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noun

Outsider n.

One not belonging to the concern, institution, party, etc., spoken of; one disconnected in interest or feeling. (Recent)

A locksmith's pinchers for grasping the point of a key in the keyhole, to open a door from the outside when the key is inside.

A horse which is not a favorite in the betting. (Cant)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Outsider" Quotes from Famous Books

... thinks some girl who reads these words, "you were an outsider, poor and without friends, yet you got ...

— Stage Confidences • Clara Morris

... depravity, she began to sob. Jed tried to comfort her and succeeded, after a fashion, at least she stopped crying, although she was silent most of the way home. And Jed himself was silent also. He shared her feeling of guilt. He felt that he had been told something which neither he nor any outsider should have heard, and his sensitive spirit found little consolation in the fact that the hearing of it had come through no fault of his. Besides, he was not so sure that he had been faultless. He had permitted the child's disclosures ...

— Shavings • Joseph C. Lincoln

... between the seeker after God and his goal. Mithras himself saw a Mesites, a Mediator, between Ormuzd and Ahriman, but the ordinary mediator is more like an interpreter or an adept with inner knowledge which he reveals to the outsider. The circumstances out of which these systems grew have left their mark on the new gods themselves. As usual, the social structure of the worshippers is reflected in their objects of worship. When the Chaldaeans came to Cos, when the Thracians in the Piraeus ...

— Five Stages of Greek Religion • Gilbert Murray

... testily. "I said no such thing, sir. I simply said he did not belong to this town. But you must agree with me, it's a precious strange thing that we men of this place have for years been searching the country round here for gold, and, by Jupiter! a stranger, an outsider, a mere interloper, a miserable 'hatter' from God knows where, discovers gold two days' journey from the town, and brings in over eighty ounces?" The old man's voice ran up to a falsetto, he stroked his ...

— The Tale of Timber Town • Alfred Grace

... present, would hardly have been justified in entering a personal protest. A statesman of the higher type, I was made to feel, should deal not with personalities, but with things, and it would be altogether unbecoming to complain of a colleague in presence of an outsider. Thus his attitude towards his opponent was most correct, but it was not difficult to infer that he had little sympathy with the policy of ...

— Russia • Donald Mackenzie Wallace

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