Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

   {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.