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Beyond or outside of the lines of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; in a direction from the hull or from the keel; -- opposed to inboard; as, outboard rigging; swing the davits outboard.

Being, or done, in the open air; being or done outside of certain buildings, as poorhouses, hospitals, etc.; as, outdoor exercise; outdoor relief; outdoor patients.

Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump in cricket; the outer world. Outer bar, in England, the body of junior (or…

Toward the outside. [R.] Grew.

The outside sole of a boot or shoe.

The exterior wall; the outside surface, or appearance. Shak.

Tending to the exterior or outside. The fire will force its outward way. Dryden. -- Out"ward*ly, adv. -- Out"ward*ness, n. Outward stroke. (Steam Engine) See under Stroke.

From the interior part; in a direction from the interior toward the exterior; out; to the outside; beyond; off; away; as, a ship bound outward. The wrong side may be turned outward. Shak. Light falling on them is not reflected outwards. Sir I. Newton. Outward bound, bound in an outward direction or to foreign parts; --…

From inside to outside, above or across the brim. Good measure, pressed down . . . and running over. Luke vi. 38.

To remove; to separate; to cut or shave, as the skin, ring, or outside part, from anything; -- followed by off or away; as; to pare off the ring of fruit; to pare away redundancies.

To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses. Sir T. Herbert. The pargeted ceiling with pendants. R. L. Stevenson.

Ossification which takes place in purely fibrous tracts; the formation of bone outside of the periosteum.

The outside or superficial portions of a body; the surface.

The albumen of a seed, especially that portion which is formed outside of the embryo sac. -- Per`i*sper"mic, a.

By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent them from working for employers with whom the organization is at variance. [Cant]

istence and fertilization of more than one embryonic sac or to the origination of embryos outside of the embryonic sac.

A kind of German biscuit or cake in the form of a twisted ring, salted on the outside.

A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.

g to the years that remain. Lev. xxvii. 18. I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church. Addison.

A long plain double-breasted outside coat for women.