outwell

See also: Outwell

English

Etymology

out- +‎ well

Verb

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

1. (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To well outward; to issue forth.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 9:

     […] 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:

   • 1591, Philip Sidney, “Somewhat to reade for them that list”, in Astrophel and Stella‎^[1], London: Thomas Newman:

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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “outwell”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)