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outside, n., adv., and prep.|aʊtˈsaɪd, ˈaʊtsaɪd|
[f. out a., out- 3 + side n.; cf. inside.
As to the varying stress, see inside.]
A. n.
1. a. That side of anything which is without, or farther from the interior; the external surface.
1505Charter relat. to St. George's Chapel, Windsor in Rel. Ant. II. 116 The fanes on the outsides of the quere, and the creasts, corses, beasts above on the outsides of Maister John Shornes Chappell. 1526Tindale Matt. xxiii. 26 Clense fyrst that which is within the cuppe and the platter, that the outsyde maye also be clene [in v. 25 ‘vtter side’]. 1587Golding De Mornay vi. 64 The spirit of the Lord houered vpon the outside of the deepe. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 121 On each foot he hath five fingers, 3 on the outside, and two on the inside. 1657R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 61 They have climbed six foot high upon the outside of a wall, come in at a window, down on the inside,..and away again. 1705Addison Italy 13 The Duke of Doria's Palace has the best Outside of any in Genoa. 1809Malkin Gil Blas i. v. ⁋9 He..showed the goddess of my devotions the outside of the door. 1893Bookman June 79/1 Years of service in the Library had made him familiar with the outsides of books, but very little with their contents.
b. The outer part or parts of anything, as distinguished from the interior.
1598Barret Theor. Warres 21 The most place of honour is the left and right outsides [of a line of soldiers]. 1655E. Terry Voy. E. Ind. 282 They usually live in the skirts or out sides of great Cities, or Townes. 1799tr. H. Meister's Lett. Eng. 11 note, This absurd custom of riding on the outside of a coach.
c. Fencing. (See inside n. 1 b, quot. 1863.)
2. a. The outer surface considered as that which is seen and presented to observation; the external person as distinguished from the mind or spirit; outward aspect or appearance as opposed to inner nature.
1592Davies Immort. Soul ii. xii. (1714) 30 Sense Outsides knows, the Soul thro' all things sees. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. i. iii. 104 O what a goodlie outside falsehood hath. 1711Steele Spect. No. 33 ⁋1 She is no other than Nature made her, a very beautiful Outside. 1793Burke Let. to Windham Corr. 1844 IV. 201 Since I wrote last, the outside of affairs is a good deal mended. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede v, You'll never persuade me that I can't tell what men are by their outsides.
†b. Outer garments; clothes. Obs.
1614B. Jonson Barth. Fair ii. i, I have seen as fine outsides as either of yours, bring lousy linings to the brokers. a1625Fletcher Love's Cure iii. ii, My Lord has sent me outsides, But..the colours are too sad.
†c. Something worn on the outside which conceals the real features; a mask, a visor; an effigy. Obs.
a1656Bp. Hall Rem. Wks. (1660) 122, I speak not for those that are meer outsides and visors of Christianity. 1676Hobbes Iliad viii. 210 Disgrace of Greece, meer outsides, where are now Your Brags?
d. That which is merely external; outward form as opposed to substance; an externality.
1660tr. Amyraldus' Treat. conc. Relig. iii. vi. 416 A Religion which seem'd to consist wholly in out-side. 1694Penn Rise & Prog. Quakers i. 16 Christians degenerated a-pace into outsides, as Days and Meats, and divers other Ceremonies. 1742Young Nt. Th. viii. 148 A region of outsides! a land of shadows! 1886Pater Imag. Portraits iii. (1887) 113 A penurious young poet, who..would have grasped so eagerly..at the elegant outsides of life.
3. a. The position or locality close to the outer side or surface of anything.
