out-lying

Synonyms for out-lying

adj unique; private

"outside certain limits," 1660s, from out + present participle of lie (v.2). Meaning "remote from the center" is first recorded 1680s.

Mass is said for the out-lying operatives in the Castle-chapel of Lichtenthurm.

You know Williams is out-lying upon the upper branches of the river?

She swung her lantern to show a front rank of old apple-trees reflected in still, out-lying waters beyond the half-drowned hedge.

Out-lying were the holdings of Gubbio and Cagli, the latter perhaps reaching to the recently acquired townships of Fossombrone.

The arrangement was made, and this little, out-lying colony had now been established an entire season.

I was on out-lying picket the night before, (Christmas night,) and a very curious way it was of passing it.

I should like to see —— of the —— on out-lying picket here; he would not find it quite so pleasant as Almack's.

Meantime the mob was making similar assaults on all the out-lying settlements.

Out-lying pheasants, rabbits in the clumps, red grouse on the heather—the old dog missed none of them.

The road from the beleaguered city to the out-lying village was a spectacle to make one moan.