outscout

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An advance scout. obsolete
    — 1728, Daniel Defoe (attributed), The Memoirs of an English Officer, London: E. Symon, pp. 211-212, […] tho’ the Enemy took the Train I had laid, and on sight of our small Body on the Hill, sent a Party from their greater Body to intercept them, before they could reach the Town; yet the Sequel prov’d, we had mistaken their Number, and it soon appeared to be much greater than we at first imagin’d. However our Out-scouts, as I may call ’em, got safe into the House […]
  2. A group of advance scouts; an advance scouting party. obsolete
    — As soon as they approached near the Town, the two Indians which were in the Canoa with our five Men for the Out-scout, jumped over-board, and we lost them.
动词 v.
  1. To surpass in scouting, or reconnaissance. transitive
    — In the Matabele campaign he had out[-]scouted the savage scouts and found his pleasure in tracking them among their native mountains, […]
  2. To overpower by disdain; to outface. obsolete,transitive
    — Steel your thoughts, ſharp your reſolue, imboldẽ your spirit, graſp your ſvvords; alarum miſchief, & vvith an vndãted brovv, out ſcout the grim oppoſition of most menacing perill.

词形变化

outscouts present,singular,third-person outscouting participle,present outscouted participle,past outscouted past outscouts plural

词源

词源 1
From out- + scout.
词源 2
From out- + scout.
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