1503Plumpton Lett. 180, I lay at outside ij dayes or I cold have it. 1535Coverdale Ezek. xl. 5 There was a wall on the outsyde rounde aboute the house. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 301 [He] chapit him be the ost ane lyttill, and at ane outsyde watchit him. 1611Bible Judg. vii. 19 So Gideon and the hundred men..came vnto the outside of the campe. a1677Lovers Quarrel xlviii. in Child Ballads (1886) iv. cix. B. 448/1 Will you walk with me to an out-side, Two or three words to talk with me? 1699Bentley Phal. 186 An Altar..which is yet standing on the out-side of the Town. 1784R. Bage Barham Downs II. 167 It waits my Lord's appearance on the outside the iron pales. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. xxxvi, Can I open the door from the outside, I wonder?
b. In isolated regions of Northern Canada and Alaska: the world outside these regions, esp. as an area of settlement and civilization.
1827in Beaver (Winnipeg) (1927) Dec. 141 He was to bring in the last letters from outside which we could expect until next spring. 1898Yukon Midnight Sun (Dawson, Yukon Territory) 11 June 5/2 Many of these are men who have just arrived from the outside. 1904J. Lynch Three Yrs. Klondike 54 On September 22 the last boat left for the ‘outside’ viâ the Lakes and Skagway. 1941G. de M. Poncins Kabloona 13 Only the Arctic existed for them; and everything that lay below the Mackenzie River, was to them the remote, the virtually non-existent ‘Outside’. 1968R. M. Patterson Finlay's River 108 From there the survey party travelled with the horses, passing over the Wolverines in the first snow, headed for Fort St. James and ‘the outside’. 1972Globe & Mail (Toronto) 5 Dec. 35/1 He believes the story of Old Crow is valuable because it also shows how little people in The Outside—the rest of Canada in Yukon language—understand of the situation inside the territory.
c. Austral. The unsettled areas in the interior or bush.
1888‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms I. vii. 95 Dick Dawson came in from outside, and he said things are shocking bad; all the frontage bare already, and the water drying up. 1949Geogr. Mag. Feb. 371 Rural life offers you such terms as backblocks, outback and outside, meaning remote, inland country. 1959Baker Drum 132 Outside, unsettled districts in the interior or bush.
d. slang. The world out of prison; also the world out of the Army, civilian life.
1903‘J. Flynt’ Rise of R. Clowd ii. 80 A boy in a Reform School with a ‘plant’ on the ‘outside’ takes a high place among his companions. 1919D. G. Rowse Doughboy Dope 9 A is the Army at that stage of your young life when you were on what the Army calls ‘the outside’. 1933Amer. Speech VIII. iii. 26/2 ‘Whitey’, who escaped three times from solitary confinement clear to the outside, was an acknowledged eel. 1965C. D. B. Bryan P. S. Wilkinson 369, I never asked..what you did on the outside. 1972C. Drummond Death at Bar ii. 56 Kath hasn't been having it so good, what with a couple of worthless sons who haven't the sense to keep on the outside.
e. In Surfing: see quots.
1963Surfing Yearbk. 42/2 Outside, surfing area past the breaking surf. 1963Pix 28 Sept. 62/3 Outside, the surfing area outside the breaking wave.
4. The outmost limit; the fullest or highest degree or quantity. Chiefly in phr. at the outside, at the utmost, farthest, longest, or most. colloq.
1707Mortimer Husb. iv. v. 78 Two hundred Load upon an Acre, which they reckon the out-side of what is to be laid. 1852Lit. Gaz. Jan. 70/2 In a few weeks, at the outside, we may expect to see [etc.]. 1863F. A. Kemble Resid. Georgia 39 This woman is young, I suppose at the outside not thirty. 1885Law Times Rep. LIII. 60/2 A red light..distant a quarter of a mile at the outside.
5. Anything situated on or forming the outer side, edge, or border: spec. (pl.), the outermost sheets, more or less damaged, of a ream of paper.
1615W. Lawson Country Housew. Gard. (1626) 9 Little Orchards, or few trees, being (in a manner) all out-sides, are so blasted and dangered. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 267/2 The half-quires..contain, generally, 10 sheets; if the paper, however, be of superior quality, only 8 sheets. In the paper-warehouses it is known as ‘outsides’, with no more than 10 sheets to the half-quire. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Outsides, the exterior sheets of a ream of printing or writing paper; spoiled sheets.
