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Answer for the clue "One not included as a member ", 8 letters:
outsider

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Outsiders are a fictional alien race in Larry Niven 's Known Space series. They are many-limbed beings that are invariably described as a cat o'nine tails with a fattened handle. Their body composition includes ultra-cold superfluid helium .

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1800, from outside ; figurative sense of "a person isolated from conventional society" is first recorded 1907. The sense of race horses "outside" the favorites is from 1836; hence outside chance (1909).

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group [syn: foreigner ] a constestant (human or animal) not considered to have a good chance to win

Usage examples of outsider.

Outsider was gone, vanished into the heart into the hidden subconscious of a billon linked minds.

He knew that Mason was attempting to understand why Brayen had told an outsider about them.

It was fierce and deadly and in the end the Outsiders, as those with the Z chromosome came to be called, were driven from this land, angry and manless, doomed to die away at last since none were born to replace them.

Family loyalty had prevented her from openly discussing his personal problems with an outsider, but Marcie had read between the lines of what she actually said.

Now to have these outsiders see me in the company of dumpy little Leeta, all milkweed and daisies hanging haphazardly around her ears.

However petty these activities may have appeared to outsiders, for Diefenbaker such occasions were a necessary relief from the racking, perpetual burden which the prime ministership lays on a man.

As for miserliness, if they bought the information about it from Outsiders, well, we know the Outsiders do not sell information cheaply.

Two months cut off in this relative desolation, two months of fishing and the stink of water and rot and mud and Parm all prickly with having outsiders in his hall.

Since Persico and his sergeants all felt handpicked and had all been together for so many years, and those bonds had been calcified by so many shared experiences, any newcomer, even a newly appointed team leader, was likely to be treated like an unproven outsider.

Outsiders in the tribe must have a protector, and so I claim protectorship over her by right of conquest.

This Jew, this perpetual outsider to all societies, becomes the symbol for a resurgent Anglo-American culture.

Outsiders would ask whether the sectarianism was there first and attached itself to the football, or was it that the 81 football created a focus and a stimulant for the sectarianism?

The Sharan merchants are unwilling even to allow the truth of their appearance to be known, walking among outsiders only when cloaked and veiled.

His mother, Amani, was an Outsider who originally heralded from the country of Saudi Arabia.

When old Paolo of Genoa had died they had been left with twenty-nine and Willem had promoted Alain of Arras from page to arbalist rather than take in an outsider.