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Definition of Outpointing
1. outpoint [v] - See also: outpoint
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outpointing
Literary usage of Outpointing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Handy Book of Curious Information: Comprising Strange Happenings in the by William Shepard Walsh (1913)
"It had three circles, outpointing to the number of rods, another to the miles,
by ten to a thousand, with all the subdivisions of quarters; very pretty and ..."
2. Outing (1893)
"outpointing : Sailing nearer than her rival to the direction from which the wind
blows. So the account may go on with an infinity of terms, ..."
3. The United States Democratic Review by Conrad Swackhamer (1850)
"... and lath Dome, outpointing as man's bright Elysian! lie ask'd—they refused,
to go into the place. Swearing all " it won't stand winter weather. ..."
4. The Musical World (1878)
"No sooner do the first sounds stray Than uprise all the birds together outpointing
seawards bear away And vanish in the turbid weather. ..."
5. At the Sign of the Stock Yard Inn: The Same Being a True Account of how by Alvin Howard Sanders (1915)
"A very dynamo for energy, outpointing any Yankee in native shrewdness, learned
in the lore of northern cattle-breeding beyond all his contemporaries, ..."
6. Elements of English Grammar: With a Postscript, Analysis, and an Appendixby Jonathan Morgan by Jonathan Morgan (1814)
"... by a peculiar stress of voice, are equally capable of marking the movement,
and outpointing the regular pause of the voice, as the long syllables were, ..."
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