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Outing   /ˈaʊtɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Outing  n.  
1.
The act of going out; an airing; an excursion; as, a summer outing.
2.
A feast given by an apprentice when he is out of his time. (Prov. Eng.)





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"Outing" Quotes from Famous Books



... chosen president before that first meeting adjourned; no other officers were considered necessary at the time. And being president, to him was promptly delegated the honor—despite his vigorous protests—of arranging for their first outing and notifying the ...
— The S. W. F. Club • Caroline E. Jacobs
... Dinwiddie, veiling his hope that it was not. But the assent was general. They were all as excited over the prospect of a picnic as if they were slum children about to enjoy their first charitable outing, and it was settled that they were to start at ten o'clock. Mrs. Minor and Miss Gold went into the kitchen to help Mrs. Larsing make sandwiches and salads, and the others ran down ...
— Black Oxen • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
... upon Ganymede had donned their only suits of earthly clothing, instead of the makeshifts of mole-skin, canvas, and leather they had been wearing so long. Thorns and underbrush had pierced and torn their once natty outing costumes, and sparks and flying drops of molten metal from Stevens' first crude forges had burned ...
— Spacehounds of IPC • Edward Elmer Smith
... out of doors! She and her mother were sent out to drive, and the town was like the places she had read about in books or the higher grade monthly papers. Then Mrs. Dane, the housekeeper, returned and Miss Arran, who was a kind of secretary, took her outing. ...
— The Girls at Mount Morris • Amanda Minnie Douglas
... help ye see how far ye can throw th' bottle into th' river. Ye feel betther already. Ye ought to write to th' medical journals about th' case. It is a remarkable cure. 'M—— H—— was stricken with excruciating tortures in th' gastric regions followin' an unusually severe outing in th' counthry. F'r a time it looked as though it might be niciss'ry to saw out th' infected area, but as this wud lave an ugly space between legs an' chin, it was determined to apply Jam. Gin. VIII. Th' remedy acted instantly. ...
— Mr. Dooley Says • Finley Dunne


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