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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Lying or being at a distance from the central part, or the main body; being on, or beyond, the frontier; exterior; remote; detached.

, a.

Lying or being at a distance from the main body or design.

Being on the exterior or frontier.

outlying ‎(comparative more outlying, superlative most outlying)

Relatively remote from some central location.
The more outlying villages were never visited by their member of parliament.
Located outside of some boundary or limit.
When the map was redrawn after the war, our cousin found herself living in outlying territory.

relatively remote from some central location

Chinese:
Mandarin: 偏僻的 ‎(piān pì de), 边远的 ‎(biān yuǎn de), 远离城市的 ‎(yuǎn lí chéng shì de)

outlying ‎(plural outlyings)

A region relatively remote from a central location.
- 1975, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Environmental Pollution, Water Pollution Control Act of 1972: Effect on Small Communities
  The other areas and the outlyings will have to come in at a later date, although the council wrestles with that periodically. But the amount of money involved would be substantial.

“outlying” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
outlying in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913