Created beings see nothing but our outside, and can therefore only frame a judgment of us from our exterior actions. Addison's Spectator. I threw open the door of my chamber, and found the family standing on the outside. Id. Two hundred load upon an acre, they reckon the outside of what is to be laid. Mortimer. OUTSIT', v. a. Out and sit. To sit beyond the time of any thing. He that prolongs his meals and sacrifices his time, as well as his other conveniences, to his luxury, how quickly does he outsit his pleasure! South. OUTSLEEP', v. a. Out and sleep. To sleep beyond. Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time: OUTSPEAK', v. a. Out and speak. To speak something beyond; to exceed. Rich stuffs and ornaments of household Shakspeare. Henry VIII. beyond. Let's teach ourselves that honourable stop Not to outsport discretion. Shakspoare. Othello. OUTSPREAD', v. a. Out and spread. To extend; to diffuse. Pope. Out and stand. Το With sails outspread we fly. OUTSTAND', v. a. support; to resist. Each could demolish the other's work with ease enough, but not a man of them tolerably defend his own which was sure never to outstand the first attack that was made. Woodward. I have outstood my time, which is material To the tender of our present. Shakspeare. Cymbeline. OUTSTARE', v. a. Out and stare. To face down; to brow-beat; to out-face with effrontery. I would outstare the sternest eyes that look, To win thee, lady. Shakspeare. Merchant of Venice. These curtained windows, this self-prisoned eye, Outstares the lids of large-lookt tyranny. Crashaw. OUT'STREET, n. s. Out and street. Street in the extremities of a town. OUTSTRETCH', v. a. Out and stretch. To extend; to spread out. Make him stand upon the mole-hill, That caught at mountains with out-stretched arms. Shakspeare. Out-stretched he lay on the cold ground, and oft Cursed his creation. Milton's Paradise Lost. A mountain, at whose verdant feet A spacious plain, out-stretched, in circuit wide Lay pleasant. Id. Paradise Regained. Does Theseus burn! And must not she with out-stretched arms receive him? And with an equal ardour meet his vows? Smith. OUTSTRIP', v. a. According to Skinner, out and Germ. spritzen, to spout. To outgo; leave behind. If thou wilt out-strip death, go across the seas, And live with Richmond from the reach of hell. Shakspeare. Do not smile at me, that I boast her off; For thou shalt find, she will out-strip all praise, And make it halt behind her. Id. Tempest. Thou both their graces in thyself hast more Out-stript, than they did all that went before. Ben Jonson. My soul, more earnestly released, Will out-strip hers; as bullets flown before A later bullet may o'ertake, the powder being more. Donne. With such array Harpalice bestrode Her Thracian courser, and out-stripp'd the rapid flood. Dryden. A fox may be out-witted, and a hare out-stript. L'Estrange. He got the start of them in point of obedience. and thereby out-stript them at length in point of knowledge. South. OUT-SWEET’EN, v. a. Out and sweeten. To excel in sweetness. The leaf of eglantine, which not to slander, Out-sweetened not thy breath. Shakspeare. Cymbeline. OUT-SWEAR', v. a. Out and swear. To overpower by swearing. We shall have old swearing, But we'll out-face them, and out-swear them too. Shakspeare. to surpass. Shakspeare. Out and vie. To exceed; Dryden. For folded flocks, or fruitful plains, Fair Britain all the world outvies. One of these petty sovereigns will be still endeavouring to equal the pomp of greater princes, as well as to out-vie those of his own rank. Addison. OUT-VIL'LAIN, v. a. Out and villain. To exceed in villany. He hath out-villained villainy so far, that the rarity redeems him. Shakspeare. OUT-VOICE', v. a. Out and voice. To outroar; to exceed in clamor. The English beach Pales in the flood with men, with wives and boys, Whose shouts and claps out-voice the deep-mouthed Shakspeare. sea. OUT-VOTE', v.a. Out and vote. To conquer by plurality of suffrages. They were out-voted by other sects of philosophers, neither for fame nor number less than themselves. South. OUT-WALK', v. a. Out and walk. To leave one in walking. OUT-WALL, n. s. Out and wall. Outward part of a building; superficial appearance. For confirmation that I am much more Than my out-wall, open this purse, and take What it contains. Shakspeare. King Lear. OUT-WEED', v. a. Out and weed. To extirpate as a weed. Wrath is a fire, and jealousy a weed; The sparks soon quench, the springing weed outweed. Spenser. OUTWEIGH', v.a. Out and weigh. To exceed in gravity, or