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Outlie

Outlie \Out*lie"\, v. t. To exceed in lying.
--Bp. Hall.

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outlie

Etymology 1 vb. (context rare transitive English) To tell more or better lies than. Etymology 2

vb. (context rare English) To lie outside, or at the extremes or periphery.

Usage examples of "outlie".

At the same time, the outlying consulates of Dushaun on Onerir and elsewhere in the Allegiancy have been emptied.

On very even land, where the whole surface, for hundreds of acres, slopes gradually in one or two directions, the outlay for mains need not be more than two per cent.

The outlying fields grew first garish with golden ragweed and scarlet poppies, and then dull green again with the brown-knotted rushes and sombre sedge, and all other marish growths, until the re-annexation was complete, and they once more were homogeneous part and parcel of the conquering bog.

The minster and its outlying buildings, the library, and the university were destroyed, and only one of three canons remained in residence.

There is where he should have been, there with the mountainy men, but by the time the tired rider had brought the news to Selui, and by the time Hull had reached Ormiston, it was already too late, and Ozarky was but an outlying province of the expanding Empire, while the Master camped there above Norse, and sent representations to Selui.

In reconnoitring, in distributing proclamations, in collecting arms, in overawing outlying districts, weak columns must be used.

Samuel the First insisted on doing so after the war, as a means of further disrupting outlying communities and distracting them from the business of restablishing a new Government.

From the vine-yard and the vine-press, from the bouvary or ox-farm, from the marl-pits and salterns, even from the distant iron-works of Sowley and the outlying grange of St.

And of the outlying towers, only my sangar remains, which lies between this spot and Khoruk.

The Sarpent has come up one side of the river, and I have come up the other, in order to scout for the outlying rascals, while Jasper brought up the canoe, like a bold-hearted sailor as he is.

Simeon of Cambridge had previously set the example of caring for the unchurched population by his personal labors and the outlay of his large private fortune.

It was here that we reached the outer boundaries of Akkadian rule, and bid farewell to our escort, who would remain, supplementing the garrison of an outlying Akkadian fortress.

In 1670 he penetrated to an outlying Algonkin village, never before visited by a white man.

Ignoring the insult would only invite further attacks on outlying Bactrian farms and trade routes.

Hall, Foxholes, Bearwood, the Vicarage of Mosely, and their outlying acquaintances, their yeomen and their labourers, lived as old-fashioned and hearty a life as if the battle of Sedgemoor had never been fought.