outen

Out; out of; out from.

[…] so if any of you ginks are me frien's yeh better keep outen here so's yeh won't get hurted.

And there was silence again. Then: ‘And you sent that girl away, didn't you? With the money outen that box?’

Being from without; strange; foreign; peculiar.

an outen man

To put out; extinguish.

I shined the light directly in his eyes, temporarily blinding him, then outened it and ran through the tunnel in the dark as best I could, not knowing where I was going.

When Susan said good-night and they outened the lights and headed to their respective rooms, Lettie found her most treasured book of poems.