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adjective

Outward adj.

Forming the superficial part; external; exterior; opposed to inward; as, an outward garment or layer. "Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day."

Of or pertaining to the outer surface or to what is external; manifest; public. "Sins outward." "An outward honor for an inward toil."

Foreign; not civil or intestine; as, an outward war. (Obs.)

Tending to the exterior or outside. "The fire will force its outward way."

Outward stroke. (Steam Engine) See under Stroke.

adverb

Outwards, Outward adv. From the interior part; in a direction from the interior toward the exterior; out; to the outside; beyond; off; away; as, a ship bound outward. "The wrong side may be turned outward." "Light falling on them is not reflected outwards."

Outward bound, bound in an outward direction or to foreign parts; said especially of vessels, and opposed to homeward bound.

noun

Outward n. External form; exterior. (R.) "So fair an outward and such stuff within."

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"Outward" Quotes from Famous Books

... hand crumpled the newspaper; then mechanically he folded it and put it in his pocket. His look was once more bent outward; tiny specks, that were big steamboats going very fast, seemed motionless on the sparkling surface of the water afar. His thoughts scattered; he tried to collect them, to realize where he was, how he happened to be there; the ...

— A Man and His Money • Frederic Stewart Isham

... there is more than so, That works such wonders in the minds of men; I, that have often proved, too well it know; And whoso list the like assays to ken, Shall find by trial, and confess it then, That beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, An outward show of things ...

— David Elginbrod • George MacDonald

... Third. Besides these complimentary odes, he wrote piles of instrumental music, a fair heap of anthems, and songs and interludes and overtures for some forty odd plays. This is nearly the sum of our knowledge. His outward life seems to have been uneventful enough. He probably lived the common life of the day—the day being, as I have said, Pepys' day. Mr. Cummings has tried to show him as a seventeenth century Mendelssohn—conventionally idealised—and he quotes ...

— Old Scores and New Readings • John F. Runciman

... the Columbia River to a point above The Dalles, the party left the stream, as they found that it would be impossible to make much headway with the canoes. Obtaining horses from the Indians, they followed the outward route back as far as the Kooskooskie River. Then they turned north and crossed the mountains to the Missoula River. Near the present city of Missoula the party divided, Captain Lewis going up Hell Gate River ...

— The Western United States - A Geographical Reader • Harold Wellman Fairbanks

... remain upon the plantations appear in all outward circumstances to be thoughtless and comparatively content; their light and cheerful nature seems to lift them above the influence of brutal treatment when it is encountered. That they have been called upon to suffer much by being overtasked and cruelly punished in the past, there is no doubt ...

— Due South or Cuba Past and Present • Maturin M. Ballou

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