6. a. Short for outside passenger on a conveyance.
1789J. Woodforde Diary 13 June (1927) III. 114 For the remaining part of our fare paid..for 1 outside 12/0. a1800in Norfolk Fair (1970) Nov. 31/7 This Coach from Norwich to London by Newmarket every Day Convey 8 Insides..and 6 Outsides in the most Pleasant And Agreeable Stile. 1804in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. VIII. 324 With the outsides he keeps no measures, insisting upon five per cent. on all their baggage. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 38 The outsides, and the horses, and the coachman, seemed reduced to a torpid quietness. 1842Syd. Smith Let. Locking in on Railw. Wks. 1859 II. 322/2 When first mail coaches began to travel twelve miles an hour, the outsides..were never tied to the roof. 1902Chambers's Jrnl. Nov. 715/1 The ‘George’ at Grantham is still..one of the best inns in England, as it was when these two prudent ‘outsides’ left the Yorkshire coach and ‘turned in’ there. 1914‘I. Hay’ Lighter Side School Life vi. 152 He was called at half-past two..and by three o'clock was off as an ‘outside’ upon the Tally-Ho Coach.
b. = outsider 2.
1898[see behind n. 2 b]. 1899Captain II. 186/1, I headed out to the right, [and] saw our outside get it. 1906Field 13 Oct. 610/1 Their outsides showed so crude a conception of passing that [etc.]. 1927Observer 21 Aug. 18/3 The team are young and play attractive football, with a clever set of outsides who combine well. 1963Times 23 Feb. 3/1 Although their forwards were playing such a solid game the Westminster outsides were too slow to beat their opposite numbers.
7. In phr. outside in (usually with turn): So that the outer side becomes the inner; = inside out.
1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 23 Apr., The Circus..looks like Vespasian's amphitheatre turned outside in. 1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan II. 166 Preaching..as if the great world were to be turned..inside out, or outside in. 1863Kingsley Water Bab. i. 18 He did not know that a keeper is only a poacher turned outside in, and a poacher a keeper turned inside out.
8. Short for outside paddle-wheel on a river steamboat.
1876‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer 29 Come ahead on the stabboard! Stop her! Let your outside turn over slow. 1894― in Century Mag. May 19 Set her back on de outside... Come ahead on de inside.
B. adj.
1. That is on, or belongs to, the outer side, surface, edge, or boundary.
outside callipers, a pair of callipers for measuring the outside diameter of a body; outside edge (Skating): see edge n. 7 b; outside finish, requisites for completing the exterior of a wooden building (Webster 1892); outside (jaunting) car: see also jaunting-car; outside passenger, one who travels on the outside of a conveyance.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 184 [The] out-side beauty [of the durian is] no way equall to the inside goodnesse and vertues. 1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 244 Outside and inside Lathing for Plastring. 1733Tull Horse-hoeing Husb. xi. 129 The Outside Rows of Wheat, from which the Earth is Hoed off, before or in the Beginning of Winter. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. iv. 158 They found her wales and outside planks extremely defective. c1810W. Hickey Mem. (1960) 326 One of the stage⁓coaches, with a number of outside passengers..frightened our horse. 1815Chron. in Ann. Reg. 69 A Sailor, who was an outside passenger. 1824J. Johnson Typogr. II. 560 Twenty quires to the ream, of which the two outside quires are called corded or cassie. 1829[see jaunting-car]. 1849W. Allingham Diary 30 June (1907) 49 Our party took leave and mounted a back outside-car in Gloucester Street. 1849Dickens Dav. Copp. (1850) v. 51 The story of my supposed appetite getting wind among the outside passengers, they were merry upon it. 1854Ronalds & Richardson Chem. Technol. I. 249 The outside walls are built hollow, having an air-vent 3 inches wide. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Outside Muster⁓paper, a paper with the outer part blank, but the inner portion ruled and headed; supplied..to form the cover of ships' books. 1874Knight Dict. Mech. 429/2 Inside and outside calipers. 1874‘G. Ramsay’ Thomas Grant i. 23 They drove up on an outside car to the quays. 1887Spectator 25 June 866/1 On his arrival in Dublin, he was profoundly impressed by the Irish outside-car.