excel in influence. If any think brave death out-weighs bad life, Let him express his disposition. Shakspeare. These instruments require so much strength for the supporting of the weight to be moved, as may be equal unto it, besides that other super-added power whereby it is out-weighed and moved. Wilk. All your care is for your prince I see, Your truth to him out-weighs your love to me. Dryden. Whenever he finds the hardship of his slavery outweigh the value of his life, it is in his power, by resisting the will of his master, to draw on himself the death he desires. Locke. The marriage of the clergy is attended with the poverty of some of them, which is balanced and outweighed by many single advantages. Atterbury. As when old father Nilus 'gins to swell, With timely pride about the Egyptian vale, His fattie waves do fertile slime out-well, And overflow each plain and lowly dale. Spenser. OUTWIT, v. a. Out and wit. To cheat; to overcome by stratagem. Justice forbids defrauding, or going beyond our brother in any manner, when we can over-reach and out-wit him in the same. Kettlewell. After the death of Crassus, Pompey found himself out witted by Cæsar, and broke with him. Dryden. The truer hearted any man is, the more liable he is to be imposed on; and then the world calls it outwitting a man, when he is only out-knaved. L'Estrange. Nothing is more equal in justice, and indeed more natural in the direct consequence of effects and selves; and for such as wrestle with Providence, to causes, than for men wickedly wise to out-wit themtrip up their own heels. South. OUTWORK, n. s. Out and work. The parts of a fortification next the enemy. Take care of our out-work, the navy royal, which are the walls of the kingdom; and every great ship is an impregnable fort; and our many safe and commodious ports as the redoubts to secure them. Bacon. Death hath taken in the cut-works, And now assails the fort; I feel, I feel him Gnawing my heart-strings. Denham. OUTWORN', part. From out-wear. Consumed or destroyed by use. Better at home lie bed-rid, idle, Inglorious, unemployed, with age out-worn. In your violent acts, The fall of torrents and the noise of tempests, The boyling of Charybdis, the sea's wildness, The eating force of flames, and wings of winds, Be all out-wrought by your transcendent furies. Ben Jonson. OUTWORTH', v. a. Out and worth. To excel in value. A beggar's book Out-worths a noble's blood. Shakspeare. Henry VIII. OWE, v. a. Sax. ahan; Goth. aga; Isl. } OWING, part. eg. To have or be obliged to pay; to be indebted; to be obliged for; hence sequential; imputable to; and, in a passive but to have, as from a cause; possess: owing, conimproper sense, due as a debt. I owe you much, and, like a witless youth, That which I owe is lost. Shakspeare. Merchant of Venice. If any happy eye Sheridan. For me, who, when I'm happy, оце No thanks to fortune that I'm so, Who long have learned to look at one Dear object, and at one alone. OWEN (Dr. John), an emment and learned dissenting minister, born in 1616, at Hadham m Oxfordshire, of which place his father was vicar. Attwelve years of age he was admitted into Queen's College, Oxford, and in 1635 was made A. M., but soon after, disapproving the new regulations made by archbishop Laud, their chancellor, he was obliged, in 1637, to leave the university; when, taking orders, he became chaplain to Sir Robert Dormer of Ascot, in Oxfordshire, and tutor to his eldest son. He was afterwards chaplain to John lord Lovelace of Hurley, in Berkshire. When the civil war broke out, he openly avowed the cause of the parliament, which caused his uncle to disinherit him. When lord Lovelace joined the royal army, Mr. Owen went to London, and soon after joined the non-conformists. The earl of Warwick gave Mr. Owen the living of Coggeshall; where he soon left the Presbyterians, and formed a church of Independents. He was now sent for several times to preach before the parliament; and Cromwell was so pleased with him that he took him to Ireland, where he remained about half a year. Soon after Cromwell sent him into Scotland; but he also returned thence after about half a year's stay at Edinburgh. He was then promoted to the deanery of Christ Church, Oxford, whither he went in 1651; and Cromwell, being now chancellor of the Univer-ny, nommated him los vice-chancellor. The next year he was created D. D. Dr. Owen enjoyed the post of vice-chancellor five years; during which he behaved with the greatest moderation to the royalists. At the death of Cromwell, he was removed from