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ght or decency; excessive abuse; wanton mischief; gross injury. Chaucer. He wrought great outrages, wasting all the country. Spenser.

Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous crimes." Shak. "Outrageous panegyric." Dryden.

The utmost or last extremity. Combat à outrance, a fight to the end, or to the death.

To exceed in rank; hence, to take precedence of.

To outshine. [R.] Skelton.

See Outrage, v. i. [Obs.] This warn I you, that ye not suddenly Out of yourself for no woe should outraye. Chaucer.

To obliterate. [Obs.] Sandys.

Being out of the common course or limits; extravagant; bizarre.

To reach beyond.

To excel or surpass in reasoning; to reason better than. South.

To exceed in reckoning or computation. Bp. Pearson.

Excessive presumption. [R.] B. Jonson.

To surpass in giving rede, or counsel. [Obs.] See Atrede. Chaucer.

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

A riding out; an excursion. [R.]

One who rides out on horseback. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Any spar or projecting timber run out for temporary use, as from a ship's mast, to hold a rope or a sail extended, or from a building, to support hoisting teckle.

Immediately; without delay; at once; as, he was killed outright.

To excel in volume of ringing sound; to ring louder than.

To surpass in a rivalry.