English

Adverb

thereout ‎(not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Out of it, out from it.
   • 1590, Philip Sidney, Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia:

     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.

   • 1895, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays, page 38:

     "Keep thy money, man, and gi's thy hand," says he, and they shake hands; but the old gamester gives the new hat to the shepherd, and, soon after, the half-sovereign to Willum, who thereout decorates his sweetheart with ribbons to his heart's content.

2. (obsolete) outside; outdoors

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

Synonyms

• (out from it): therefrom

Anagrams

• out there