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outer
CIDE DICTIONARY
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. [1913 Webster]
outer, n.
The part of a target which is beyond the circles surrounding the bull's-eye. [1913 Webster]
One who puts out, ousts, or expels; also, an ouster; dispossession. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
outer, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 outside; external (pierced the outer layer).
2 farther from the centre or inside; relatively far out.
3 objective or physical, not subjective or psychical.
--n.
1 a the division of a target furthest from the bull's-eye. b a shot that strikes this.
2 an outer garment or part of one.
3 Austral. sl. the part of a racecourse outside the enclosure.
4 an outer container for transport or display.
--adj.
1 outside; external (pierced the outer layer).
2 farther from the centre or inside; relatively far out.
3 objective or physical, not subjective or psychical.
--n.
1 a the division of a target furthest from the bull's-eye. b a shot that strikes this.
2 an outer garment or part of one.
3 Austral. sl. the part of a racecourse outside the enclosure.
4 an outer container for transport or display.
Idiom
the outer bar see BAR(1). outer garments clothes worn over other clothes or outdoors. Outer House Sc. Law the hall where judges of the Court of Session sit singly. outer man (or woman) personal appearance; dress. outer planet a planet with an orbit outside the earth's. outer space the universe beyond the earth's atmosphere. the outer world people outside one's own circle.
Etymology
ME f. OUT, replacing UTTER(1)
THESAURUS
outer
apparent, cortical, epidermic, exomorphic, exterior, external, extrinsic, fringe, open, out, outermost, outlying, outmost, outside, outstanding, outward, outward-facing, peripheral, public, roundabout, seeming, superficial, surfaceAlso see definition of "outer" in Bible Study Dictionaries
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