come outer (kumouter)

Literally, one who comes out; hence, one who abandons or emphatically di ents from an established creed, opinion, custom, sect, etc.; a radical reformer, especially as to religious doctrine or practice. [Slang, Ú. S.] I am a Christian man of the sect called Come - outers . Haliburton (Sam. Slick), Human Nature. L-R is orthodox, and you are a kind of come outer, but you will like each other for all that. S. Bowles , in Merriam, I. 209. comephorid comephorid (ko-mef (ko-mef'ō-rid), n. A fish of the family Come pho rid a . Com ephori dae (kom-e-for'i-dē), n . pl . [NL., Com ephor us + -ida .] A family of acanthopterygian fishes, typified by the genus Comepho rus. The body is elongate and naked, the head large with a depre ed produced snout, the mouth deeply cleft and with teeth on the jaws and palate; there are 2 dorsals, the second long like the anal, and no ventrals. Only one species is known, Com ephor us baikalensis .