outscout noun 2verb 2forms 3 noun2 •(no longer used) An advance scout.[They] lay covered by the underwood, and behind rocks and roots of trees, waiting in silent ambush for their pursuers, of whose approach they had always information from their out-scouts. — 1803 •(no longer used) A group of advance scouts; an advance scouting party.As soon as they approached near the Town, the two Indians which were in the Canoa with our five Men for the Out-scout, jumped over-board, and we lost them. — 1707 verb2 •To surpass in scouting, or reconnaissance.In the Matabele campaign he had out[-]scouted the savage scouts and found his pleasure in tracking them among their native mountains, […] — 1900 •(no longer used) To overpower by disdain; to outface.Steel your thoughts, sharp your resolue, imboldẽ your spirit, grasp your svvords; alarum mischief, & vvith an vndãted brovv, out scout the grim opposition of most menacing perill. — 1600 formsoutscouted · outscouting · outscouts