2. a. Situated, or having its origin or operation, without; that resides without some place or area; that works out of the house, or out of a workshop or factory.
In some uses indistinguishable from sense 3.
1841Penny Cycl. XIX. 260/1 Some engines have been recently introduced..in which an attempt is made to combine the advantages of inside and outside bearings. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. II. 38 Enough to have an outside perception of his degree and kind of merit. 1862Mrs. Carlyle Lett. III. 101 Mine [room] is quiet as the grave from outside noises. 1871Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. Dec. 28 Outside-cylinder engines are those in which the cylinders are placed outside the smoke-box. 1900Fabian News X. 28/1 ‘Outside’ work means work done entirely in the home by an ‘outside’ worker. a1904Mod. Engage an outside porter to wheel your luggage from one station to the other. A window affording no view of the outside world. a1902S. Butler Way of all Flesh (1903) lxxx. 366 Days before those in which he had begun to bruise himself against the great outside world. 1926Galsworthy Silver Spoon i. iii. 22 Our trade-unionists despise the outside world. They've never seen it. 1947E. F. Russell in Aldiss & Harrison Decade 1940s (1975) 168 He..looked out through the dome... The outside world slumbered. 1969Times 9 Jan. 4/5 They [sc. the Hutterites]..live in almost complete isolation from their neighbours and the outside world. 1976Listener 29 July 104/2 All of us [blacks] will want to see blacks on television. The outside world will be astonished at the talent we have. 1976Norwich Mercury 19 Nov. 2 Mr Sims finished his comments with a reference to the outside world's contact with the school—the wide range of evening classes available, [etc.].
b. Austral. Situated without the line of settlement; situated in the bush.
1881A. C. Grant Bush-Life in Queensld. I. xi. 162 The cattle-buyer, who had a large experience on the out-side country. 1885Mrs. C. Praed Head-Station II. ix. 178 I'm to have charge of one of the outside sheep stations, at what seems to me a liberal salary.
c. spec. of a water closet: situated outside the house, building, etc.
1939M. Spring Rice Working-Class Wives iv. 73 Mrs. P. of Glasgow... Under the drawbacks of her house she says ‘Outside lavatory, (used by six families.) Public house at close which is objectionable [etc.].’ 1943Our Towns (Women's Group on Public Welfare) iii. 88 The outside closets are generally much less well kept than the inside ones... The majority of houses have outside W.C.'s only. 1959B. J. Farmer Murder Next Year ii. 7 The keys of the house had been left in the outside w.c. 1960P. Hastings Sandals for my Feet i. i. 13 I'm tired of..the smell of damp and that filthy outside loo. 1974P. Highsmith Ripley's Game ii. 11 The little brick structure, formerly an outside toilet, that served as a tool shed.
3. a. Not included in or belonging to the place, establishment, institution, or society in question.
1881Daily News 13 Sept. 5/1 Outside opinion has evidently had its influence on the City Fathers. 1884Manch. Exam 14 May 5/5 The outside public appear disposed to take Mr. C—at his own valuation. 1886in Pall Mall G. 7 Aug. 1/2 In matters relating to its exhibitions the Royal Academy stands on the same footing with regard to ‘outside’ artists, as the Society of British Artists, the Institutes, and other private societies holding open exhibitions. 1894Westm. Gaz. 23 Apr. 6/1 More destructive to the business of ‘outside’ brokers than the action of the Stock Exchange in depriving them of the ‘tape’.
b. In Northern Canada and Alaska: belonging to or obtained from another part of the world, esp. from the settled or urbanized parts.
