Off one's course; outside of the road or route by which one is travelling. Also in figurative context.

Of places: = upland, adj.2 1. Now rare.

Designating a parish, town, district, etc., other than one's own; situated in another parish, town, district, etc.

Chiefly Scottish. Of or belonging to a region outside the precincts of an estate, town, etc.; coming from outside; outlying.

Situated at a distance from the centre of an area; remote, out-of-the-way; (also) living at a distance from a centre of population.

Living or lying in the open or outside an enclosure, park, etc. Cf. outlying, adj. 2. Obsolete. rare.

General attributive.

Out-of-the-way, remote; far removed from civilization. Now usually derogatory.

Of or belonging to the external or outside world; of or belonging to a place remote from the ordinary world; (Science Fiction) from or belonging to…

Situated in, belonging or relating to, etc., the inland part of a country, or a part of the country away from any town.

= backwoodsy, adj.

U.S. Of a college: inland; small, provincial, little-known; (of a person) that lives in or comes from a small, provincial town. Now dated.

Of the nature of the backwoods.

That originates from, or is located in, a remote rural area. Now rare.

Of or relating to a region of a state situated outside the main population centre. Also: coming from or living in another state; = out-of-state, adj.

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, an area upstate; situated upstate, rural; also, designating part of a State remote (esp. north) from a…