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To surpass in flying; to fly beyond or faster than. Shak. Winged with fear outflies the wind. Waller.

To gaze beyond; to exceed in sharpness or persistence of seeing or of looking; hence, to stare out of countenance.

To go beyond; to exceed in swiftness; to surpass; to outdo.

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

To live beyond, or longer than; to survive. They live too long who happiness outlive. Dryden.

Lying or being at a distance from the central part, or the main body; being on, or beyond, the frontier; exterior; remote; detached.

The state of being out or beyond; separateness.

To pass beyond; to exceed in progress.

To reach beyond.

To go beyond in reigning; to reign through the whole of, or longer than. [R.] Spenser.

To surpass in speed of riding; to ride beyond or faster than. Shak.

To exceed, or leave behind, in running; to run faster than; to outstrip; to go beyond. Your zeal outruns my wishes. Sir W. Scott. The other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulcher. Jhon xx. 4.

To see beyond; to excel in cer

To exceed or excel in shooting; to shoot beyond. Bacon. Men are resolved never to outshoot their forefathers' mark. Norris.

To remain sitting, or in session, longer than, or beyond the time of; to outstay.

To soar beyond or above.

To stay beyond. "I have outstood my time." Shak.

To stay beyond or longer than. She concluded to outstay him. Mad. D' Arblay.

To go faster than; to outrun; to advance beyond; to leave behing. Appetites which . . . had outstripped the hours. Southey. He still outstript me in the race. Tennyson.

To swell beyond; to overflow. [Obs.] Hewyt.