1648 T. I. Perfect Narr. Proc. Army in Leymster 5 The governour therefore commanded the gunnes to be drawne without the out-line, and making use of the second out-line for a blinde at present, there were thence made five Shot at the round Terret.

1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur ii. 54 The shining Squadrons fly To th' Out-lines, and the Frontiers of the Sky.

1788 G. Washington Articles of Agreement 10 Dec. in Papers (1987) Presidential Ser. I. 172 He will be particularly attentive to the fences of the several Inclosures, especially those of the out-lines.

1735 H. Jacob Wks. 391 Carracio, esteem'd for Contours, or Out-Lines, at Bologna.

1756 G. Smith tr. Laboratory (new ed.) II. ii. 29 If your pattern is only an out-line it will be the better, and you'll finish your piece after it with more ease.

1868 Free-hand Drawing (Nimmo's Handy Bks.) 53 The outlines and finished views of these casts are given separately.

1915 C. P. Gilman Herland in Forerunner Apr. 99/2 I pointed to my outline of a cow..and sketched a milk pail.

1992 M. Margetts Classic Crafts 91/1 A loose outline can be drawn using Indian ink and a dip pen so as to preserve a springy life in the line.

1850 Phonography 1/2 It [sc. Phonography] is..as intelligible as speech itself;..and as used in verbatim reporting, a perfect and intelligible outline.

1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 839/2 By this method the number of possible readings of an unvocalized outline is greatly reduced.

1933 D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise i. 14 He..went on dictating and my hand was so shaky I could hardly make my outlines.

1973 E. M. Arlett So You want to be a Shorthand Typist ii. 18 The pen races smoothly over the pages, filling them with neat outlines that presently will be read back with practised ease.

1878 Specimens of Newspaper, Bk. & Ornamental Founts (Sir Charles Reed & Sons) Grotesque Outline... Clarendon Outline... English Black Outline.

1970 W. P. Jaspert et al. Encycl. Type Faces (ed. 4) 243 Zephyr... An accentuated outline titling, giving a somewhat three-dimensional effect.

1995 Desktop Publishers Jrnl. July 71/1 Type designers have been bemoaning the desktop publisher's ability to mangle type by scaling, skewing, and compressing it; using outline and shadow styles [etc.].

1890 Cent. Dict. 4185/2 Outline... In angling, a set-line.

1850 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art (new ed.) §74 Outline drawing and monochrome painting.

1991 New Scientist 24 Aug. 24/3 A standard technique called edge detection, which reduces the image to an outline drawing of the blood vessels.

1836 in N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 258 An Atlas of Outline Maps; intended for the use of Students in Geography.

1911 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 79/2 The outline maps of the arena are so manipulated that it seems to fly past you.

1982 P. Fitzgerald At Freddie's iv. 30 Hannah..gave out some outline maps..on which the children were to fill in the capitals of Europe.

1835 Knickerbocker 6 63 I present an outline sketch of one of that species of the genus homo..which Custom has christened with the expressive appellation of Loafer!

1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times vi. 188 The facts already ascertained..supply us with the elements of an outline sketch.

1992 Artist's & Illustrator's Mag. May 20 Once I am happy with the outline sketch, I then roughly shade and mark out wrinkles.

1850 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 140 169 Outline plan carefully constructed from the heart of an embryo, measuring 5 inches from the vertex to the coccyx.

1972 Guardian 5 Aug. 11/2 Westminster City Council are sitting on outline plans to knock down..a tenement of 89 flats.

1986 I. F. Roberts & L. M. Cantor Further Educ. Today 156 The decision to establish institutes of higher education..did not materialize wholly in the form proposed in the outline plan.

1973 Guardian 25 Apr. 8/7 A meeting has been called..to protest against an outline planning application..for underground mining in the parish.

1992 Oxfordshire Bull. Nov. 9/3 An outline planning application has now been submitted for the construction of a Nursing Home.

1968 Act 16 & 17 Eliz. II c. 72 §66 ‘Outline planning permission’ means planning permission granted, in accordance with the provisions of a development order, with the reservation for subsequent approval by the local planning authority or the Minister of matters..not particularised in the application.

1992 A. Taylor Raven on Water 38 I've got outline planning permission for a shopping complex with secondary access..via that bit of wasteland by your house.

1885 Weldon's Pract. Needlework II. 7/1 Crewel or Stem Stitch, also called Outline Stitch, is the chief and most-used stitch for crewel work.

1908 M. E. Morgan How to dress Doll iii. 34 Fill in with the chain or outline stitch and work with the embroidery buttonhole stitch.

1993 Daily Oklahoman (Nexis) 16 May 4 Since they didn't know how to embroider, the first thing I did was teach them the outline stitch.

1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic Hist. Introd. vii. 45 The early progress of the religious reformation..will be outlined in a separate chapter.

1880 Daily News 18 Dec. The scheme outlined in Mr. Bright's speech.

1922 Q. Rev. Jan. 125 King Charles has made his second attempt to ascend the Hungarian Throne. In the circumstances out-lined above it was doomed to failure.

1989 Japan Times 15 May 3/3 He outlined a new U.S. attitude toward relations with the Soviet Union.

1798 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 26 249 Accompanied with outlined engravings of their leading works.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxxi. 273 An outlined ridge of doubtful mountain land.

1991 Artist Nov. 26/3 These outlined areas were then hatched into quite crudely with the same selection of colours.

1795 J. Farington Diary 4 June (1978) II. 349 Smirke thinks it a good scheme, to paint upon some of my drawings begun on paper, by which I shall save the troubling of outlining.

1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. 94 Faint outlinings, of curved form, on a sandstone layer, like the outline left by a wave along the limit where it dies out upon a beach.

1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. xxiii. 355 Careful outlining of the upper and lower boundaries [of the area] may discover a limited and dome-like increase in one direction.

1992 Stars Mag. 8 Nov. 12/2 Bennett's ‘Cape Pines’ has a Van Gogh-like intensity, with its dynamic brushwork and purple outlining.