Saxon out, as Utoxeter, in Staffordshire; Utrecht, in Holland; “outer camp town”; the “out passage,” so calledby Clotaire because it was the grand passage over or out of the Rhine before that river changed itsbed. Utmost is out or outer-most. (SeeUtgard.)
“Strainat [ut. “out”] a gnat, and swallow a camel.”—Matt. xxiii. 24.