Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Utter \Ut"ter\, a. [OE. utter, originally the same word as
   outer. See {Out}, and cf. {Outer}, {Utmost}.]
   1. Outer. ``Thine utter eyen.'' --Chaucer. [Obs.] ``By him a
      shirt and utter mantle laid.'' --Chapman.

            As doth an hidden moth The inner garment fret, not
            th' utter touch.                      --Spenser.

   2. Situated on the outside, or extreme limit; remote from the
      center; outer. [Obs.]

            Through utter and through middle darkness borne.
                                                  --Milton.

            The very utter part pf Saint Adelmes point is five
            miles from Sandwich.                  --Holinshed.

   3. Complete; perfect; total; entire; absolute; as, utter
      ruin; utter darkness.

            They . . . are utter strangers to all those anxious
            thoughts which disquiet mankind.      --Atterbury.

   4. Peremptory; unconditional; unqualified; final; as, an
      utter refusal or denial. --Clarendon.

   {Utter bar} (Law), the whole body of junior barristers. See
      {Outer bar}, under 1st {Outer}. [Eng.]

   {Utter barrister} (Law), one recently admitted as barrister,
      who is accustomed to plead without, or outside, the bar,
      as distinguished from the benchers, who are sometimes
      permitted to plead within the bar. [Eng.] --Cowell.