Outlearn
(Out*learn") v. t.

1. To excel or surpass in learing.

2. To learn out [i. e., completely, utterly]; to exhaust knowledge of.

Naught, according to his mind,
He could outlearn.
Spenser.

Men and gods have not outlearned it [love].
Emerson.

Outlet
(Out"let`) n. The place or opening by which anything is let out; a passage out; an exit; a vent.

Receiving all, and having no outlet.
Fuller.

Outlet
(Out*let") v. t. To let out; to emit. [R.] Daniel.

Outlie
(Out*lie") v. t. To exceed in lying. Bp. Hall.

Outlier
(Out"li`er) n.

1. One who does not live where his office, or business, or estate, is. Bentley.

2. That which lies, or is, away from the main body.

3. (Geol.) A part of a rock or stratum lying without, or beyond, the main body, from which it has been separated by denudation.

Outlimb
(Out"limb`) n. An extreme member or part of a thing; a limb. [Obs.] Fuller.

Outline
(Out"line`) n.

1. (a) The line which marks the outer limits of an object or figure; the exterior line or edge; contour. (b) In art: A line drawn by pencil, pen, graver, or the like, by which the boundary of a figure is indicated. (c) A sketch composed of such lines; the delineation of a figure without shading.

Painters, by their outlines, colors, lights, and shadows, represent the same in their pictures.
Dryden.

2. Fig.: A sketch of any scheme; a preliminary or general indication of a plan, system, course of thought, etc.; as, the outline of a speech.

But that larger grief . . .
Is given in outline and no more.
Tennyson.

Syn. — Sketch; draught; delineation. See Sketch.

Outline
(Out"line`), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Outlined ; p. pr. & vb. n. Outlining.]

1. To draw the outline of.

2. Fig.: To sketch out or indicate as by an outline; as, to outline an argument or a campaign.

Outlinear
(Out*lin"e*ar) a. Of or pertaining to an outline; being in, or forming, an outline. Trench.

Outlive
(Out*live") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Outlived ; p. pr. & vb. n. Outliving.] To live beyond, or longer than; to survive.

They live too long who happiness outlive.
Dryden.

Outliver
(Out*liv"er) n. One who outlives. [R.]


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