Definition of "outscout" in Englisch

verb

1. (transitive) To surpass in scouting, or reconnaissance.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To overpower by disdain; to outface.

noun

1. (obsolete) An advance scout.

   • 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. (obsolete) A group of advance scouts; an advance scouting party.

   • 1744, Peter Wraxall, entry dated 17 May, 1744, in Charles Howard McIlwain (ed.), An Abridgment of the Indian Affairs, Harvard University Press, 1915, p. 232, […] they think it absolutely necessary that an outscout of 40 Men should be sent at the charge of the Province to the Carrying Place […] to observe the Motions of the Enemy […]
   • 1754, Conrad Weiser, journal entry dated 3 September, 1754, in The Life of (John) Conrad Weiser, Reading, PA: Daniel Miller, 1876, p. 350, […] Tanacharisson […] complained very much of the behavior of Colonel Washington to him […] saying that he took upon him to command the Indians as his slaves, and would have them every day upon the outscout and attack the enemy by themselves, and that he would by no means take advice from the Indians […]