Outer

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Outer \Out"er\ (out"[~e]r), a. [Compar. of {Out}.] [AS. [=u]tor,
     compar. of [=u]t, adv., out. See {Out}, {Utter}, a.]
     Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the
     interior, from a given station, or from any space or position
     regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to
     {inner}; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the


     outer stump in cricket; the outer world.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Outer bar}, in England, the body of junior (or utter)
        barristers; -- so called because in court they occupy a
        place beyond the space reserved for Queen's counsel.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Outer \Out"er\, n.
     (a) The part of a target which is beyond the circles
         surrounding the bull's-eye.
     (b) A shot which strikes the outer of a target.
         [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Outer \Out"er\, n. [From {Out}, v.]
     One who puts out, ousts, or expels; also, an ouster;
     dispossession. [R.]
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  outer
       adj 1: being on the outside or further from a center; "spent hours
              adorning the outer man"; "the outer suburbs" [syn: {outer(a)}]
              [ant: {inner(a)}]
       2: located outside; "outer reality"
       3: being on or toward the outside of the body; "the outer ear"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  23 Moby Thesaurus words for "outer":
     apparent, cortical, epidermic, exomorphic, exterior, external,
     extrinsic, fringe, open, out, outermost, outlying, outmost,
     outside, outstanding, outward, outward-facing, peripheral, public,
     roundabout, seeming, superficial, surface