By-place By"-place` noun A retired or private place.

By-product By"-prod`uct noun A secondary or additional product; something produced, as in the course of a manufacture, in addition to the principal product.

By-respect By"-re·spect` (bī"re*spĕkt`) noun Private end or view; by-interest. [ Obsolete] Dryden.

By-room By"-room` noun A private room or apartment. "Stand in some by-room " Shak.

By-speech By"-speech` noun An incidental or casual speech, not directly relating to the point. "To quote by- speeches ." Hooker.

By-spell By"-spell` noun [ Anglo-Saxon bigspell .] A proverb. [ Obsolete]

By-street By"-street` noun A separate, private, or obscure street; an out of the way or cross street.

He seeks by-streets , and saves the expensive coach.
Gay.

By-stroke By"-stroke` noun An accidental or a slyly given stroke.

By-turning By"-turn`ing noun An obscure road; a way turning from the main road. Sir P. Sidney.

By-view By"-view` noun A private or selfish view; self-interested aim or purpose.

No by-views of his own shall mislead him.
Atterbury.

By-walk By"-walk` noun A secluded or private walk.

He moves afterward in by-walks .
Dryden.

By-wash By"-wash` noun The outlet from a dam or reservoir; also, a cut to divert the flow of water.

By-wipe By"-wipe` noun A secret or side stroke, as of raillery or sarcasm. Milton.

Byard By"ard noun A piece of leather crossing the breast, used by the men who drag sledges in coal mines.

Bye Bye (bī) noun 1. A thing not directly aimed at; something which is a secondary object of regard; an object by the way, etc.; as in on or upon the bye , i. e. , in passing; indirectly; by implication. [ Obsolete except in the phrase by the bye .]

The Synod of Dort condemneth upon the bye even the discipline of the Church of England.
Fuller.

2. (Cricket) A run made upon a missed ball; as, to steal a bye . T. Hughes.

By the bye , in passing; by way of digression; apropos to the matter in hand. [ Written also by the by .]

Bye Bye (bī) noun [ Anglo-Saxon bȳ ; confer Icelandic bygð dwelling, byggja , būa , to dwell √97.] 1. A dwelling. Gibson.

2. In certain games, a station or place of an individual player. Emerson.

Bye Bye noun 1. In various sports in which the contestants are drawn in pairs, the position or turn of one left with no opponent in consequence of an odd number being engaged; as, to draw a bye in a round of a tennis tournament.

2. (Golf) The hole or holes of a stipulated course remaining unplayed at the end of a match.

Bygone By"gone` (bī"gŏn`; 115) adjective Past; gone by. " Bygone fooleries." Shak.

Bygone By"gone` noun Something gone by or past; a past event. "Let old bygones be" Tennyson.

Let bygones be bygones , let the past be forgotten.

Byland By"land noun A peninsula. [ Obsolete]

Bylander By"land·er noun See Bilander . [ Obsolete]

Byname By"name` transitive verb To give a nickname to. Camden.

Bypath By"path` noun ; plural Bypaths A private path; an obscure way; indirect means.

God known, my son,
By what bypaths , and indirect crooked ways,
I met this crown.
Shak.

Byplay By"play noun Action carried on aside, and commonly in dumb show, while the main action proceeds.

Byre Byre noun [ Cf, Icelandic bür pantry, Swedish bur cage, Danish buur , English bower .] A cow house. [ N. of Eng. & Scot.]

Byroad By"road` noun A private or obscure road. "Through slippery byroads " Swift.

Byronic By"ron`ic adjective Pertaining to, or in the style of, Lord Byron.

With despair and Byronic misanthropy .
Thackeray

Bysmottered By·smot"ter·ed (bi*smŏt"tẽr*ĕd) p.a. [ See Besmut .] Bespotted with mud or dirt. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Byss Byss noun See Byssus , noun , 1.

Byssaceous Bys·sa"ceous adjective [ From Byssus .] (Botany) Byssuslike; consisting of fine fibers or threads, as some very delicate filamentous algæ.

