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out-ˈeat, v.
[out- 18, 15.]
1. trans. To surpass in eating, eat more than.
1530Palsgr. 650/2 My horse wyll outete such four jades as thyne is. a1613Overbury Characters, Button-maker of Amsterdam Wks. (1856) 126 He will be sure to bee a guest, and to out-eat six of the fattest Burgers. 1807W. H. Ireland Mod. Ships Fools 36 note, The reader must allow..that the natives of other countries may out-eat us.
†2. To eat out or away. ? Only in pa. pple.
c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. lxix. iv, With thy temples zeale out-eaten. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 185 Poore men are pitifully out-eaten by usurious contracts. 1665J. Webb Stone-Heng (1725) 12 Some Antique Inscription..whose Characters..were so corroded, and out-eaten by Time, that..Antiquaries..could not read it. |