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▪ I. outwear, n.|ˈaʊtweə(r)|
[f. out- 3 + wear n.]
Outer clothing (as opp. to underwear); = outerwear s.v. outer a. 3. Freq. attrib.
1966Olney Amsden & Sons Ltd. Price List 3 Outwear. For Outwear Ranges (Pyjamas, Shorts, Shirts Etc.,) Please ask Traveller for latest list. 1977South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) 22 July 13/2 (Advt.), Babies' outwear from Japan..$11.00–$56.00. 1980Daily Tel. 9 Apr. 2/1 A Debenhams spokesman said that the week had shown sales up by 30 per cent. with a big rise in outwear clothing. 1988Women's Wear Daily 5 July 10/1 Veteran wool coatmaker Martin Blank is out to make a name for himself in leather outwear.
▪ II. outwear, v.|aʊtˈwɛə(r)|
[out- 15, 15 b, 18.]
1. trans. To wear out, wear away; to wear down to nothing, or to an end; to consume by wearing.
a1541Wyatt Poet. Wks. (1861) 17 Though..Change hath outworn the favour that I had. 1596Spenser F.Q. iv. ii. 33 Wicked Time that..doth..workes of noblest wits to nought outweare. 1665J. Webb Stone-Heng (1725) 82 The Characters..were..wholly outworn by Time. 1711Let. to Sacheverell 13 Subjects are insulted, and their Patience outworn. 1851Mrs. Browning Casa Guidi Windows i. 76 The..clay From whence the Medicean stamp's outworn.
b. To exhaust in strength or endurance: chiefly in pa. pple. outworn = worn out, exhausted.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 690 He being outworne with travell and labour, died in peace. 1654G. Goddard in Introd. to Burton's Diary (1828) I. 20 As if he had served so long that he had been outworn. 1828Wordsw. Wishing-gate viii, Some, by ceaseless pains outworn, Here crave an easier lot. 1887Bowen Virg. æneid iii. 78 The crews outworn by the sea.
†c. intr. To become worn out or exhausted.
1614C. Brooke Ghost Rich. III Poems (1872) 86 Life (sencible of pleasure) now feeles paine, Earth must to earth; as Nature's course outweares.
2. trans. To wear out, spend, pass (time).
1590Spenser F.Q. iii. xii. 29 All that day she outwore in wandering And gazing on that Chambers ornament. 1603Dekker Grissil (Shaks. Soc.) 15 You and your son,..Shall live to outwear time in happiness. 1725Pope Odyss. v. 601 Here by the stream, if I the night out-wear. 1821Keats Isabella iii, And with sick longing all the night outwear To hear her morning-step upon the stair.
b. To do away with or get over (something) by process of time; to outlive, outgrow.
1592Nobody & Someb. in Simpson Sch. Shaks. (1878) I. 347 It joyes me that you have outworne your pride. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. ii. xxii. 144 The merits of Posterity have outworn the disgraces of their Ancestours. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 349 As soon as he hath outworn his Dose, he with most greedy haste returns to his Vomit before he comes to himself. 1830Tennyson Sonnet Poems 122 Could I outwear my present state of woe With one brief winter. 1900Westm. Gaz. 1 Aug. 2/1 He..may outwear those unattractive qualities of character.
†3. To hollow out or excavate (marks) by wearing away a surface. Obs.
1600Fairfax Tasso xx. cxxii, Her palfraies feete signes in the grasse outware.
4. To wear longer than, to outlast in wear.
1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Dec., Epil. 2 Loe I haue made a Calender for euery yeare, That steele in strength, and time in durance, shall outweare. 1684T. Burnet Th. Earth i. 180 Stone and iron would scarce out-wear them. 1893K. L. Bates Eng. Relig. Drama 88 Like teaspoons that have outworn their set. |