1896C. Whitney On Snow-Shoes to Barren Grounds 40 Gairdner had annoyed me a great deal, and no doubt we had worried him not a little, breaking in upon the even and lethargic tenor of his monotonous life with our ‘out⁓side’ (as the great world is called by the denizens of this lone land) hustling ways. 1904J. Lynch Three Yrs. Klondike 141 The leader is always a small ‘outside’ dog, usually of the Scotch collie breed. 1922H. Footner Huntress 189 No bannock and sow-belly; no sir! Real raised outside bread and genuine cow-butter from the mission. 1958P. Berton Klondike Fever ix. 307 Expense!.. Don't show your ignorance by using that cheap Outside word. 1977Globe & Mail (Toronto) 8 Jan. 11/7 By special arrangement, one outside reporter will attend the dance.
†4. That has only an outside, or external appearance, without internal reality or substance; having empty show; superficial. Obs.
1643Milton Divorce i. vi, Where love cannot be, there can be left of wedlock nothing, but the empty husk of an outside matrimony. 1679M. Prance Addit. Narr. Pop. Plot 12 Used by the Professors of that out-side Religion. 1728Pope Dunc. i. 135 The rest [books] on Out-side merit but presume, Or serve..to fill a room.
5. Reaching the utmost limit; utmost, farthest, greatest, extreme.
1857Trollope Barchester T. i. 2 The outside period during which breath could be supported within the body of the dying man. 1893Mundella in Daily News 21 Feb. 3/3, I believe..I have given you the very outside prices that are being paid.
6. Special collocations: outside broadcast (see quot. 1941); outside broadcaster, (a) one who makes or supervises an outside broadcast; (b) an outside contributor to broadcasting; outside broadcasting, the action of making an outside broadcast; outside cabin, a cabin with a window or porthole on the side of the ship; outside chance, a very unlikely chance; outside forward, in association football and hockey, either of the two players, called the outside left or right (see below), of the forward line; outside half = fly-half (fly n.2 8); outside interest, an interest not directly or necessarily connected with one's everyday life or interests; outside job slang, a crime committed in a house, etc., by a person not connected or associated with the household or building concerned; outside leaf, an outer leaf on a vegetable, esp. cabbage; outside left, right, in association football and hockey, a player playing on the extreme left or right of the forward line; outside line, a telephonic connection with an external exchange (cf. line n.2 1 e); outside man U.S. slang, one involved in any of various special roles in a confidence trick or robbery; outside right (see outside left above).
1927B.B.C. Handbk. 1928 274 Outside broadcast, a broadcast item taking place at some point other than the studio. 1937Discovery Nov. 331/1 Outside broadcasts of entertainments and public events can be readily arranged. 1941B.B.C. Gloss. Broadcasting Terms 22 Outside broadcast (abbrev. O.B.), programme originating elsewhere than in the studio of a broadcasting organization; specifically broadcast description of an event in progress. 1953News Chron. 2 June 3/5 It is a long way from 1937, when B.B.C television mounted its first outside broadcast from Hyde Park Corner on another Coronation day. 1972I. Hamilton Thrill Machine xv. 63 He had brought the outside broadcast truck.
1971R. Lewis Error of Judgment i. 10 The technicians were already bundling out of the van, unloading..mysterious television equipment. Outside broadcasters. 1972P. Black Biggest Aspidistra iii. ii. 164 Gilbert Harding..began on the entertainment side of radio as an outside broadcaster.
1929Melody Maker Apr. 363/2 Outside broadcasting is now not so much worth your while. 1937Discovery Feb. 43/2 Much of the popularity of television will be linked up with the development of outside broadcasting. 1972P. Black Biggest Aspidistra i. iii. 27 In the early days the bands played mostly in clubs and hotels, and so were part of outside broadcasting.
