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(Outware,) Outwair, v. [Ware v.] tr. To spend out. — a1570-86 Arbuthnot Maitl. F. xxix. 54.
To get sum geir ȝit man I haue greit cair In vanitie syn I man it outwair Woun be ane wretche and in to waistrie spent