the vice-chancellorship; and at the Restoration was ejected from his deanery of Christ Church, when he retired to an estate he had purchased at Hadham. Lord Clarendon afterwards offered to prefer him if he would conform, but he declined. He died at Ealing in 1683. His works are printed in 7 vols. folio. OwN, (William), R. A., an English artist of considerable reputation, was a native of Shropshire, and born in 1769. He was educated at the grammar-school, Ludlow, where his passionate love of painting attracted the notice of Mr. Payne Knight. By the advice and assistance of that liberal patron he was sent to London, and placed under Charles Catton; he made an excellent copy of one of Sir Joshua Reynolds's portraits, in consequence of which that great painter paid him much attention; and, after Some slight pecuniary difficulties, settled, in 1800, at l'imlico. In 1813 our artist was appointed principal portrait painter to the prince regent, on which occasion he was offered, but declined, the honor of knighthood. His professional emoluments, as well as his reputation, continuing to mercase, he in 1818 removed to an establishment in Bruton Street, but from this time his health abandoned him; and, although he survived till the February of 1824, yet, during the five last years of his life, he could only bear to be wheeled from his bed-reom to his drawingroom. His disease was immediately occasione I by the carelessness of a chemist's apprentice, who, mixing up for his use a cathartic, and a preparation of opium, known by the name of Battley's Drops,' transposed the labels of the phials. The whole contents of the one, containing the latter, were in consequence swallowed, and the patient fell into a lethargy that proved fatal. Among his historical pieces, his Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green; The Village Schoolmistress; and Road Side, have been engraved, and are very popular. He was enrolled among the members of the Royal Academy in the spring of 1800. Owy (John), an excellent epigrammatist. born in Caernarvonshire, and educated at Winchester, and at New College, Oxford, where he took his degree of LL.B. He became schoolmaster at Tryleigh, and afterwards at Warwick. His Latin Epigrams, Joannis Audoeni Epigrammata, were much esteemed, both at home and abroad, and went through many editions and translations. He died in 1622. OWEN (Henry), a learned divine, born in 1715, in Monmouthshire, and educated first at Ruthin, and next at Jesus College, Oxford, where he took the degree of M. D. He afterwards entered into orders, and became vicar of Edmonton, in Middlesex, and St. Olaves, London. His works are, 1. Observations on Scripture Miracles; 2. Remarks on the four Gospels; 3. Enquiry into the LXX. Version; i. Sermons preached at Boyle's Lecture; 5. Introduction to Hebrew Criticism; 6. Modes of Quotation used by the Evangelists; 7. Scimens, 2 vols. He died in 1795, «Led eighty. OWEN (Thomas), a judge of the common pleas, son of Richard Owen, esq., of Condover in Shropshire. He was educated at Oxford; and, having taken his degree of A. M., he left the university, and entered himself of Lincoln's Inn in London, where he became an eminent counsellor. In 1583 he was elected Lent reader to that society. In 1590 he was made serjeant at law, and queen's serjeant soon after. In 1593 he was made judge of the common-pleas; which office he executed with great abilities and integrity. He died in 1598, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory. He was a learned man, and a patron of literature. He was the author of Reports in the Common Pleas, London, 1656, folio. OWEN (John), M. A., a modern divine, one of the earliest members and long the Church of England's secretary of the Bible Society, was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he obtained a fellowship, and proceeded to the degree of master of arts. In 1791 he travelled through Europe, with a pupil, and on his return published an amusing account of his tour, in two volumes octavo. After this he became curate of Fulham, where his exertions procured him the patronage of bishop Porteus, who gave him the living of Paglesham, in Essex. But Dr. Randolph, the successor of that prelate, insisted upon Mr. Owen's residence at his rectory, by which he was obliged to relinquish the curacy of Fulham; when the inhabitants presented him with a purse of nearly £700. He died September 26th, 1822. His other works, besides tracts and sermons, are, The Retrospect, or Reflections on the State of Religion and Politics in France and Great Britain, 8vo.; The Christian Monitor for the Last Days, 8vo.; Vindication of the Bible Society, 8vo.; History of the same, 4 vols. 8vo. OWHYHEE, the easternmost, and by far the largest, of the Sandwich Islands. It is of a triangular shape. The angular points make the north-east and south extremities, of which the northern is in long. 204° 2′ E., lat. 20° 17′ N.; the eastern in long. 205° 6' E., lat. 19° 34' N.; and the southern extremity in long. 204° 15′ E., lat. 18° 54′ N. Its greatest length, which lies in a direction nearly north and south, is eighty-five miles; its breadth is seventy-two miles; and it is about 255 geographical, or 293 English, miles in circumference. It is divided into six large districts; two of which, on the north-east side, are separated by a mountain that rises in three peaks, which are perpetually covered with snow, and may be seen clearly at forty leagues distance. To the north of this mountain the coast consists of high and steep cliffs, down which fall many beautiful cascades. The whole country is covered with cocoa-nut and bread-fruit trees. The peaks of the mountains on the north-east side are about half a mile in height, and entirely covered with snow. To the south of this mountain the coast presents a prospect of the most dreary kind, the whole country appearing to have undergone a total change by some dreadful convulsion. Among the plantations are a few huts, for shelter to the laborers; but there are no villages at a greater distance from the sea than four or five miles. There are supposed to be on this island above 100,000 inhabitants. The men are above the middle size, stout, well made, and fleshy, but not fat. Their color is brown olive. The women are in general masculine, though there are some exceptions. The features of both sexes are good; and some of the females are really fine women. They are very healthy, and some live to a great age. They are all thieves, without exception. The custom of tattooing prevails greatly among them; but the men have a much larger share of it than the women. Both men and women are very cleanly in their persons; the latter wash their whole bodies in fresh water twice, and sometimes three times, a-day. They are extremely lascivious. Their clothing consists of cloth of different kinds : that worn by the men, which is called marro, is about half a yard wide, and four yards long; that of the women, three-quarters of a yard wide, and of the same length as the men's: this they call pah-o-ouwa; they both wear it round their middle, but the men pass it between their legs. This is the general dress of both sexes; but the better sort sometimes throw a large piece loosely over their shoulders. Besides the marro, they have several other kinds of cloth; all, however, are made from the Chinese paper mulberry tree. The principal of these is the cappa, which is about ten or twelve feet long, and nearly as many wide, and is thick and warm; they wrap themselves up in this when they retire to sleep. They have another kind, which is white, and much thinner; it is sometimes twenty or thirty yards long, and wide in proportion. The marro and pah-o-ouwa are curiously painted of various patterns; but the others are generally white, or dyed red, black, and yellow. The principal ornaments of the men are feather-caps and cloaks. They have also a kind of fly-flap, made of a bunch of feathers, fixed to the end of a thin piece of smooth and polished wood. The handle is very frequently made of one of the bones of the arm or leg of those whom they have killed in battle, curiously inlaid with tortoise-shell : these they deem very valuable, and will not part with them under a great price. This ornament is common to the superiors of both sexes. The ornament which the women value most is the orai. This is a kind of ruff or necklace, made of red, green, black, and yellow feathers, curiously put together, and in most elegant patterns. Others are composed of small variegated shells; and some consist of several rows of twisted hair, with a piece of carved wood or bone, highly polished, the bottom part forming a curve. They have also the poo-remah or bracelet; the most valuable of which are made of boars' tusks, fastened together side by side with a piece of string, by means of a hole drilled through the middle. In 1794 this island was ceded by the king and his chiefs to Great Britain. Mr. Puget, lieutenant of the Discovery, accompanied by some of the officers, went on shore, there displayed the British colors, and took possession of the island in