Note 90 — DISSERTATION IV.
Reading edition
Out was originally a verb. So in the first line of the celebrated Chevy Chace,
"The Persé owt of Northombarlande, And a vow to God made he," &c.
I have, in one or two instances, observed the use of it still among the lower classes of people, in this country; and I find outed in some good writers, as late as Charles I.