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   Odoacer
         n 1: Germanic barbarian leader who ended the Western Roman
               Empire in 476 and became the first barbarian ruler of Italy
               (434-493) [syn: {Odoacer}, {Odovacar}, {Odovakar}]

English Dictionary: outgrowth by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
outcrop
n
  1. the part of a rock formation that appears above the surface of the surrounding land
    Synonym(s): outcrop, outcropping, rock outcrop
v
  1. appear on the surface, come to the surface on the ground; "Big boulders outcropped"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
outcropping
n
  1. the part of a rock formation that appears above the surface of the surrounding land
    Synonym(s): outcrop, outcropping, rock outcrop
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
outcry
n
  1. a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition; "the speaker was interrupted by loud cries from the rear of the audience"
    Synonym(s): cry, outcry, call, yell, shout, vociferation
v
  1. shout louder than
    Synonym(s): outshout, outcry
  2. utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy; "`I won!' he exclaimed"; "`Help!' she cried"; "`I'm here,' the mother shouted when she saw her child looking lost"
    Synonym(s): exclaim, cry, cry out, outcry, call out, shout
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
outgoer
n
  1. someone who leaves one country to settle in another [syn: emigrant, emigre, emigree, outgoer]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
outgrow
v
  1. grow too large or too mature for; "I have outgrown these clothes"; "She outgrew her childish habits"
  2. grow faster than
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
outgrowth
n
  1. a natural consequence of development [syn: outgrowth, branch, offshoot, offset]
  2. the gradual beginning or coming forth; "figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece"
    Synonym(s): emergence, outgrowth, growth
  3. a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant; "a bony process"
    Synonym(s): process, outgrowth, appendage
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
outscore
v
  1. score more points than one's opponents [syn: outpoint, outscore]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
outskirt
n
  1. a part of the city far removed from the center; "they built a factory on the outskirts of the city"
    Synonym(s): outskirt, fringe
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
outskirts
n
  1. outlying areas (as of a city or town); "they lived on the outskirts of Houston"; "they mingled in the outskirts of the crowd"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
outsource
v
  1. obtain goods or services from an outside supplier; to contract work out; "Many companies outsource and hire consultants in order to maintain a flexible workforce"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Oat \Oat\ ([omac]t), n.; pl. {Oats} ([omac]ts). [OE. ote, ate,
      AS. [amac]ta, akin to Fries. oat. Of uncertain origin.]
      1. (Bot.) A well-known cereal grass ({Avena sativa}), and its
            edible grain; -- commonly used in the plural and in a
            collective sense.
  
      2. A musical pipe made of oat straw. [Obs.] --Milton.
  
      {Animated oats} or {Animal oats} (Bot.), A grass ({Avena
            sterilis}) much like oats, but with a long spirally
            twisted awn which coils and uncoils with changes of
            moisture, and thus gives the grains an apparently
            automatic motion.
  
      {Oat fowl} (Zo[94]l.), the snow bunting; -- so called from
            its feeding on oats. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {Oat grass} (Bot.), the name of several grasses more or less
            resembling oats, as {Danthonia spicata}, {D. sericea}, and
            {Arrhenatherum avenaceum}, all common in parts of the
            United States.
  
      {To feel one's oats}, to be conceited ro self-important.
            [Slang]
  
      {To sow one's wild oats}, to indulge in youthful dissipation.
            --Thackeray.
  
      {Wild oats} (Bot.), a grass ({Avena fatua}) much resembling
            oats, and by some persons supposed to be the original of
            cultivated oats.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Odograph \O"do*graph\, n. [Gr. [?] way + -graph.]
      1. A machine for registering the distance traversed by a
            vehicle or pedestrain.
  
      2. A device for recording the length and rapidity of stride
            and the number of steps taken by a walker.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Floriken \Flo"ri*ken\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      An Indian bustard ({Otis aurita}). The Bengal floriken is
      {Sypheotides Bengalensis}. [Written also {florikan},
      {florikin}, {florican}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shore \Shore\, n. [OE. schore, AS. score, probably fr. scieran,
      and so meaning properly, that which is shorn off, edge; akin
      to OD. schoore, schoor. See {Shear}, v. t.]
      The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an
      ocean, lake, or large river.
  
               Michael Cassio, Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello,
               Is come shore.                                       --Shak.
  
               The fruitful shore of muddy Nile.            --Spenser.
  
      {In shore}, near the shore. --Marryat.
  
      {On shore}. See under {On}.
  
      {Shore birds} (Zo[94]l.), a collective name for the various
            limicoline birds found on the seashore.
  
      {Shore crab} (Zo[94]l.), any crab found on the beaches, or
            between tides, especially any one of various species of
            grapsoid crabs, as {Heterograpsus nudus} of California.
  