his majesty's name, in conformity to the inclinations of Tamaahmaah and his subjects. On this ceremony being finished, a salute was fired from the vessels: after which the following inscription on copper was deposited in a very conspicuous place at the royal residence:- On the 25th of February 1794, Tamaahmaah, king of Owhyhee, in council with the principal chiefs of the island, assembled on board his Britannic majesty's sloop Discovery, in Karakakooa Bay, and in presence of George Vancouver, commander of the said sloop; lieutenant Peter Puget, commander of his said majesty's armed tender the Chatham; and the other officers of the Discovery, after due consideration, unanimously ceded the said island of Owhyhee to his Britannic majesty, and acknowledged themselves to be subjects of Great Britain.' On this island the celebrated captain Cook fell a sacrifice to a misunderstanding, or sudden impulse of revenge, in the natives, on Sunday the 14th of February, 1779. Since captain Cook discovered these islands, an astonishingly rapid civilisation has taken place amongst the natives, by their intercourse with Europeans. In 1791 captain Vancouver laid down the keel, and prepared the frame-work, of a vessel for the king, whose size was thirtysix feet by nine and a quarter. Ten years after, this chief had increased his navy to twenty vessels of different sizes, from twenty-five to fifty tons, and some of them coppered, chiefly built by Americans. In 1805 his largest vessel was seventy tons, and he was well supplied with naval stores. His people, from making frequent voyages to the north-west coast of America, and in the South Sea whalers, have become expert seamen, and they talk of opening a direct trade in their own vessels with China; the island producing pearls, pearl-shell, and sandal-wood, all valuable in the China market. The king has a fortification round his house, mounting ten guns; and a guard of 200 native soldiers, well disciplined, and perfect in the use of fire-arms, who do regular duty night and day. He has, besides, 2000 stand of arms, and upwards of 12,000 Spanish dollars, together with other valuable articles, which he has collected in trade, and deposited in regular store-houses. Some horned cattle left at Owhyhee by Vancouver have greatly multiplied. OWL, n. s. ? Sax. ule; Dan. ugle; Sans. OWL'ET. Soolloo; Lat. ulula. (All, perhaps, from the noise of the bird). A well-known bird of night... We understand by some owlers, old people die in France. Tatler. By running goods, these graceless outers gain. OWLING, so called from its being usually carried on in the night, is the offence of transporting wool or sheep out of this kingdom, to the detriment of its staple manufacture. This was forbidden at common law, particularly by stat. 11 Edw. III. c. 1, when the importance of our woollen manufacture was first attended to; and there are now many later statutes relating to this offence, the principal of which are those enacted in the reign of queen Elizabeth, and since. The stat. 8 Eliz. c. 3, makes the transportation of live sheep, or embarking them on board any ship, for the first offence, forfeiture of goods, and imprisonment for a year, and that at the end of the year the left hand shall be cut off in some public market, and shall be there nailed up in the openest place; and the second offence is felony. The statutes 12 Car. II. c. 32, and 7 & 8 Will. III. c. 28, make the exportation of wool, sheep, or fullers' earth, liable to pecuniary penalties, and the forfeiture of the interest of the ship and cargo by the owners, if privy; and confiscation of goods, and three years' imprisonment to the master and all the mariners. And the statute 4 Geo. I. c. 11 (amended and farther enforced by 12 Geo. II. c. 21, and 19 Geo. II. c. 34) makes it transportation for seven years, if the penalties be not paid. OWN, n. s. & v. a. Sax. agan; Goth. agn, Now OWN'ERSHIP. Sused as an emphatical addition to personal pronouns, as 6 my own,' his own,' &c., meaning his property or possession. See OwE. Also denoting domestic as distinguished from foreign; mine; or his; yours: to own is to claim as property: hence to avow or avouch; confess: owner is he who owns or possesses; rightful possession: ownership, right of property or possession. Every nation made gods of their own, and put them. in high places. 2 Kings, xvii. 29. I yet never was forsworn, Scarce have coveted what was my own. Shakspeare. It is not enough to break into my garden, Climbing my walls in spite of me the owner, But thou wilt brave me. Id. |