Definition of Key out

1. Verb. Identify as in botany or biology, for example.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Key Out

key chains
key exchange
key exchanges
key fob
key fobs
key fruit
key grip
key grips
key in
key into
key lime
key log
key logger
key loggers
key off
key out (current term)
key palm
key pattern
key performance indicator
key press
key presses
key ridge
key ring
key server
key set identifier
key set identifiers
key signature
key signatures
key to the midway
key vein

Literary usage of Key out

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"There was some difficulty in getting the key out which held the wheel in its ... The other employé, Rock, and Mr. Persinger attempted to get the key out, ..."

2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"Mind ; he took a key out of his own pocket ; he did not ask Mrs. Blount for the key, did he ?—There were at this time nobody present but the doctor and ..."

3. Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benj. F. Butler by Benjamin Franklin Butler (1892)
"The fact that he took a key out of a door lock and ran away with it was proven ... The evidence is that the prisoner at the bar took the key out of its ..."

4. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ...by William Cobbett, David Jardine by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1813)
"... 1 supposing he might some how have overlooked it : on this occasion ' he took his key out of his pocket, and he opened the lowest drawer but one, ..."

5. The Practical Hotel Housekeeper by Mary Bresnan (1900)
"She must also take the key out of the door of any room she is working in. Any one can easily slip the pass key out of the door for future use. ..."

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