out-brayed, pt. t. brayed out, uttered aloud. Sackville, Induction, st. 18. Doubtless confused with [abraid].
out-breast, to outvoice, surpass in singing. Two Noble Kinsmen, v. 3. 145.
outcept, except. B. Jonson, Tale of a Tub, i. 2 (Pan); ii. 1 (Hilts).
out-cry, an auction; because such a sale was proclaimed by the common crier. B. Jonson, Catiline, ii. 1 (Fulvia); New Inn, i. 1 (Host); Fletcher, Maid in the Mill, v. 1 (Bellides). See Nares.
outrecuidance, arrogance. Chapman, Mons. d’Olive, iv. (Dique); Eastward Ho, iv. 1 (or 2) (Golding). F. oultrecuidance, an overweening presumption, pride, arrogancy (Cotgr.); F. outrecuidance; O. Prov. oltracuidar, oltra, L. ultra, beyond + cuidar, to think, L. cogitare.
outrider, a highwayman. Heywood, 1 Edw. IV (Hobs), vol. i, p. 43.
outsquat, to throw out (as from a sling), to scatter; ‘The greatest sort with slings their plummet-lompes of lead outsquats’, Phaer, tr. of Aeneid, vii. 687.
overcraw, to triumph over, lit. to crow over. Spenser, F. Q. i. 9. 50. See Nares.
overdight, pp. covered over. Spenser, F. Q. ii. 7. 53; iv. 8. 34. Dight, pp., appears in later poetic language to be often taken as an archaic form of decked, see NED. (s.v. Dight, vb. 10).
overflown, flushed with wine. Middleton, Phœnix, iv. 2 (Ph.). Cp. Milton, P. L., i. 502, ‘Then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.’