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outface

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outface [′au̇t‚fās]
(geology)
dip slope


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At that period (so soon after the forty-five) there were many exiled gentlemen coming back at the peril of their lives, either to see their friends or to collect a little money; and as for the Highland chiefs that had been forfeited, it was a common matter of talk how their tenants would stint themselves to send them money, and their clansmen outface the soldiery to get it in, and run the gauntlet of our great navy to carry it across.
Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
To outface and down- talk a Calcutta-taught Bengali, a voluble Dacca drug-vendor, would be a good game.
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