Outlander
(Out"land*er) n. A foreigner. Wood.

Outlandish
(Out*land"ish) a. [AS. tlendisc foreign. See Out, Land, and - ish.]

1. Foreign; not native.

Him did outlandish women cause to sin.
Neh. xiii. 26.

Its barley water and its outlandish wines.
G. W. Cable.

2. Hence: Not according with usage; strange; rude; barbarous; uncouth; clownish; as, an outlandish dress, behavior, or speech.

Something outlandish, unearthy, or at variance with ordinary fashion.
Hawthorne.

Out*land"ish*ly, adv.Out*land"ish*ness, n.

Outlast
(Out*last") v. t. To exceed in duration; to survive; to endure longer than. Milton.

Outlaugh
(Out*laugh") v. t.

1. To surpass or outdo in laughing. Dryden.

2. To laugh (one) out of a purpose, principle, etc.; to discourage or discomfit by laughing; to laugh down. [R.]

His apprehensions of being outlaughed will force him to continue in a restless obscurity.
Franklin.

Outlaw
(Out"law`) n. [AS. tlaga, tlah. See Out, and Law.] A person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection. Blackstone.

Outlaw
(Out"law`), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Outlawed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Outlawing.] [AS. tlagian.]

1. To deprive of the benefit and protection of law; to declare to be an outlaw; to proscribe. Blackstone.

2. To remove from legal jurisdiction or enforcement; as, to outlaw a debt or claim; to deprive of legal force. "Laws outlawed by necessity." Fuller.

Outlawry
(Out"law`ry) n.; pl. Outlawries

1. The act of outlawing; the putting a man out of the protection of law, or the process by which a man (as an absconding criminal) is deprived of that protection.

2. The state of being an outlaw.

Outlay
(Out*lay") v. t. To lay out; to spread out; to display. [R.] Drayton.

Outlay
(Out"lay`) n.

1. A laying out or expending.

2. That which is expended; expenditure.

3. An outlying haunt. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Outleap
(Out*leap") v. t. To surpass in leaping.

Outleap
(Out"leap`) n. A sally. [R.] Locke.


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