outer

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

outer
    adj 1: being on the outside or further from a center; "spent
           hours adorning the outer man"; "the outer suburbs" [ant:
           {inner(a)}]
    2: located outside; "outer reality"
    3: being on or toward the outside of the body; "the outer ear"

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Outer \Out"er\ (out"[~e]r), a. [Compar. of {Out}.] [AS. [=u]tor,
   compar. of [=u]t, adv., out. See {Out}, {Utter}, a.]
   Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the
   interior, from a given station, or from any space or position
   regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to
   {inner}; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the
   outer stump in cricket; the outer world.
   [1913 Webster]

   {Outer bar}, in England, the body of junior (or utter)
      barristers; -- so called because in court they occupy a
      place beyond the space reserved for Queen's counsel.
      [1913 Webster]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Outer \Out"er\, n.
   (a) The part of a target which is beyond the circles
       surrounding the bull's-eye.
   (b) A shot which strikes the outer of a target.
       [1913 Webster]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Outer \Out"er\, n. [From {Out}, v.]
   One who puts out, ousts, or expels; also, an ouster;
   dispossession. [R.]
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

23 Moby Thesaurus words for "outer":
      apparent, cortical, epidermic, exomorphic, exterior, external,
      extrinsic, fringe, open, out, outermost, outlying, outmost,
      outside, outstanding, outward, outward-facing, peripheral, public,
      roundabout, seeming, superficial, surface