      {Shore lark} (Zo[94]l.), a small American lark ({Otocoris
            alpestris}) found in winter, both on the seacoast and on
            the Western plains. Its upper parts are varied with dark
            brown and light brown. It has a yellow throat, yellow
            local streaks, a black crescent on its breast, a black
            streak below each eye, and two small black erectile ear
            tufts. Called also {horned lark}.
  
      {Shore plover} (Zo[94]l.), a large-billed Australian plover
            ({Esacus magnirostris}). It lives on the seashore, and
            feeds on crustaceans, etc.
  
      {Shore teetan} (Zo[94]l.), the rock pipit ({Anthus
            obscurus}). [Prov. Eng.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Otocrane \O"to*crane\, n. [Oto- + Gr. [?] skull.] (Anat.)
      The cavity in the skull in which the parts of the internal
      ear are lodged.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Otocranial \O`to*cra"ni*al\, a. (Anat.)
      Of or pertaining to the otocrane.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Otography \O*tog"ra*phy\, n. [Oto- + -graphy.]
      A description of the ear.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outcourt \Out"court`\, n.
      An outer or exterior court.
  
               The skirts and outcourts of heaven.         --South.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outcrafty \Out*craft"y\, v. t.
      To exceed in cunning. [R.] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outcrier \Out"cri`er\, n.
      One who cries out or proclaims; a herald or crier.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outcrop \Out"crop`\, n. (Geol.)
      (a) The coming out of a stratum to the surface of the ground.
            --Lyell.
      (b) That part of inclined strata which appears at the
            surface; basset.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outcrop \Out*crop"\, v. i. (Geol.)
      To come out to the surface of the ground; -- said of strata.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outcry \Out"cry`\, n.
      1. A vehement or loud cry; a cry of distress, alarm,
            opposition, or detestation; clamor.
  
      2. Sale at public auction. --Massinger. Thackeray.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outgoer \Out"go`er\, n.
      One who goes out or departs.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outgrow \Out*grow"\, v. t. [imp. {Outgrew}; p. p. {Outgrown}; p.
      pr. & vb. n. {Outgrowing}.]
      1. To surpass in growing; to grow more than. --Shak.
  
      2. To grow out of or away from; to grow too large, or too
            aged, for; as, to outgrow clothing; to outgrow usefulness;
            to outgrow an infirmity.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outground \Out"ground`\, n.
      Ground situated at a distance from the house; outlying land.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outgrow \Out*grow"\, v. t. [imp. {Outgrew}; p. p. {Outgrown}; p.
      pr. & vb. n. {Outgrowing}.]
      1. To surpass in growing; to grow more than. --Shak.
  
      2. To grow out of or away from; to grow too large, or too
            aged, for; as, to outgrow clothing; to outgrow usefulness;
            to outgrow an infirmity.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outgrow \Out*grow"\, v. t. [imp. {Outgrew}; p. p. {Outgrown}; p.
      pr. & vb. n. {Outgrowing}.]
      1. To surpass in growing; to grow more than. --Shak.
  
      2. To grow out of or away from; to grow too large, or too
            aged, for; as, to outgrow clothing; to outgrow usefulness;
            to outgrow an infirmity.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outgrow \Out*grow"\, v. t. [imp. {Outgrew}; p. p. {Outgrown}; p.
      pr. & vb. n. {Outgrowing}.]
      1. To surpass in growing; to grow more than. --Shak.
  
      2. To grow out of or away from; to grow too large, or too
            aged, for; as, to outgrow clothing; to outgrow usefulness;
            to outgrow an infirmity.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outgrowth \Out"growth`\, n.
      That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an
      excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outguard \Out"guard`\, n. (Mil.)
      A guard or small body of troops at a distance from the main
      body of an army, to watch for the approach of an enemy;
      hence, anything for defense placed at a distance from the
      thing to be defended.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outscorn \Out*scorn"\, v. t.
      To confront, or subdue, with greater scorn. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outscouring \Out"scour`ing\, n.
      That which is scoured out o[?] washed out. --Buckland.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outskirt \Out"skirt`\, n.
      A part remote from the center; outer edge; border; -- usually
      in the plural; as, the outskirts of a town. --Wordsworth.
  
               The outskirts of his march of mystery.   --Keble.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outsoar \Out*soar"\, v. t.
      To soar beyond or above.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outswear \Out*swear"\, v. t.
      To exceed in swearing.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Otis Orchards, WA
      Zip code(s): 99027

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Otis Orchards-East Farms, WA (CDP, FIPS 52267)
      Location: 47.70017 N, 117.09013 W
      Population (1990): 5811 (1833 housing units)
      Area: 18.2 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water)

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   outsourcing
  
      Paying another company to provide services which a
      company might otherwise have employed its own staff to
      perform, e.g. software development.
  
      (1995-03-28)
  
  
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