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ˈout-guard
[out- 1, 3.]
A guard placed at a distance outside the main body of an army, an advanced guard, an outpost; also fig. and attrib.
1623Bingham Xenophon 30 They, after they came to our out-guards, asked for the Coronels. a1671Fairfax Mem. (1699) 66. 1675 Lond. Gaz. 1012/3 The outguards of our left Wing, beat the French outguards, and brought in several Prisoners. 1679Bedloe Popish Plot 26 Law being the best humane out-guard to Religion. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 153 Which makes the Mouth of the Bay to be reckoned from the Head-lands or Out-guards, some Three Leagues over. 1710Addison Whig Exam. No. 4 ⁋11 Holland is our Bulwark, or as Mr. Waller expresses it, our outgard on the Continent. 1743Lond. & Country Brewer ii. (ed. 2) 95 This [Dugdale] Wheat will best grow,..nor will it be damaged by Blights and Wets, when others are, by Reason of its great Out-guards, its Beards. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xv. xiii. (1872) VI. 105 The enemy..had no out⁓guard there, never expecting us on that side. |