▪ I. outlay, n.
(ˈaʊtleɪ)
[out- 7.]
I. 1. The act or fact of laying out or expending; expenditure (of money upon something).
Orig. a Sc. and dial. word; still considered dialectal by Forby 1825; given in Webster 1828.
| 1798 Statist. Acc. Scot., Perthshire XX. 437 It is one which accumulates yearly in value, without an yearly out⁓lay of expence. 1816 Scott Antiq. xiii, Sir Arthur himself made great outlay. 1825 Brockett N.C. Gloss., Outlay, expenditure. 1825–30 Forby's Voc. E. Anglia s.v., I made a great outlay before I brought my farm into profit. (Lowland Scotch, Brockett's Gloss.). 1828 Webster. Outlay, a laying out or expending, expenditure. 1832 H. Martineau Hill & Valley iv. 61 Observing what comes of such an out⁓lay of capital. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. xix. IV. 319 The income of the state still fell short of the outlay by about a million. 1879 Rogers in Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 67/2 After the first outlay, the demand of the public finds the means for paying the wages. |
II. 2. In various obs. or dial. senses. † a. ? An outlying thing. Sc. Obs. † b. A place of lying out; an outlying or out-of-the-way lair: see lay n.7 2. c. Coal-mining. ‘The height to which the top of a winning pit is raised above the surface of the ground: commonly called the outset’ (Heslop Northumb. Gloss.).
| 1563 Winȝet Wks. (1890) II. 61 Quhat is prophane? Quhilk hes na halines, na godlines, strange and plane out⁓lay fra the inwart chalmer of the Kirk, quhilk is the temple of God. 1611 Beaum. & Fl. Philaster ii. iv, I know her and her haunts, Her layes, leaps, and out layes. 1881 Borings 79 (in Heslop) Outlay from the swarth five feet, metal from the swarth four feet. |
▪ II. outlay, v.
(aʊtˈleɪ)
[out- 15.]
1. trans. To lay out; to spread out, expose, display. Now rare or poetic.
| 1555 W. Watreman Fardle Facions ii. viii. 181 No heare died, no lockes outelaied, no face painted. 1573 Killigrew Let. to Burghley 17 May in Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) III. 360, I trust..that after the battery shall be outlaid..the matter will be at a point. 1622 Drayton Poly-olb. xxvii. 133 Where Pellin's mighty Mosse, and Mertons, on her sides Their boggy breasts out lay. 1820 Byron Morg. Mag. i. xxxiv, Thou thought'st me doubtless for the bier outlaid. |
† 2. To set forth. Obs.
| 1567 Drant Horace, Ep. ii. i. G iv, Their pendaunte lockes encompasde rounde, and verses they outlay [Horace Epist. ii. i. 110 Carmina dictant]. |
3. To lay out (money), expend; make outlay of.
| 1802 Findlater Agric. Surv. Peebles 38 The proprietor pays all the outlayed money for materials and wages of workmen. 1814 Scott Wav. vi, The expenditure which he had outlayed. 1862 Channing in Salt Thoreau (1890) 258 No labor was too onerous, no material too costly, if outlaid on the right enterprise. 1886 Sat. Rev. 19 June 839 Money which might be more profitably outlaid. |