| 单词 |
outlie |
| 释义 |
▪ I. outˈlie, v.1 rare.
[f. out- 14, 17 + lie v.1]
1. intr. To lie out in the open air; to camp out.
1826J. F. Cooper Mohicans xviii, We are not about to start on a squirrel hunt..but to outlie for days and nights, and to stretch across a wilderness.
2. intr. To lie stretched out, to extend.
1876Browning Pisgah-Sights i. i, How I see all of it, Life there, outlying.
3. trans. To lie beyond or on the outside of.
1873Gentl. Mag. Oct. 383 The forests that outlay the broad lagoons of the river. 1882Burton & Cameron Gold Coast for Gold (1883) I. i. 15 Next morning showed us to port the Cone of Maritimo: it outlies Marsala.
▪ II. outˈlie, v.2
[f. out- 18 + lie v.2]
trans. To outdo in lying.
1597Donne Sat. iv. 47 In which he can..outlie either Jovius or Surius, or both together. 1653Gataker Vind. Annot. Jer. 109 He doth in them out-ly..the Devil himself the Father of lies. 1740Garrick Lying Valet i. ii, To..deceive his mistress, outlie her chamber-maid, and yet be paid for thy honesty! 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xviii. IV. 144 He had now, they said, outlied himself. |
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