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by-way|ˈbaɪweɪ|
Forms: 4 biwei, 5 bye-waye, 6 bie-, by-waie, 9 bye-way, 5– by-way.
[f. by- 3 b + way.]
1. A way other than the highway; a side road; a secluded, private, obscure, or unfrequented way.
1330R. Brunne Chron. 10145 (Rolls Ser.) By a bywey [v.r. bigate] to Totenes lay, Cador & hyse toke þat way. c1425Wyntoun Cron. viii. xxxii. 65 Ðat kennyd þame a by way. 1596Spenser F.Q. i. i. 28 That path he kept, which beaten was most plaine, Ne ever would to any by-way bend. 1611Bible Judg. v. 6 In the dayes of Iael..the traueilers walked thorow by-wayes. 1708Motteux Rabelais v. xxvi. (1737) 114 Highways, Crossways, and Byways. 1860Adler Fauriel's Prov. Poetry xi. 239 Totally unacquainted with the by-ways of the forest.
2. transf. or fig.; often depreciatively.
1488Caxton Chast. Goddes Chyldr. 23 Suche a man cometh lightly in to a byewaye and for many errours he slideth ful folyly. 1535Coverdale Isa. lvii. 17 He turneth him self, and foloweth y⊇ bywaye of his owne hert. 1697Dryden Virg., Ess. Georg. (1721) I. 203 A Precept that enters it [the Understanding] as it were thro' a By-way. 1768–78Tucker Lt. Nat. II. 611 Children drawn into the world through this by-way are looked upon as a burden. 1846D. Jerrold Chron. Clovernook Wks. IV. 439 The by-ways and short-cuts to wealth. 1848A. Jameson Sacr. & Leg. Art (1850) 195 A friend, learned in all the byways..of Italian literature.
3. attrib.
1661Hickeringill Jamaica 84 Undisputed Titles need not..by-way stratagems to ensure their Negotiations. 1720Lond. Gaz. No. 5910/4 All Bye-Way and Cross-Road Letters are to be paid for.
4. advb. gen. (cf. crossways) or ? pl. cognate obj.: with quot. 1725 cf. by a. 1.
1549Latimer Serm. bef. Edw. VI, ii. (Arb.) 56 The Iewes..take vpon them to breke lawes and to go by wayes. a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. (1703) II. viii. 410 Marching by-ways..they likewise passed over the Thames. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 311 Carrying them by⁓ways and unfrequented. |