outerly

Outer; not internal.

Adjective

  1. Outer; not internal.
    • In a sand papering machine, the combinations with the holder and the bed supporting the material to be sand papered, of a holder for the sand paper, composed of a box or frame carrying inner and outerly plates and means...
    • This is because the copulative verb in Wordsworth is real verb^([sic]), from his own mind and feelings, and not merely the arranger of action of outerly characters or objects. - 1984, John Powell Ward, Wordsworth's...
    • Resolved, That permission be and hereby is granted to the Consumers' Ice Co. to use and to occupy, during the will of Board, the Pier at the foot of Horatio street, North river (except reservation for public bath at the...
  2. Moving toward the outside.
    • Ships that are bound to the northward may, with N.W. winds, anchor to the southward of Calk Skerry in 8 or 9 fathoms; but must be careful to avoid being caught there with outerly winds. - 1818, John William Norie, New...
    • In pursuance of your directions to report to you my observations on the effect of the Admiralty Pier in affording shelter in Dover Bay during the gale of this day, I beg leave to inform you, that on arriving from...
    • So when for the third time the boy had been tumbled upon the beach, John Mure bade Bannatyne bring his boat, saying that they would cast the loon afloat out in the deeps of the bay, so that the outerly wind might drive...

Origin

From outer + -ly.

Adverb

  1. Toward or on the outside; outwardly.
    • In the lower Jaw, two Tusks, one on each side, like those of a Boar, standing outerly, an inch behind the Cuters - 1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and...
    • If in an harmonic range one point halve innerly the tract between two conjugates, the other (its conjugate) must halve the same tract outerly, i.e., must be at ∞. - 1888, W. B. Smith, Elementary Co-ordinate Geometry,...
    • (c) means securing the resulting innerly disposed hollow member within the resulting outerly disposed hollow member in the above-indicated positional relationship thereto; - 1964, Harry W. Carpenter, “3146608: Cooling...

Forms

more outerly most outerly