1963Outside cabin [see inside adj. a]. 1966Guardian 29 Oct. 5/5 Two-berth outside cabins with private shower and w.c. 1971‘A. Garve’ Late Bill Smith i. 33 The Greek motor vessel Circe specially built as a luxury yacht for a limited number of privileged passengers; fully air-conditioned and stabilised; swimming pool and two bars; all outside cabins.
1909Daily Chron. 11 Jan. 4/6 The chance that the right marriage of poetry and music should come is an outside one. 1928R. A. Knox Footsteps at Lock xiv. 135 By an outside chance you might find it lying about somewhere. 1930A. P. Herbert Water Gipsies xx. 300 Here she was, risking everything..going all out for an outside chance. 1973‘D. Rutherford’ Kick Start viii. 169 He had an outside chance of lifting the moon stones from under Hadim's nose.
1897Encycl. Sport I. 517/1 (Hockey) Of the two outside forwards, he on the right has much the easier position in which to play. 1898J. Goodall Assoc. Football 18, I would not tell the outside forward that it is his duty to centre the ball. 1935Encycl. Sports 289/1 (Association Football) The throw-in is usually done by a half-back or by an outside forward. 1949Rugby League Football (‘Know the Game’ Series) 8 Stand off half back or outside half. 1969Programme (Llanelli v. Swansea 1 Apr.) 6 Gwyn Ashby. Maswr. Outside-half. 1971Guardian 22 Feb. 16/5 Dick Cowman..gave a superb exhibition of outside-half play.
1860J. W. Palmer tr. Michelet's Love iv. vii. 235 It is the fault of the labor, the business, the outside interests and the cases with which I have been occupied. 1925R. Hall Saturday Life xxix. 301 Could two deeply-loving and devoted people tolerate outside interests? 1974R. Rendell Face of Trespass ii. 26 What you need..is some outside interest, something to take you out of yourself.
1925A. Christie Secret of Chimneys xii. 120 Either he was killed by someone in the house, and that someone unlatched the window after I had gone to make it look like an outside job..or else..I'm lying. 1928Wodehouse Money for Nothing v. 104 It's got to look like an outside job. 1931A. Christie Sittaford Mystery xi. 92 The police are quite certain that this is not what they call an ‘outside job’—I mean, it wasn't a burglar. The broken open window was faked. 1972Outside job [see inside job s.v. inside a. e].
1739E. Smith Compl. Housewife (ed. 9) 37 Take a well-shap'd Cabbage, peel off some of the out⁓side leaves. 1747H. Glasse Art of Cookery iv. 57 Take a fine White-heart Cabbage..half boil it..take great Care not to break off any of the the outside Leaves. 1861Mrs. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. 560 Boiled cabbage... Pick off all the dead outside leaves. 1960Good Housek. Cookery Bk. (rev. ed.) 217/1 Wash the chicory and remove the outside leaves. Ibid. 218/1 Leeks... Remove the coarse outside leaves.
1900Football Who's Who 134 Cassidy, Joseph, Manchester City (outside left). 1905Gibson & Pickford Assoc. Football I. 161 Every one knows Alec Smith. He's the outside left of the Rangers. 1960B. Liddell My Soccer Story xvi. 102 To get down to my final choice at outside-left, I vote for Peter McParland, an unorthodox type of winger with a wonderful turn of speed. 1965Men's Hockey (‘Know the Game’ Series) (rev. ed.) 24/2 The outside right when about to pass to his left will find it more convenient to have the ball a little in front of his left foot. The outside left, however, must make a half turn to the right when passing right [etc.]. 1975Liverpool Echo (Football ed.) 1 Feb. 3/1 There seems to have been some debate as to who was the Liverpool outside left before Billy Liddell.
1944Outside line [see line n.2 1 e]. 1962E. S. Gardner Case of Blonde Bonanza (1967) x. 117 You can't get an outside line on these phones unless they connect you. 1972D. Bloodworth Any Number can Play xx. 203 Ivansong seized the telephone (which..was automatically switched to an outside line).
