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Characterized by a current which flows outward; as, an excurrent orifice or tube.

Conducting influences from the spinal cord outward; -- said of the motor or efferent nerves. Opposed to esodic.

The passage of gases, vapors, or liquids thought membranes or porous media from within outward, in the phenomena of osmose; -- opposed to endosmose. See Osmose.

Spreading or extending outwardly in a flat form.

Outward existence. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

External; outward; pertaining to that which is external; -- opposed to interior; as, the exterior part of a sphere. Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man Resemble that it was. Shak.

Outwardly; externally; on the exterior. Shak. They are exteriorly lifelike. J. H. Morse.

External; outward; not inherent. [Obs.] Shak.

Outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body; being without; acting from without; -- opposed to internal; as, the external form or surface of a body. Of all external things, . . . She [Fancy] forms imaginations, aery shapes. Milton.

To make external; to manifest by outward form. Thought externalizes itself in language. Soyce.

In an external manner; outwardly; on the outside; in appearance; visibly.

Not contained in or belonging to a body; external; outward; unessential; -- opposed to intrinsic. The extrinsic aids of education and of artificial culture. I. Taylor.

Facing outwards, or away from the axis of growth; -- said esp. of anthers occupying the outer side of the filament.

A metal ring or grommet, or short metallic tube, the ends of which can be bent outward and over to fasten it in place; -- used to line an eyelet hole. Eyelet hole, a hole made for an eyelet. -- Eyelet punch, a machine for punching eyelet holes and fastening eyelets, as in paper or cloth. -- Eyelet ring. See Eyelet, 2…

The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance. What needeth it his feature to descrive Chaucer. Cheated of feature by dissembling nature. Shak.

To open or spread outwards; to project beyond the perpendicular; as, the sides of a bowl flare; the bows of a ship flare. To flare up, to become suddenly heated or excited; to burst into a passion. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

Opening or speading outwards.

A simple fieldwork, consisting of two faces forming a salient angle pointing outward and open at the gorge.

nfined to them; esp., one who rests in external religious forms, or observes strictly the outward forms of worship, without possessing the life and spirit of religion. As far a formalist from wisdom sits, In judging eyes, as libertines from wits. Young.

formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while it aims to keep fast the outward formality. Milton.