On or as to the outside; outwardly; externally.Out of doors; outside, as of a room or a house.As regards external acts or the outer life; externally.Outside of; at or on the exterior or outside of; external to; out of: opposed to within: as, without the walls.Out of the limits, compass, range, reach, or powers of; beyond.Lacking; destitute of; exempt or free from; unconnected with; independent of: noting loss, absence, negation, privation, etc.: as, to be without money; to do without sleep; without possibility of error; without harm.In colloquial language the object is frequently omitted after this preposition, especially in such phrases as to do without, to go without: as, they can give me no assistance, so I must do without.Without is sometimes used to govern a substantive clause introduced by that, without that thus signifying unless, except; and then, the that being omitted, it obtains the value of a conjunction (like because, while, since, etc.) in the same sense; but it is now rarely, if ever, used thus by careful and correct speakers and writers.