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(Thareout,) Thairout, adv. Also: tharout, -owte, thairowt, therout(e, theirout. [ME and e.m.E. ðer ut (c1175), þer vte (Layamon), þer oute, þar out(e, þar vte (all Cursor M.), tharoute (1483), there-out (c1489).]

1. Outside or outwith that place, out there; out of doors, in the open. 1375 Barb. x 387.
Thai on rawnge in ane route gan ga On handis and fete … Rycht as thai ky or oxin wer That war wont to be bondyn left tharout [C. ther out] a1400 Leg. S. xxxvi 49.
The puple bydande ȝet ther-oute [sc. outside the temple] ?1438 Alex. ii 418.
Emynedus and all the laif Baid thairout … The dur he opned and in he gais ?1438 Alex. ii 7989.
I rede, and geuis counsale, That we thair-out ly all this nycht a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 38.
I mend the fyre and beikit me about, Than tuik ane drink … And armit me weill fra the cauld thairout a1500 Seven S. 1128.
Quhat devill is it makis that dyn thair owt c1520-c1535 Nisbet Luke viii 20.
Thi modere and thi brether standis tharout, willand to se thee 1535 Stewart 51516.
That men sould leve thairout baith da and nycht Thair plew yrnis a1540 Freiris Berw. 232 (M).
Sche … leit him knok thairout his fill a1570-86 Maitl. F. 245/17.
Quhen scho is in I am thairout 1572 Sat. P. xxxiii 300.
Thir four socht ludgeing all the towne about. … Lang time thay lay thairout 1629 Dundonald Par. Rec. 272.
William Bowie … delated to haue bene founde lying drunke thairout in the open feildis

2. From or out of that place, circumstance, etc. viewed as a source. Also as thairoutof.(1) a1400 Leg. S. i 391.
The fals fend in his liknese Vith the pupill wald spek tharowte 1533 Gau 4/17.
I traistit mekil of siclik orisons be for in my ald blindnes, bot blissit be God quhilk hes helpit me thair owt be the licht of his halie vord 1574 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. I 290.
The said day compeirit personaly in jugement Issobell Murray … spous to Williame Bruce … and thairout of the presens of hir said spous renuncit … all actis 1596 Dalr. I 33/12.
The Mule of Kaintyr … sik a nuik or elbok of land, quhair is committed lyke a battel amang the surges of the maine sey, fleiting and flowing thairout 1586 Montrose Baillie Ct. 7b (12 Oct.).
For brakin of his lok of his corne dur intending to haue brokin the saim and stollin sum geir thairout(2) 1571 Ferg. Serm. iii Malachi Sig. C iib.
Our ȝouth also aucht to be nurischit and mantenit at the schuilis, that thairoutof efterward micht spring preicheris, counsellouris, phisiciounis and all vther kyndes of leirnit men 1571 Ferg. Serm. iii Malachi Sig. D iib.
He promysis to oppin the windowis of hevin vnto them … signifying, that he will caus all thingis that thay haue neid of thairoutof to flow vnto thame in all aboundance 1628 Sutherland Bk. II 147.
They red to Edinburgh agetward thair out off this towne

3. In existence, around. a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 563.
Thair is richt few thairout Quhome ȝe may traist to haue trew lufe agane 1560 Rolland Seven S. 5963.
He war the clenest man thairout a1568 Scott xxxiv 25.
The wysest woman thairout

4. ? Completely, totally. 1546 Sources and Lit. Sc. Law 299.
[William, son of John Asloane] tuik upone him … that William Makmorane … was theirout innosent and saikles of art and part of Pate Scuittis corne and claithis