Outsider: Definition and part of speech

Outsider

  1. n. A horse which is not a favorite in the betting.
  2. n. One not belonging to the concern, institution, party, etc., spoken of; one disconnected in interest or feeling.
  3. n. A locksmith’s pinchers for grasping the point of a key in the keyhole, to open a door from the outside when the key is inside.

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.

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