 
Not in : noting unfitnefs.—He is witty out of leafon; 
leaving the imitation of nature, and the cooler dictates 
of his judgement. Dryden. 
Thou’lt fay my paflion’s out of feafon, 
That Cato’s great example and misfortunes 
Should both confpire to drive it from my thoughts. Addifon. 
Not within : relating to a houfe.—Court holy-water in a 
dry houfe, is better than the rain-waters out of door. 
Shakefpeare's K. Lear. — From: noting copy.—St. Paul 
quotes one of their poets for this laying, notwithftanding 
T. G’s cenfure of them out of Horace. Stillingfleet. —From : 
noting refeue.—Chriftianity recovered the law of nature 
out of all thofe errors with which it was overgrown in the 
times of paganifm. Addifon's Freeholder. —Notin: noting- 
exorbitance orirregularity.—Uiingold thread-bare phrafes 
will often make you go out of your way to find and apply 
them. Swift. —From one thing to fomething different.— 
He that looks on the eternal things that are not feen, 
will, through thofe optics, exa&ly difeern the vanity of 
all that is vilible; will be neither frighted nor flattered out 
of his duty. Decay of Clir. Piety. —To a different ftate 
from ; in a different ftate.—When the mouth is out of 
tafte, it maketh things tafte fometimes fait, chiefly bitter, 
and fometimes loathfome, but never fweet. Bacon. 
They all at once employ their thronging darts, 
But out of order thrown, in air they join, 
And multitude makes fruftrate the defign. Dryden. 
Not according to.—That there be an equality, fo that no 
man afts or fpeaks out o/charafter. Broom's View of Ep. 
Poem.— To a different ftate from : noting feparation.—If 
ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, 
it might he of fome ufe; but it is made ufe of to laugh 
men out of virtue and good fenfe, by attacking every thing 
folemn and ferious. Addifon.— Beyond.—The Supreme 
Being has made the bell arguments for his own exiflence, 
in the formation of the heavens and the earth, and which 
a man of fenfe cannot forbear attending to, who is out of 
the noife of human affairs. Addifon. 
What, out of hearing gone ? no found, no word ? 
Alack, where are you > Shakefpeare. 
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