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To act as a tout. See 2d Tout. [Cant. Eng.]

All together; hence, in costume, the fine arts, etc., the general effect of a work as a whole, without regard to the execution of the separate perts.

e, an obtrusive candidate for office. [Colloq.] The prey of ring droppers, . . . duffers, touters, or any of those bloodless sharpers who are, perhaps, better known to the police. Dickens.

That by which one can pass anywhere; a safe-conduct. [Obs.] Dryden.

A display, as of plate, equipage, etc.; that which is displayed. [Coloq.] Dickens.

orous; robust; sinewy; muscular; hence, firm; resolute; dauntless. With hearts stern and stout. Chaucer. A stouter champion never handled sword. Shak. He lost the character of a bold, stout, magnanimous man. Clarendon. The lords all stand To clear their cause, most resolutely stout. Daniel.

Having a brave heart; courageous. -- Stout"-heart"ed*ness, n.

Somewhat stout; somewhat corpulent.

In a stout manner; lustily; boldly; obstinately; as, he stoutly defended himself.

The state or quality of being stout.

A man's coat to be worn over his other garments; an overcoat, especially when long, and fitting closely like a body coat. Gay.

and affection; to idolize. The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Montouth. Macaulay.

e of Japan, by some supposed to have been the progenitors of the Japanese. The Ainos are stout and short, with hairy bodies.

irmness; to overcome with sudden terror or horror; to dismay; as, the sight appalled the stoutest heart. The house of peers was somewhat appalled at this alarum. Clarendon.

om, and consisting of strips of worsted chenille so colored as to produce a pattern on a stout jute backing. It has a fine soft pile. So called from Axminster, England, where it was formerly (1755 -- 1835) made.

Among leather dealers, the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.

A kind of stout walking shoe, laced in front. A man who uses his balmorals to tread on your toes. George Eliot.

A kind of cloak or surtout. [Obs.] Johnson. Let the looped bavaroy the fop embrace. Gay.

rs it is also the pr. tense plural of Be. See 1st Bee. Assembled been a senate grave and stout. Fairfax.

A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart. Look that the crossbowmen lack not bolts. Sir W. Scott. A fool's bolt is soon shot. Shak.