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go out 
1 of ice, break up in the spring and move with the current until melted.
- 1743 (1949) I have Known the Ice when going out of the Rivers, to appear Like a wood or grove of trees with the perdigious Quantity of wood, which has been brought of the shores by the water and Ice, when these floods has happn'd.
- 1904 It [the river ice] appeared placid . . . but the woodsman's practised eye perceived that it might break up, or "go out," at any moment.
- 1963 I met Kenai Creek, its ice covered with muddy water and odd flotsam, flowing upstream against itself, and in the distance was a muttering as if of thunder--The Sikanni Chief [River] had "gone out."
2 leave the North to visit or return to more settled areas.
See also: go outside
- 1909 The older man had been in the North for years and was "going out."
- 1948 They [H.B.C. officers and men] thought and wrote much of promotion ("getting the parchment") and of "going out" for their furloughs.
- 1963 . . . I asked him why he was going out.
- 1743 (1949) I have Known the Ice when going out of the Rivers, to appear Like a wood or grove of trees with the perdigious Quantity of wood, which has been brought of the shores by the water and Ice, when these floods has happn'd.