Byssiferous Bys·sif"er·ous adjective [ Byssus + -ferous .] Bearing a byssus or tuft.

Byssin Bys"sin noun See Byssus , noun , 1.

Byssine Bys"sine adjective [ Latin byssinus made of byssus, Greek by`ssinos See Byssus .] Made of silk; having a silky or flaxlike appearance. Coles.

Byssoid Bys"soid adjective [ Byssus + - oid .] Byssaceous.

Byssolite Bys"so·lite noun [ Greek ... See flax + - lite .] (Min.) An olive-green fibrous variety of hornblende.

Byssus Bys"sus noun ; plural English Byssuses ; Latin Byssi . [ Latin byssus fine flax, fine linen or cotton, Greek by`ssos .]

1. A cloth of exceedingly fine texture, used by the ancients. It is disputed whether it was of cotton, linen, or silk. [ Written also byss and byssin .]

2. (Zoology) A tuft of long, tough filaments which are formed in a groove of the foot, and issue from between the valves of certain bivalve mollusks, as the Pinna and Mytilus , by which they attach themselves to rocks, etc.

3. (Botany) An obsolete name for certain fungi composed of slender threads.

4. Asbestus.

Bystander By"stand`er noun [ By + stander , equiv. to stander-by ; confer Anglo-Saxon big-standan to stand by or near.] One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting.

He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them.
Palfrey.

Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.

Byway By"way` noun A secluded, private, or obscure way; a path or road aside from the main one. " Take no byways. " Herbert.

Byword By"word` noun [ Anglo-Saxon bïword ; bï , English by + word .] 1. A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency.

I knew a wise man that had it for a byword .
Bacon.

2. The object of a contemptuous saying.

Thou makest us a byword among the heathen.
Ps. xliv. 14

Bywork By"work noun Work aside from regular work; subordinate or secondary business.

Byzant, Byzantine Byz"ant, Byz"an·tine (-ăn"tīn) noun [ Middle English besant , besaunt , French besant , from Late Latin Byzantius , Byzantinus , from Byzantium .] (Numis.) A gold coin, so called from being coined at Byzantium. See Bezant .

Byzantian By·zan"tian (bĭ*zăn"sh a n) adjective & noun See Byzantine .

Byzantine By·zan"tine (bĭ*zăn"tĭn) adjective Of or pertaining to Byzantium. -- noun A native or inhabitant of Byzantium, now Constantinople; sometimes, applied to an inhabitant of the modern city of Constantinople. [ Written also Bizantine .]

Byzantine church , the Eastern or Greek church, as distinguished from the Western or Roman or Latin church. See under Greek . -- Byzantine empire , the Eastern Roman or Greek empire from a.d. 364 or a.d. 395 to the capture of Constantinople by the Turks, a.d. 1453. -- Byzantine historians , historians and writers (Zonaras, Procopius, etc.) who lived in the Byzantine empire. P. Cyc. -- Byzantine style (Architecture) , a style of architecture developed in the Byzantine empire. Its leading forms are the round arch, the dome, the pillar, the circle, and the cross. The capitals of the pillars are of endless variety, and full of invention. The mosque of St. Sophia, Constantinople, and the church of St. Mark, Venice, are prominent examples of Byzantine architecture.

Bænomere Bæ"no·mere noun [ Greek bai`nein to walk + -mere .] (Zoology) One of the somites (arthromeres) that make up the thorax of Arthropods. Packard.

Bænopod Bæ"no·pod noun [ Greek bai`nein to walk + -pod .] (Zoology) One of the thoracic legs of Arthropods.

Bænosome Bæ"no·some noun [ Greek bai`nein to walk + -some body.] (Zoology) The thorax of Arthropods. Packard.

Bætulus Bæ"tu·lus noun ; plural Bætuli . [ Latin , from Greek bai`tylos a sacred meteorite.] (Antiq.) A meteorite, or similar rude stone artificially shaped, held sacred or worshiped as of divine origin.

All the evidence goes to prove that these menhirs are bætuli , i. e., traditional and elementary images of the deity.

I. Gonino (Perrot & Chipiez).

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