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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[Cf. Sw.

utkasta

to cast out.]

Cast out; degraded.

“Outcast, rejected.”

Longfellow.

Noun.

One who is cast out or expelled; an exile; one driven from home, society, or country; hence, often, a degraded person; a vagabond.

The Lord . . . gathereth together the

outcasts

of Israel.

Ps. cxlvii. 2.

A quarrel; a contention.

[Scot.]

Jamieson.

pp.

or a. Cast out; thrown away; rejected as useless.

Noun.

One who is cast out or expelled; an exile; one driven from home or country. Is. 16.