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▪ I. outskirt, n.|ˈaʊtskɜːt|
[out- 3.]
1. The outer border. Now usu. in pl.
a.1596Spenser State Irel. Wks. (Globe) 668/1 They mighte keepe both the O-Relyes, and also the O-Farrels, and all that out-skirte of Meathe in awe. 1891Hardy Tess I. xix. 245 The outskirt of the garden in which Tess found herself had been left uncultivated for some years. 1943J. Betjeman Eng. Cities & Small Towns 14, I am reminded of that moving passage about a provincial suburb in Gissing's story Fate and the Apothecary describing, I think it must be, an outskirt of Exeter.
b.1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. ii. §84 He lay near Newburn in the Out-skirts of Northumberland. 1732Sir W. Fownes in Swift's Lett. (1766) II. 167 There are many places, in the out-skirts of the city..very proper. 1778Phil. Trans. LXVIII. 136 The parishes..comprehend many central parts.. and also contain all the out-skirts. 1832H. Martineau Life in Wilds viii. 102 On the outskirts of the wood were the dwellings. 1861Geo. Eliot Silas M. 3 One of those barren parishes lying on the outskirts of civilisation..inhabited by meagre sheep and thinly-scattered shepherds.
fig.1821Lamb Elia Ser. i. Old Benchers I. T., The remote edges and outskirts of history. 1829Carlyle Misc. (1857) II. 78 The wondrous outskirts of Idealism.
2. attrib. or quasi-adj. Situated on the outskirts.
1835Isaac Taylor Spir. Despot. vi. (1855) 270 Horrid and sanguinary rites prevailed among the less civilized and outskirt nations of the empire. 1841–4Emerson Ess. Ser. ii. vi. (1876) 156 This is but outskirt and far-off reflection and echo of the triumph. a1930D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 46 Corpse-eaters They dwell in the outskirt fringes of nowhere.
Hence ˈoutskirter, one who stands or hangs on the outskirts.
1831P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 28 At least 100 more [rooks] were picked up by outskirters and other parties. 1878Stevenson Inland Voy. (1896) 223 To be even one of the outskirters of art, leaves a fine stamp on a man's countenance.
▪ II. outˈskirt, v. rare.
[f. prec. n.: cf. skirt v.]
trans. To skirt. a. To form one of the outskirts of, to border. b. To pass along the outskirts of.
1818Keats Endym. i. 250 What time thou wanderest at eventide Through sunny meadows that outskirt the side Of thine enmossed realms. 1870T. Hardy Wessex Poems 41, I did not out-skirt the spot That no spot on earth excels.
Hence outskirting ppl. a., bordering, lying on the outskirts.
1845Darwin Voy. Nat. iii. (1879) 42 The outskirting houses rose out of the plain like isolated beings. |