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† ˈhang-by Obs. exc. dial.
(hing-by).
[f. hang- vb.-stem + by adv. and prep.]
1. A contemptuous term for a dependant or hanger-on.
1579Gosson Sch. Abuse (Arb.) 40, I meane those hange-byes whome they succour with stipend. 1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. v. iii, Enter none but the Ladies, and their Hangbies. 1655Fuller Hist. Camb. 9 To condemn the whole University for a hand-full of Hang-byes, such as never were matriculated members therein. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., A Hing-by, an adherent, a dependent, a flatterer.
2. An appendage, an adjunct.
c1585R. Browne Answ. Cartwright 35 Why then will he haue the Lordes discipline..to be but an accident or hangby to the Church? 1620Thomas Lat. Dict., Appendix..a pent-house..a processe, a hangby, a labell. 1661K. W. Conf. Charac., Old Hording Hagg (1860) 89 Her hands are the clumsie hangbyes of her body.
3. attrib.
1641R. Brooke Eng. Episc. i. i. 3 Creatures, and hang-by Dependants. |