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OU'T-STREET, f Street in the extremities of a town. 
To OUT-STRET'CH, v.a. To extend ; to fpread out. 
—Out -Jir etch'd lie lay on the cold ground. Milton. 
Make him (land upon the mole-hill, 
That caught at mountains with out-Jlrctched arms. 
Shahefpeare. 
To OUT-STRI'DE, v. a. To furpafs in ftriding.— Out- 
f riding the coloflus of the fun. B. JonJ’on. 
To OUT-STRIP', v. a. [This word Skinner derives 
from out and Jpritzen, to fpout, Germ. I know not whe¬ 
ther it might not have been originally out-trip, the f being 
afterward inferted. Dr. Jolmfon. —It can hardly have been 
out-trip; and I (hould think the derivation of Skinner, 
plaufible as it is, might give place to out, and the Sax. 
y'pfiitan, to Jhoot out, to fprout; and thence to fpring 
forward, or beyond, might eafily be adopted. Todd.] To 
out-go; to leave behind in a race.—A fox may be out¬ 
witted, and a hare out-Jlript. L'EJtrange. —He got the 
Hart of them in point of obedience, and thereby out-Jlript 
them at length in point of knowledge. South. 
With fuch array Harpalice beftrode 
Her Thracian courfer, and out-Jlrip'd the rapid flood. 
Dryden. 
To OUT-SWEA'R, v.a. To over-power by fwearing: 
We fliall have old fwearing, 
But we’ll out-face them, and out-J'wear them too. Shahefp . 
To OUT-SWEE'TEN, v.a. To excel in fweetnefs: 
The leaf of eglantine, which, not to flander, 
Out-fweeten’d not thy breath. Shahefpeare's Cymbeline. 
To OUT-SWELL', v. a. To overflow.—A fad text in a 
Ladder time; in which the rivers of Babylon fwelled not 
fo high with inundation of water in the letter, as the 
waters in the metaphor, out-fwelling and breaking-down 
their banks, have overflown both our church and ftate. 
Jiewyt's Sermons, 1658. 
OUT-TA'KE, prep. Except. Obfolete: 
Of every witte fomewhat he can, 
Out-take that hym lacketh rule 
His own eftate to guyde. Gouier. 
All that was golde men myght fe, 
Out-tahe the fethers and the tie. Chaucer. 
To OUT-TA'LK, v.a. To overpower by talk.—This 
gentleman will out-talk us all. Shahefpeare. 
OUT-TER'M, J. [from out, and terminus, Lat.] Out¬ 
ward figure: 
Not to bear cold forms, nor men’s out-terms, 
Without the inward fires and lives of men. B. Jonfon. 
To OUT-TON'GUE, v. a. To bear down by noife : 
Let him do his fpite: 
My fervices which I have done the figniory 
ShaH out-tongue his complaints, Shahefpeare. 
To OUT-TOP', v. a. To over-top ; to make of lefs im¬ 
portance ; to obfeure.—The treafurer began then to out- 
top me; and appeared to my thoughts likely enough, by 
his daring and boldnefs, in time to do as much to your 
grace. Ld. Keeper Williams's Lett. 1624. 
To OUT-VAL'UE, v.a. To tranfeend in price.—He 
gives us in this life an earned of expefted joys, that out¬ 
values and tranfcends all thole momentary pleafures it re¬ 
quires us to forfake. Boyle. 
To OUT-VEN'OM, v. a. To exceed in poifon : 
’Tis flander; 
Whofe edge is (harper than the fword, whofe tongue 
Out-venoms all the worms of Nile. Shahefpeare's Cymb. 
To OUT-VI'E, v.a. To exceed; to furpafs; to out- 
ftrip.-—One of thefe petty fovereigns will be (till endea¬ 
vouring to equal the pomp of greater princes, as well as 
to out-vie thofe of his own rank. Addilbn. 
Vol. XVIII. No. 1228. 
For folded flocks on fruitful plains 
Fair Britain all the world otd-vies. Dryden. 
Bp. Hurd has the following obfervation upon Addifon’*- 
ufe of this word : “ To vye is to contend with ; to out-vyc, 
to out-do any one in vycing with him. But the word 
feems to be of an ill compofition, and Ihould not, I think, 
be ufed thus abjblutely. If employed at all, it Ihould be 
in fome fuch way as this : ‘ in the affe&ation of pomp and 
pageantry he out-vied others, i. e. in this refpeSt, he (trove 
or contended beyond them.’ I know not if Addifon had 
any authority for the ufe of it: he had, perhaps, done 
better to ufe the common word out-Jlrip." Note on Addi- 
fon’s Remarks on Italy. 
To OUT-VIL'LAIN, v.a. To exceed in villainy.—He 
hath out-villain'd villainy fo far, that the rarity redeems 
him. Shahefpeare's All's Well. 
To OUT-VOI'CE, v.a. To out-roar 5 to exceed in cla¬ 
mour : 
The Englifli beach 
Pales-in the flood with men, with wives and boys, 
Whofe fliouts and claps out-voice the deep-mouth’d fea. 
Shakespeare. 
To OUT-VO'TE, v. a. To conquer by plurality of fuf- 
frages.—-They were out-voted by other fedts of philofo- 
phers, neither for fame nor number lefs than themfelves. 
South. 
OU'T-WAILE, f. A very forrowful thing; an out- 
caft ; the refufe. Chaucer. 
To OUT-WA'LK, v. a. To leave one in walking.—To 
exceed the walking of a fpedlre : 
Have I out-watch’d. 
Yea, and out-walked, any ghoft alive 
In folitary circle, worn my boots. 
Knees, arms, and elbows, out ? B. Jonfon. 
OUT-WA'LL,/. Outward part of a building.—Super¬ 
ficial appearance: 
For confirmation that I am much more 
Than my out-wall, open this purfe, and take 
What it contains. Shahefpeare's K. Lear. 
To OUT-WAT'CH, v.a. To furpafs in watchfulnefs. 
—Have I not out-watch'd and outwalked any ghoft alive ?• 
B. Jonfon's Fortunate Iflcs. 
Or let my lamp, at midnight hour. 
Be feen in fome high lonely tower, 
Where I may oft out-watch the Bear 
With thrice-great Hermes.. Milton's IlPcnf 
To OUT T WEA'R, v. a. To wear-out.—Tolive, and to 
encreafe his race, himfelf out-wears. Donne's Progr. of the 
Soul.—T o pafs tedioufly: 
By the ftream if I the night out-wear, 
Thus fpent already, how (hall nature bear 
The dews defeending and nodturnal air ? Pope. 
To laft longer than fomething elfe. 
To OUT-WEE'D, v. a. To extirpate as a weed: 
Wrath is a fire, and jealoufy a weed ; 
The fparks foon quench, the fpringing weed out-weed. 
Spenjer. 
To OUT-WEE'P, v. a. To exceed in weeping. — His 
cries out-wept his wideft wound. Davenant's Gondibert. 
Meanwhile he fadly fullers in their grief; 
Out-weeps a hermit, and out-prays a faint. Dryden. 
To OUT-WEI'GH, v. a. To exceed in gravity.—Thefe 
inftruments require fo much ftrength for the fupporting 
of the weight to be moved, as may be equal unto it, be- 
fides that other fuper-added power whereby it is out¬ 
weighed and moved. Wilkins's Math. Magick .—To pre¬ 
ponderate; to excel in value or influence.—The mar¬ 
riage of the clergy is attended with the poverty of fome 
of them, which is balanced and out-iveighed by many An¬ 
gle advantages. Atterbury. 
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