Forth, either from a place, position, state, condition, or relation, or into a specified position, condition, existence, action, view, association, etc. — the original notion ‘forth’ or the resultant notion ‘in’ prevailing according to the context or to circumstances.From a source or receptacle: as, to draw out a dagger; to pour out wine; to squeeze out a drop.From confinement, concealment, obscurity, entanglement, etc.: as, to let out a secret; to bring out the meaning of a passage.From a proper or usual place, position, or connection: as, to cut out a line of verse; to put out of joint.From a number of objects; from among others, or from all the others, as by seeking, choosing, separating, omitting, etc.: as, to find out; to pick out; to leave out.From accustomed security to the field of combat, especially single combat: as, to call a man out to fight a duel.From any previous position, state, or condition.Into public view or notice; hence, in or into vogue, fashion, or circulation: as, the book came out last year.In or into social notice; in or into society.Into general knowledge or publicity: as, the story leaked out.In or into existence: as, the meanest man out.In or into a state of confusion, vexation, dispute, variance, or unfriendliness: as, he is out in his calculations; to fall out about trifies.From among the number of contestants; so as to be no longer in the game: as, B was put out in the third round.Forth as regards extension or protraction; in length or duration: as, to spread out a mat; to stretch out a hand.Forth; forward; away, as from a point of departure.Without; outside; forth or away from the place, house, or apartment; in the open air; out of doors: opposed to in or within: as, he went out at noon; to hang out a sign.Not in or within; absent: as, when the wine is in, the wit is out.No longer in the game in which one has duly had his turn; not now engaged in playing.Not in office or employment; unemployed; disengaged: as, a butler superannuated and out of service.Not in place; dislocated.Not in present or personal possession or use; let for hire, or placed at interest.At a loss (by a certain sum): as, he is out ten dollars.Not in practice; unskilful from want of practice.Not in vogue or fashion.At variance; at odds; unfriendly.Beyond fixed or regular limits.So as to be exposed or made bare, as by rents in one's clothing.In a state of disclosure; so as to be no longer concealed.In a state of advanced development; specifically, of plants, in foliage; in blossom; in bloom.Away from the mark: in error; wrong; out of line, time, key, and the like: as, he is quite out in his guess; the soprano is out with the other parts.In a state of confusion or perplexity; puzzled; at a loss.In a state of completion; over; at an end.In a state of exhaustion or extinction.Abroad; away.At large; on the march; afield, or in the field; on duty; on a hunting expedition; on the dueling ground: as, the militia were out in force; the bushwhackers are out; the hounds are out; he was out in 1745 (that is, with the Jacobites).Abroad; absent in foreign lands; beyond the sea.To others; to outside parties, as for use at interest, premium, commission, wages, etc.: as, to lend out money; to let out lodgings; to farm out a contract; to hire out by the day.To an end.To development, completion, consummation, or perfection; to a successful issue: as, to work out a plan: to spell out a message; to make out or puzzle out something obscure; to carve out a fortune; to eke out a livelihood; to deck out a room.To exhaustion, extinction, or conclusion; to the end; so as to finish or exhaust or be exhausted or consumed; so as to bring to naught or render useless: as, the supplies have given out; to wear out; to eat out (consume); to pump out a well, or bail out a boat; to put out one's eyes or a light.So as to free from obstruction, encumbrance, or refuse: as, to sweep out a room; to thresh out grain; to weed out a garden.Without stint or reserve; in an open and unreserved manner; fully; completely; thoroughly; outright; hence, plainly; clearly; loudly: as, to speak out; to read out the names; to call or cry out; to ring or sing out.Forth from. From within; from the bounds, precincts, possession, containing, holding, or grasp of: as, out of the door or window; out of his clutches; out of the darkness and silence.From an origin, source, or place of derivation or supply: as, out of evil good often comes.From, as a motive or reason; on account of: as, he did it out of kindness, pity, fear, etc.From among; from the midst of; by selection from.From; by means of; by.Forth from, so as to pass or reach beyond; beyond the lines, limits, scope, sphere, reach, or influence of: as, to be out of sight; out of hearing; out of date; time out of mind (that is, beyond the reach of memory).Without; bereft of.From the interior of; forth from.On the exterior of; outside of.Beyond; past.[The use of out as a preposition is obsolete or poetic. A prepositional use is generally secured by subjoining of, from, or some other preposition to the adverb out. As a preposition out is often pleonastically preceded by from, from out of being also used in place of from out.[In composition out has either its ordinary adverbial sense, as in outcast, outcome, outlook, etc., or a prepositional force, as in outdoors, or forms transitive verbs denoting a going beyond or surpassing of the object of the verb, in doing the act expressed by the word to which it is prefixed, as in outrun, outshine, outvenom, etc. In the last use especially out may be used with almost any noun or verb. Only a few, comparatively, of such compounds are entered below; and if of modern formation they are left without further etymological note.]Begone! away! See the verb.Draw, do, say, etc., at once.External; exterior: used in composition: as, which side — the outside or the inside?Outlying: used in composition: as, outpost, outhouse.Out of the way; remote; foreign.Unpaid: still due: as, “out charges,”n. One who is out; specifically, in politics, one out of office: opposed to an in: in this sense used chiefly in the plural.n. See ins and outs, under in, n.n. Leave to go out; an outing; a holiday ramble or excursion.To put out; expel; eject; oust.To sell; dispose of; got rid of.To display; publish; utter.To go or come out; begone; be off; be removed or disclosed.n. In printing, the omission by the type-setter of a word or of lines in the copy.