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The quality or state of being oriental or eastern. Sir T. Browne.

To place or turn toward the east; to cause to assume an easterly direction, or to veer eastward.

Of or relating to the time or act of rising; eastern; as, the ortive amplitude of a planet.

One fond of display; a boaster. Sherwood.

One of the Eastern Goths. See Goth.

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

To surpass in marching; to march faster than, or so as to leave behind.

To outgo; to move faster than; to leave behind. [R.] Lamb.

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 excel, or to leave behind, in sailing; to sail faster than. Beau. & Fl.

To strike out; to strike faster than. Shak.

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 exceed in working; to work more or faster than.

The upper hand; advantage; superiority; mastery. He had gotten thereby a great overhand on me. Sir T. More.

One who is lord over another or others; a superior lord; a master. Freeman.

wers capable of dominating others; one fitted to survive in an egoistic struggle for the mastery.

my own composition; my own idea; at my own price. "No man was his own [i. e., no man was master of himself, or in possession of his senses]." Shak. To hold one's own, to keep or maintain one's possessions; to yield nothing; esp., to suffer no loss or disadvantage in a contest. Shak.

The Easter festival. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

The master of a small coaster in the Mediterranean.