Outline

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To draw the outline of.

II. Outline ·noun A sketch composed of such lines; the delineation of a figure without shading.

III. Outline ·vt Fig.: To sketch out or indicate as by an outline; as, to outline an argument or a campaign.

IV. Outline ·noun The line which marks the outer limits of an object or figure; the exterior line or edge; contour.

V. Outline ·noun In art: A line drawn by pencil, pen, graver, or the like, by which the boundary of a figure is indicated.

VI. Outline ·noun Fig.: A sketch of any scheme; a preliminary or general indication of a plan, system, course of thought, ·etc.; as, the outline of a speech.