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y which anything is let out; a passage out; an exit; a vent. Receiving all, and having no outlet. Fuller.

A little trout; a troutling. Hood.

The outlet from a dam or reservoir; also, a cut to divert the flow of water.

pply of gasoline being regulated by a float which actuates a needle valve controlling the outlet of the feed pipe. Alcohol and other volatile inflammable liquids may be used instead of gasoline.

A passage with only one outlet, as a street closed at one end; a blind alley; hence, a trap.

A place for exit; an outlet; hence, a market for goods. The débouchés were ordered widened to afford easy egress. The Century.

Having to duct or outlet; as, a ductless gland.

To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean.

to drive the train while the timepiece is being wound up. -- Going forth. (Script.) (a) Outlet; way of exit. "Every going forth of the sanctuary." Ezek. xliv. 5. (b) A limit; a border. "The going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadesh-barnea." Num. xxxiv. 4. -- Going out, or Goings out. (Script.) (a) The ut…

a pair of large green glands in Crustacea, supposed to serve as kidneys. They have their outlets at the bases of the larger antennæ. -- Green hand, a novice. [Colloq.] -- Green heart (Bot.), the wood of a lauraceous tree found in the West Indies and in South America, used for shipbuilding or turnery. The green heart…

od head of water, or ten feet head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea.

The place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; -- opposed to outlet.

A cylindrical pipe fitting, having a number of lateral outlets, for connecting one pipe with several others.

An appendage to an inlet or outlet opening of a pipe or vessel, to direct or facilitate the inflow or outflow of a fluid.

A short outlet, or inlet, pipe projecting from the end or side of a hollow vessel, as a steam-engine cylinder or a steam boiler.

An outlet. [Obs.] Spenser.

A loosing from; an escape; an outlet; an evasion. [Obs.] That "whereas" gives me an outloose. Selden.

An outlet for the escape of surplus liquid. Overflow meeting, a meeting constituted of the surplus or overflow of another audience.

In irrigating, a subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.

or pertaining to Pelusium, an ancient city of Egypt; as, the Pelusiac (or former eastern) outlet of the Nile.