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outˈstare, v.
[out- 18 b.]
trans. To outdo in staring; to stare longer or harder than; to put out of countenance by staring; to look on (the sun, etc.) without blinking or flinching.
1596Shakes. Merch. V. ii. i. 27 (Qo. 1), I would outstare the sternest eyes that look. 1602Marston Antonio's Rev. iii. v, I will..Outstare the terror of thy grimme aspect. 1646Crashaw Delights Muses, On Isaacson's Chronol., The eagle's eye, that can Outstare the broad-beam'd day's meridian. 1855Bailey Mystic 47 He sate and all the stars outstared, Gazing them down, dog, centaur, eagle, bull. |