1926J. Black You can't Win ix. 111 He..made his living serving as ‘target’ or outside man, for the yegg mobs that preyed on country banks. 1937N.Y. Times 22 Dec. 22 Outside man, a spy under a cover, but not masquerading as an employe of a plant. 1938F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad xiv. 151 She was acting as look out or ‘outside man’ for two expert safe breakers. 1947Amer. Speech XXII. 169/1 Outside-man, the member of a shell-mob who locates promising suckers on the lot, steers them to the game, and assists in the play.
1890C. W. Alcock Football: Assoc. Game 48 The outside-right should not be more than eight or ten yards beyond him. 1974Sunday Mail 14 Apr. 39/1 Both goals..were scored by the outside rights.
C. adv. (Short for on or to the outside.)
1. a. Of position: On the outside of certain limits; externally; out in the open air; in the open sea beyond a harbour; not within some body, association, or community that may be in question.
1813T. D. Broughton Lett. Mahratta Camp (1892) 55 They could..see every thing that took place outside. 1845M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 17 The body..posted themselves, fully armed, outside, under the portico. 1848Dickens Dombey iii, It was as blank a house inside as outside. 1865E. Lucas in Essays Ser. i. 309 While the world outside was being opposed, convinced [etc.]. 1866Whittier Maids of Attitash 133 He better sees who stands outside Than they who in procession ride. 1872Mark Twain Innoc. Abr. ii. 20 ‘Outside’..there was a tremendous sea on.
b. In Northern Canada and Alaska: in the settled or urbanized areas outside these regions; abroad.
1898F. Russell Explor. Far North 80 To ‘go in’, by the way, is to descend the Athabasca; to return to civilization is to ‘go outside’. 1923F. Waldo Down Mackenzie through Gt. Lone Land 246, I had thought that life beyond the 65th parallel or so was life beyond the pale; but I was now to learn that the Arctic Circle is the inner circle, and the real outsider is—of course—the one who lives ‘Outside’. 1945R. W. Service Ploughman of Moon 321 If I had been Outside it would have taken me five years to save a thousand dollars. 1955Whitehorse (Yukon Territory) Star 24 Feb. 2/1 One of the outstanding characteristics of the Yukon is the general indifference to what is going on Outside. 1970Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 1 Nov. 13/3 Sam Otto spent 14 years in the Barren Lands and Northwest Territories, without going outside once.
c. Austral. In the interior or bush. rare.
1911C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xxxv. 317 But, be the ‘inside’ country never so tame and densely populated, there will always be a huge stretch of country ‘outside’ which cannot by any known means be closely settled.
d. slang. Out of prison; in civilian life.
1919W. Lang Sea-Lawyer's Log ix. 108 You got to 'ave some bloody religion in the Navy. Now, wot church did you go to outside? 1937Research Stud. (Washington State Coll., Pullman) V. 19 A boy entering this institution [sc. a reformatory] learns more bad habits than he would ever think of learning out side. 1961Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1210/1, I don't care what you were ‘outside’; you're in the Andrew now, so don't forget it, or you'll be in the rattle.
e. In Surfing: see quots.
1962T. Masters Surfing made Easy 65 Outside, out past the breaking waves, or at the furthest break. 1962Austral. Women's Weekly 24 Oct. (Suppl.) 3/3 Outside or out the back, a long way out at sea, beyond the first line of breakers.
2. Of motion or direction: To the exterior.
1889‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms xxiv, The men and women were ordered to come outside. Mod. Some of the party stepped outside to get a better view of the lightning.
3. outside of, prep. phr. (cf. out of prep. phr.).
a. Without the walls, limits, or bounds of; not within; exterior to; also, To the exterior of, outward from.
outside of a horse (colloq.) on horseback; to get outside of (slang), (a) to swallow (so to be outside of); (b) U.S. to master or understand (Farmer Americanisms 1889).
