† ˈoutway, n. Obs.
[out- 6.]
1. A way or passage leading out, an outlet.
| 1571 Golding Calvin on Ps. x. 9 Like as theeves beset y⊇ outwayes of villages. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Isl. iv. xxvii, In divers streets and out wayes multipli'd. 1644 Vicars God in Mount 147 To make good all the out-waies. |
2. A by-way lying off the main route.
| 1566 W. Adlington Apuleius 9 In greate feare, I rode through many outwaies and deserte places. 1597 Beard Theatre God's Judgem. (1612) 492 He betooke him to flight, and hid himselfe in an outway amongst thornes and bushes. |