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by-work|ˈbaɪwɜːk|
Also 9 bye-.
[f. by- 3 d, e, 4, 5 + work.]
1. Work done by the way, in intervals of leisure, as opposed to one's main business; = Gr. πάρεργον; also depreciatively, work done with ulterior or interested motives.
1587Golding De Mornay xvi. (1617) 281 Which of vs doth it [good] not as a by-worke for some other things sake. 1607T. Walkington Optic Glass 159 To make a by-worke a worke, is to make our worke a by-worke. 1647H. More Infinity of Worlds lvi, The appearance of the nightly starres Is but the by-work of each neighbour sun. 1710Norris Chr. Prud. viii. 385 To make Religion the great business and concern of their Lives, and not as most do a By-work. 1873H. Rogers Orig. Bible ii. 82 Which are but the bye-work of her beneficence. 1885G. Allen Darwin 128 The by-work with which he filled up one of the intervals between his greater and more comprehensive treatises.
2. An accessory and subsidiary work. ? Obs.
1587Golding De Mornay xi. 154 Nailes, pinnes, Riuets, Buttons & such, I haue thought them to be but byworkes. 1601Holland Pliny II. 550 He deuised another by-worke to expresse the same.
†3. A work done awry or amiss. Obs.
1615Crooke Body of Man 271 Wherefore Aristotle thinketh..that the female is a bye worke or preuarication, yea the first monster in Nature. |