outwell

See also: Outwell

English

Etymology

From 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 […]

References

• “outwell”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.