1839–40I. Taylor Anc. Chr. (1842) II. vii. 303 The sepulchre lay outside of the ancient city. 1869Galaxy June 831 Don't let's get outside of more'n a bottle apiece, and that plain whiskey. 1878O. W. Holmes Motley 69 His objects of interest outside of his special work. 1886[see get v. 45]. 1889‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms xv, He looked better outside of a horse than on his own legs. 1890D. Arrowsmith in Big Game N. Amer. 521 My wife said she knew, from his [a racoon's] full stomach and his sneaking look, that he was outside of her pet turkey. 1915J. Webster Dear Enemy 174 He likes to dine outside of the family vault. 1943G. Greene Ministry of Fear i. ii. 29 Murderers..are very, very seldom..gentlemen. Outside of story-books. 1975Nature 20 Mar. p. xx (Advt.), These books are..distributed outside of the U.S.A. and Canada by Academic Press. 1976Gramophone Nov. 903/2, I was able to spend some time in their CD-4 four-channel disc cutting room—the most important such facility outside of Japan.
b. colloq. (orig. U.S.) Beyond the number or body of, with the exception of.
1859A. L. Elwyn Gloss. Supposed Americanisms 82 Outside, this word is frequently used by writers in newspapers in a sense not known to the language. In a Ledger of a late date, there is a phrase..‘outside of the Secretary of War’, for ‘no one but that official’. 1889Farmer Americanisms s.v., Outside of the tradesmen there was no one at the meeting. 1890Century Mag. 127/2, I do not often see anybody outside of my servants, being not at all given to visiting. 1913R. Fry Let. 5 Apr. (1972) II. 367 I'm very much interested by what you said about the need of some big belief outside of art. 1968Listener 22 Aug. 234/1 The only power we have is to expel a union for corruption or for following a communist or a fascist policy. Outside of that the unions pretty much take care of their own business. 1972New York 8 May 62/2 Outside of a slightly annoying tendency to call all female customers ‘Hon’, everything about Mr. Blume inspires confidence.
D. prep. (Shortened from outside of.)
(Without-side the door is used, c 1760, by Mrs. F. Sheridan Sidney Biddulph II. 298, III. 221.)
1. a. Outside of; on the outer side of; external to. outside the ropes (slang), without knowledge of a matter; in the position of an outsider.
1826J. H. Newman Lett. (1891) I. 140 As I came outside the Southampton coach to Oxford, I felt as if I could have rooted up St. Mary's spire. 1846Penny Cycl. Suppl. II. 670/1 [Engines] in which the cylinders are fixed outside the framing. 1852Gladstone Glean. (1879) IV. 151 All countries outside the Roman border. 1861Lever One of Them lii, Until I came to understand the thing, I was always ‘outside the ropes’. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 180 The cause of the tides is to be found outside our earth.
b. Beyond the limits of (any domain of action or thought, any subject or matter).
1852Gladstone Glean. (1879) IV. 210 Those services, which lie outside the common routine. 1877L. Tollemache in Fortn. Rev. Dec. 848 Natural forces are in themselves neither moral nor immoral, but outside morality. 1894J. T. Fowler Adamnan Introd. 67 Any description of them would be outside the purpose of the present work.
c. Beyond, in addition to, besides, except. dial.
1868Yates Rock Ahead i. ii, ‘Outside them two, and the Squire in his grave..nobody..knows the rights of the story.’
2. Of motion or direction: To the outer side of, to the exterior of, to what lies without or beyond.
1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xxix. 384 [They] flung themselves outside the skin between us. 1885Law Rep. 29 Chanc. Div. 451 The Court cannot go outside the pleadings in the present action. 1896Daily News 29 Sept. 6/2 ‘Will you be so kind as to go outside the door and shut it?’
3. Comb. outsideman, a man who does work outside.
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour (1861) II. 447/1 The outsideman, whose business it is to attend to the pipe, which reaches from the cesspool..to the gullyhole. |