outrider (outri"der)

[ Here pelure and palfrayes poure menne lyflode, And religious out - ryders reclused in here cloistres. Piers Plowman (C), v. 116. (c) A person on horseback, especially a servant, who precedes or accompanies a carriage. Then came the out - rider for the royal carriage, and then the Prince of Wales' carriage. T. C. Crawford , English Life, p. 30. (dt) One who is in the habit of riding out for pleasure. A monk ther was, a fair for the maistrie, An out - rydere, that loved venerye [hunting]. Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 166. (e) A highwayman. (Prov. Eng.] I fear thou art some outrider , that lives by taking of purses here on Ba et's Heath. Heywood, 1 Edw. IV. (Works, ed. Pearson, I. 43). outrigger (out'rig"ėr), n . 1. Naut .: ( a ) A spar rigged out from a ship's top or cro trees, to spread the breast-backstays. (b) Any boom breaks down every fence and partition, every board and plank, that stands within the expre ion of his applause. Add is on, Spectator, No. 235. radiate forth; flash out, as a ray. Therefore man's soul from God's own life outray'd. Dr. H. More, Psych a than asia, III. ii. 22. outrageous at his suspicions? - why, the consciousne of your innocence. Sheridan , School for Scandal, iv. 3. 3. Atrocious; flagrantly contrary to or regard- le of authority, law, order, morality, or de- cency. Think not, although in writing I preferr'd The manner of thy vile outrageous crimes, That therefore I have forged. run through, outre , beyond: see outray1.] Pa ing the bounds of what is usual and proper, or conventionally correct; extravagantly odd or peculiar; fantastically or preposterously ex- aggerated. Such outré characters as militiamen themselves would W. Cooke , Foote, I. 67. join in ridiculing. Caught in a burst of unexpected storm, And pelted with outrageous epithets. Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. =Syn. 2. Exorbitant, extravagant.-3. Wicked, Heinous , etc. (see atrocious ), mad, frantic, villainous. or extend beyond. Man went to make an ambitious tower to outreach the clouds. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 665. 2. To cheat; overreach. ( c ) A heavy spar or strong beam wood placed acro a ship's deck, lashed securely to both sides of the ship, and having tackles from its projecting ends to the masthead, to a ist in securing the mast while the ship is hove down. (d) Any spar thrust out to help to give a lead to a purchase or to extend a sail.-2. An iron bracket fixed to the outside of a boat and carrying a rowlock at its extremity, designed to increase the leverage of the oar. Hence-3. A light boat provided with such apparatus. Looking at the river, we find the introduction of the outrigger , a ve el which Leech represents as highly unpopular with short gentlemen requiring a "boat for an hour ." Fortnightly Rev. , N. S., XL. 54. 4. A frame rigged out from the side of canoes in the islands of the Indian and Pacific outrigger oceans, to form a counterpoise and prevent the boat from upsetting. Such outriggers are sometimes placed on both sides of the boat, sometimes only on one Canoe with Outrigger. side. They generally consist of two spars, rigged out one from each end of the canoe, with a canoe-shaped block of wood or bamboo connecting their outer ends. 5. In mach.: ( a ) A pulley or wheel extended outside of the general frame of a machine. ( b ) The jib of a crane, or a joist projecting from a building to support a hoisting-tackle.-6. See the quotation. παρήορος (SC. ἵππος), a horse which draws by the side of the regular pair ( ξυνωρίς ), an outrigger. Liddell and Scott , English-Greek Lexicon, under παρήορος. outrigger-hoist (out'rig-er-hoist), n. - A hoisting-apparatus in guide-posts rigged out from an outer wall, as distinguished from a hatchway-hoist. E. H. Knight. outright (out-rit'), adv. [ A reuer of the trone ther ran out -ryzte. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), i. 1057. When these wretches had the ropes about their necks, the first was to be pardoned, the last hanged outright . Arbuthnot . 2. To the full extent; completely; entirely; altogether; without reservation: as, to settle a bargain outright. Within a whyle after (as he that is falling is soone put ouer) the frere made the foole madde outright, and broughte him blyndfielde downe into the diepest doungeon of that deuelish heresy. Sir T. More, Works, p. 483. Nay, Eleanor, then must I chide outright: Presumptuous dame, ill-nurtured Eleanor. 4188 My Imagination out - runs all you can say. Steele, Tender Husband, iv. 1. 2. To run so as to escape; escape by or as by running; hence, to elude. If these men have defeated the law and outrun native punishment, though they can outstrip men, they have no wings to fly from God. Shak ., Hen. V., iv. 1. 176. 3. To pa beyond the bounds of; exceed: as, to allow zeal to outrun discretion. Those who formerly had outrunne the canons with their additional conform i tie (cere mon i zing more than was enjoyned) now would make the canons come up to them. Fuller , Ch. Hist., XI. iii. 14. A boy whose tongue outruns his knowledge. M. Arnold, Empedocles on Etna. To outrun the constable. See constable . II. in trans. To run out. When the whale has been harpooned, the first order given is "Stern all!" to clear the boat from the whale, and the next is "Wet line!" to prevent the friction from the out running line. Fisheries of U. S., V. ii. 265. That which runs