Outline

1. n. Fig.: A sketch of any scheme; a preliminary or general indication of a plan, system, course of thought, etc.; as, the outline of a speech.
2. n. The line which marks the outer limits of an object or figure; the exterior line or edge; contour.
3. n. In art: A line drawn by pencil, pen, graver, or the like, by which the boundary of a figure is indicated.
4. n. A sketch composed of such lines; the delineation of a figure without shading.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.