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outˈsteal, v.
[out- 14, 15.]
1. intr. To steal out, slip away furtively. (In ME. two words.)
c1250Gen. & Ex. 2882 Ðu art min ðral, ðat hidel-like min lond vt-stal. a1510Douglas K. Hart ii. 401 Strenth is away, outstolling [= outstolen] lyk ane theif.
2. trans. To steal away from (a person) secretly.
1672O. Heywood Diaries, etc. (1883) III. 197 She..charg'd him not to goe but he out-stole her, and went. 1877Browning Agamemnon 685 Either some one outstole us or out⁓prayed us—Some god—no man it was the tiller touching. |