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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

OUTLY'ING, a.
1. Lying or being at a distance from the main body or design.
2. Being on the exterior or frontier.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: relatively far from a center or middle; "outlying settlements"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: circa 1690 remote from a center or main body <outlying areas>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. situated far from a centre; remote.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Outlying Out"ly`ing, a. Lying or being at a distance from the central part, or the main body; being on, or beyond, the frontier; exterior; remote; detached.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Outlying places are far away from the main cities of a country. Tourists can visit outlying areas like the Napa Valley Wine Country... = remote ADJ: ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Remote, distant. 2. Exterior, frontier, bounding.

Moby Thesaurus

apparent, cortical, distant, epidermic, exomorphic, exterior, external, extraneous, extraorganismal, extrinsic, far, far-flung, far-off, faraway, farthest, foreign, fringe, furthest, impersonal, nonsubjective, objective, open, out, out-of-the-way, outer, outermost, outmost, outside, outstanding, outward, outward-facing, peripheral, public, remote, removed, roundabout, seeming, superficial, surface