Howell, Letters, I

v. 11. out porch (out'porch), n. An entrance; a vestibule. Some out porch of the church. Milton , Reformation in Eng., ii. outport (out'port), n. A port at some distance from the seat of trade or from the chief customhouse: distinguished from close port . Simmonds. Wine landed in an outport , and afterwards brought to the port of London by certificate. S. Dowell , Taxes in England, II. 19. outpost (out'post), n. 1. A post or station outside of the limits of a camp, or at a distance from the main body of an army: often used figuratively. Louis the Fourteenth was carrying the outposts of his consolidated monarchy far into Germany. Ticknor , Span. Lit., I. 417. The castle alone in the landscape lay, Like an outpost of winter, dull and gray.