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outlying
CIDE DICTIONARY
outlying, a.
Lying or being at a distance from the central part, or the main body; being on, or beyond, the frontier; exterior; remote; detached. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
outlying
apparent, cortical, distant, epidermic, exomorphic, exterior, external, extraneous, extraorganismal, extrinsic, far, far-flung, far-off, faraway, farthest, foreign, fringe, furthest, impersonal, nonsubjective, objective, open, out, out-of-the-way, outer, outermost, outmost, outside, outstanding, outward, outward-facing, peripheral, public, remote, removed, roundabout, seeming, superficial, surfaceROGET THESAURUS
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Remainder
N remainder, residue, remains, remanent, remnant, rest, relic, leavings, heeltap, odds and ends, cheesepairings, candle ends, orts, residuum, dregs, refuse, stubble, result, educt, fag-end, ruins, wreck, skeleton, stump, alluvium, surplus, overplus, excess, balance, complement, superplus, surplusage, superfluity, survival, survivance, remaining, left, left behind left over, residual, residuary, over, odd, unconsumed, sedimentary, surviving, net, exceeding, over and above, outlying, outstanding, cast off, superfluous.Exteriority
N exteriority, outside, exterior, surface, superficies, skin, superstratum, disk, disc, face, facet, extrados, excentricity, eccentricity, circumjacence, exterior, external, outer most, outward, outlying, outside, outdoor, round about, extramural, extralimitary, extramundane, superficial, skin-deep, frontal, discoid, extraregarding, excentric, eccentric, outstanding, extrinsic, ecdemic, exomorphic, externally, out, with out, over, outwards, ab extra, out of doors, extra muros, in the open air, sub Jove, sub dio, a la belle etoile, al fresco.For further exploring for "outlying" in Webster Dictionary Online