outwell

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verb

To well outward; to issue forth.

OriginOld English ūt →
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Meanings

outwell1

verboutwell (third-person singular simple present outwells, present participle outwelling, simple past and past participle outwelled)

present singular third person outwells · participle present outwelling · participle past outwelled · past outwelled

  1. ambitransitivearchaicTo well outward; to issue forth.

    […] Religion that rebuketh prophane lamentation, drinkes in the riuers of those dispaireful teares, which languorous ruth hath outwelled […]

    1591, Philip Sidney, “Somewhat to reade for them that list”, in Astrophel and Stella, London: Thomas Newman
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    […] when old father Nilus gins to swell With timely pride aboue the Aegyptian vale, His fattie waues doe fertile slime outwell, And ouerflow each plaine and lowly dale:

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 9

Outwell2

proper noun
  1. A village and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF5103).

Origin

outwell · verb

From out- + well.

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Outwell · proper noun

  1. Old Englishūt“out, outer”
  2. EnglishOutwell

From Old English ūt (“out, outer”) + wella (“well, spring, stream”).

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Chicago

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