The news put divers young bloods into such a fury as the English ambassadors were not without peril to be outraged. Bacon.

They viewed the vast immeasurable abyss, Outragious as a sea, dark, wasteful, wild. Milton. My characters of Antony and Cleopatra, though they are favourable to them, have nothing of outragious panegyric. Dryden.

When he knew his rival freed and gone, He swells with wrath; he makes outragious moan; He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground; The hollow tower with clamours rings around. Id. Virgil, more discreet than Homer, has contented himself with the partiality of his deities, without bringing them to the outragiousness of blows.

Id. Let lust burn never so outragiously for the present, yet age will in time chill those heats. South.

Base and insolent minds outrage men, when they have hopes of doing it without a return. Atterbury. This interview outrages all decency; she forgets her modesty, and betrays her virtue, by giving too long an audience. Broome.

See with what outrage from the frosty north, The early valiant Swede draws forth his wings In battailous array.

Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule And righteous limitation of its act,

Philips.

By which Heaven moves in pardoning guilty man; And he that shows none, being ripe in years, And conscious of the outrage he commits, Shall seek it, and not find it, in his turn. Cowper. OUTRAM, or OWTRAM (William), D. D., a divine of the established church, was born in Derbyshire in 1625, and educated at Cambridge. After various promotions, he was collated to the archdeaconry of Leicester, and installed prebendary of St. Peter's church in Westminster. He was also rector of St. Margaret's, in the same city. He died in 1679, celebrated for his rabbinical learning, and his acquaintance with the Fathers of the church. His works are, De Sacrificiis Libri duo; quorum altero explicantur omnia Judæorum, et nonnulla Gentium profanarum sacrificia; altero Sacrificium Christi, &c., recently translated by Mr. Allen; Twenty Sermons preached upon different Occasions.

OUTREACH', v. a. Out and reach. To go beyond.

This usage is derived from so many descents of ages, that the cause and author outreach remembrance. Carew.

Our forefathers could never dream so high a crime as parricide, whereas this outreaches that fact, and exceeds the regular distinctions of murder. Browne. OUTRIDE', v. a. Out and ride. To pass by riding.

This advantage age from youth hath won, As not to be outridden, though outrun. Dryden. OUT-RIDER, n. s. Out and rider. A summoner whose office is to cite men before the sheriff.

OUTRIGHT', adv. Out and right. Immediately; without delay; completely.

When these wretches had the ropes about their necks, the first was to be pardoned, the last hanged outright.

Arbuthnot.

By degrees accomplished in the beast, He neighed outright, and all the steed exprest.

Addison.

OUTROAR', v. a. Out and roar. To exceed in roaring.

OUTSCORN', v. a. Out and scorn. To bear down or confront by contempt; to despise; not to mind.

He strives in his little world of man t' outscorn The to and fro conflicting wind and rain.

Shakspeare. OUTSELL', v. a. Out and sell. To exceed in the price for which a thing is sold; to sell at a higher rate than another.

It would soon improve to such a height as to outsel our neighbours, and thereby advance the proportion of our exported commodities. Temple.

Her pretty action did outsel her gift,
And yet enriched it too.

Shakspeare. Cymbeline. OUTSHINE', v. a. Out and shine. To emit lustre; to excel in lustre.

Whose bright outshining beams thy cloudy wrath Witness my son, now in the shade of death; Hath in eternal darkness folded up. Shakspeare.

Denham.

By Shakspeare's, Jonson's, Fletcher's lines, Our stage's lustre, Rome's outshines. Beauty and greatness are so eminently joined in your royal highness, that it were not easy for any but a poet to determine which of them outshines the Dryden.

other.

Will learn t' outshoot you in your proper bow. Dryden. Men are resolved never to outshoot their forefather's mark; but write one after another, and so Norris. the dance goes round in a circle.

OUTSIDE, n. s. Out and side. Superficies; surface; external part; superficial appearance; extreme part; the part beyond.

You shall find his vanities forespent
Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus
Covering discretion with a coat of folly.

Shakspeare. Fortune forbid, my outside have not charmed her!

ld.

Your outside promiseth as much as can be expected from a gentleman.

Let's teach ourselves that honourable stop Not to outsport discretion. Shakspoare. Othello. OUTSPREAD', v. a. Out and spread. To extend; to diffuse.

Pope.

With sails outspread we fly. OUTSTAND', v. a. Out and stand. Το 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

Hold an arrow in a flame for the space of ten pulses, and, when it cometh forth, those parts which were on the outsides of the flame are blacked and turned into a coal. Id.

Milton.

What admirest thou, what transports thee so? An outside? fair, no doubt, and worthy well Thy cherishing and thy love. What pity that so exquisite an outside of a head should not have one grain of sense in it.

L'Estrange.

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:
I fear we shall outsleep the coming morn.
Shakspeare.

OUTSPEAK', v. a. Out and speak. To speak

something beyond; to exceed.

Rich stuffs and ornaments of household
I find at such proud rate, that it outspeaks
Possession of a subject.

Shakspeare. Henry VIII.
OUTSPORT, v. a. Out and sport. To sport

beyond.

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-WALK', v. a. Out and walk.

leave one in walking.

South.

To

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. OUTWIT', v. a. Out and wit. To cheat; to overcome by stratagem.

Spenser.

Justice forbids defrauding, or going beyond our brother in any manner, when we can over-reach and Kettlewell. out-wit him in the same.

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.

OUT'WORK, 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 modious ports as the redoubts to secure them. is an impregnable fort; and our many safe and com

Bacon.

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.

OWE, v. a. 1

Shakspeare. Henry VIII. Sax. ahan; Goth. aga; Isl. OWING, part. eg. To have or be obliged to pay; to be indebted; to be obliged for; hence to have, as from a cause; possess: owing, con

sequential; imputable to; and, in a passive but improper sense, due as a debt.

I owe you much, and, like a witless youth,
That which I owe is lost.

Shakspeare. Merchant of Venice.

Not poppy nor mandragora,
Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world,
Shall ever med'cine thee to that sweet sleep
Which thou owed'st yesterday. Id. Othello.

If any happy eye
This roving wanton shall descry,

Sheridan.

For me, who, when I'm happy, oue No thanks to fortune that Ia so, Who long have learned to look at one Dear object, and at one alone. OWEN (Dr. John, an eminent and learned dissenting minister, born in 1616, at Hadham in Oxfordshire, of which place his father was vicar. Attwelve years of age he was adiitted into Queen's College, Oxford, and in 1635 was made A. M., but soon after, disapproving the new regulations inade by archbishop Land, their chancellor, Le 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 disinberit hit. 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 hiving 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 Scotlan 1; 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 University, nominated him his 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 rovalists. 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. His works are He died at Faling in 1683. printed in 7 vols. folio.

Owns, (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 of that liberal patron he was sent to London, Mr. Payne Knight. By the advice and assistance

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 Pimlico. 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 1813 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-room to his drawingroom. His disease was immediately occasione 1 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 1806.

OWEN (dhn), 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, Londou. His works are, 1. Observations on Scripture Miracles; 2. Remarks on the four Gospels; 3. Enquiry into the LXX. Version; 4. Sermons

reached at Boyle's Lecture; 5. Introduction to Hebrew Criticism; 6. Modes of Quotation used by the Evangelists; 7. Scrmens, 2 vols died in 1725, aged eighty.

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