outweigh (outwa)

t. 1. To exceed in weight; weigh more or be heavier than; turn the scale against; overweigh; overbalance; surpa in gravity or importance. When the bad deedes of a great man lately dead out weighed the good, at a dead lift [St. Francis] cast in a siluer Chalice, which the dead partie had sometime bestowed on Francis can deuotion, and weighed vp the other side, and than, on or as on the wing; outstrip in flying. As she attempts at words, his courser springs O'er hills and lawns, and ev'n a wish out-wings. Garth , tr. of Ovid's Meta morph., xiv. 2. Milit ., to outflank. Colonel Dean's and Colonel Pride's (men), outwinging the enemy, could not come to so much share of the action. Cromwell to Lenthall , Aug. 20, 1648 (Carlyle's Cromwell, [I. 291). ( Davies .) 1. To surpa in in