Outfit
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
1.
An allowance made by the United States government to one of its diplomatic representafives going abroad, for the expense of his equipment.
2.
This term, in its original use, as applying to ships, embraced those objects connected with a ship which were necessary for the sailing of her, and without which she would not in fact be vavigable. But in ships engaged in whaling voyages the word haa acquired a@ much more extended signification, 9 Mete. (Mass.) 364.