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Formmg the superficial part; external; exterior; -- opposed to inward; as, an outward garment or layer. Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. Cor. iv. 16.

he 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; -- said especially of vessels, and opposed to h…

See Outward, adv.

of defense formed by felled trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy.

art out, or form the median line of the body; as, the abductor oculi, which draws the eye outward.

Coming from outward causes; superadded. [Obs.]

With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward. "With one arm akimbo." Irving.

Semblance, or apparent likeness; external show. pl. Outward signs, or circumstances, fitted to make a particular impression or to determine the judgment as to the character of a person or a thing, an act or a state; as, appearances are against him. There was upon the tabernacle, as it were, the appearance of fire. Num.…

The outward or upper part of a thing, as opposed to the inner or lower part; as, the back of the hand, the back of the foot, the back of a hand rail. Methought Love pitying me, when he saw this, Gave me your hands, the backs and palms to kiss. Donne.

Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.

a crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle. Hang out our banners on the outward walls. Shak.

A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank…

To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.

A window forming a bay or recess in a room, and projecting outward from the wall, either in a rectangular, polygonal, or semicircular form; -- often corruptly called a bow window.

e bonnet varies greatly at different times; formerly the front part projected, and spread outward, like the mouth of a funnel.

Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward. Johnson.

One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola.

A swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp. when caused by pressure; as, a bulge in a wall.

Bulged; bulging; bending, or tending to bend, outward. [Colloq.]

To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut. [Written also but.] And Barnsdale there doth butt on Don's well-watered ground. Drayton.