The Public School Word-book / A conribution to to a historical glossary of words phrases and turns of expression obsolete and in current use peculiar to our great public schools together with some that have been or are modish at the universities

by John Stephen Farmer

Othello. See Round.

Outer, subs. (Durham).—A cad; a “bounder.”

Out-houses (Charterhouse).—All the boarding-houses except Sanderites, Verites, and Gownboys. The names of the eight OUT-HOUSES are Girdlestonites, Lockites, Weekites, Hodgsonites, Bodeites, Daviesites, Pageites, and Robinites (the last a contraction of Robinsonites). Except Bodeites, each house bears the name of its first master. One house, Uskites—from a supposed similarity of the surroundings to the valley of the Usk—disappeared in 1878.

Out-match, subs. (Stonyhurst).—A match played against a visiting team.

Over-school, subs. (Rugby).—A kind of common sitting-room in the “new” building of 1755. The boys’ boxes were kept there, and Ash-planting (q.v.) inflicted. The present school-house hall was built on the site.

Overtoys-box. See Toys.

Ovid (Harrow).—See Upper School.

Owl, subs. (Cambridge: obsolete).—A member of Sidney Sussex College.

Packing-up, intj. (Winchester).—See Peals.