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† outˈrive, v. Obs.
[out- 15, 14.]
1. trans. To rive out, to tear out or apart forcibly; to break up (moorland or rough pasture land).
1597–8Bp. Hall Sat. iv. i. 11 Should all in rage the curse⁓beat page out-rive. 1677Corshill Baron-Court Bk. in Ayr & Wigton Arch. Coll. IV. 138 For the sowme of sex pond scotis money for outriveing of bent land. 1749Fairfax's Tasso xvi. lxiii. (ed. 4), I will o'ertake him, and out-rive his Heart.
2. intr. To tear or burst asunder. Sc.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (1858) I. 312 Breist plaittis brak and all the ruvis outrave. |