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thereout

adverb

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Pronunciation: /ðɛəɹˈaʊt/

adv

Etymology: From Middle English ther-oute, þer-out, þar-out, þeroute, from Old English þǣrūt and þǣrūte, equivalent to there + out. Compare Saterland Frisian deeruut, Dutch daaruit, German Low German daarut, German daraus.

  1. Out of it, out from it.

    Claius presently went to a Fisherman, & having agreed with him, and provided some apparrell for the naked stranger, he imbarked, and the Shepheards with him: and were no sooner gone beyond the mouth of the haven, but that some way into the sea they might discerne (as it were) a stayne of the waters colour, and by times some sparkes and smoke mounting thereout.

    Thereout a strange beast with seven heads arose, / That townes and castles under her brest did coure.

  2. outside; outdoors