Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To put out; extinguish: as, outen the light.
- Out; out of; out from.
- Being from without; strange; foreign; peculiar: as, an outen man.
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- verb transitive To
put out ;extinguish . - preposition archaic or dialectal
Out ;out of ; out from. - adjective Being from without; strange; foreign;
fremd ;peculiar .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But she took no notice at all; nor could I get so much as a single word outen her.
The Hidden Hand 1888
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P66 has "outen" (nothing) in this verse while P75 has "oute hen" (not one thing), which is simply a more emphatic form of "outen."
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P66 has "outen" (nothing) in this verse while P75 has "oute hen" (not one thing), which is simply a more emphatic form of "outen."
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P66 has "outen" (nothing) in this verse while P75 has "oute hen" (not one thing), which is simply a more emphatic form of "outen."
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P66 has "outen" (nothing) in this verse while P75 has "oute hen" (not one thing), which is simply a more emphatic form of "outen."
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` An 'may yeh be damned,' sez he to her, an 'then to me, ` Jim, yeh — yeh git outen them good duds o' yourn; I want a right peart slice o 'thet forty acre ploughed 'fore dinner.'
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` An 'may yeh be damned,' sez he to her, an 'then to me, ` Jim, yeh — yeh git outen them good duds o' yourn; I want a right peart slice o 'thet forty acre ploughed 'fore dinner.'
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Every those personal place objects if nonthings where soevers and they just done been doing being in a dromo of todos with-outen a bound to be your trowers.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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For the lordes here han folk of certeyn nombre, als thei may suffise: but the grete Chane hathe every day folke at his costages and expenses, as with outen nombre.
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And so thei eten every day in his court, mo than 30000 persones, with outen goeres and comeres.
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