Definition of Outstaring

1. Verb. (present participle of outstare) ¹

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Definition of Outstaring

1. outstare [v] - See also: outstare

Lexicographical Neighbors of Outstaring

outsquawked
outsquawking
outsquawks
outstable
outstabled
outstables
outstabling
outstand
outstanding
outstandingly
outstands
outstank
outstare
outstared
outstares
outstaring
outstart
outstarted
outstarting
outstarts
outstate
outstated
outstates
outstating
outstation
outstations
outstay
outstay one's welcome
outstayed
outstaying

Literary usage of Outstaring

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1913)
"... have rivaled Fray Junípero himself in outstaring an ever-present death, and it was no lack of courage on his part but the fault of his horse that turned ..."

2. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"Where Shasta shapes its mighty cone, Where Mitchell heaves into the skies, Silent he glares, austere, alone, With sun-outstaring eyes. ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"... perhaps, grim with formidable cuts of men outstaring monsters—have all a deep delight in dragons ; which complex emotion, did we choose to philosophize, ..."

4. Poems by Anne Whitney, Henry Kirke White (1859)
"Those peaks, ghosts Outstaring Time, through darkness glimmering ! No rush of pinion there, nor bubbling low— But death, and silence past imagining ;— Only, ..."

5. Poems by Anne Whitney (1906)
"Those peaks, like ghosts Outstaring Time, through darkness glimmering! No rush of pinion there, nor bubbling low— But death, and silence past imagining;— ..."

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