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withoutside en · ADP

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) outside
    • We build our houses on the sand Comely withoutside and within; 20 But when the winds and rains begin To beat on them, they cannot stand; They perish, quickly overthrown, Loose from the very basement stone. 1830, Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems:
    • Soon after, a fire was made withoutside the cabin, in the open air, and a kettle hung over it to boil. 1912, Sir Harry Johnston, Pioneers in Canada:
    • At noon, he got withoutside of the reef by a second opening more to the north; for, having observed the latitude to be 22 deg. 17', his intention was to seek for the River of Jacob Remessens (near the North-west Cape); but the wind veering to north-east, he could no longer follow the direction of the coast. 1814, Matthew Flinders, A Voyage to Terra Australis: