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A proverb. [Obs.]

A separate, private, or obscure street; an out of the way or cross street. He seeks by-streets, and saves the expensive coach. Gay.

An accidental or a slyly given stroke.

An obscure road; a way turning from the main road. Sir P. Sidney.

A private or selfish view; self-interested aim or purpose. No by-views of his own shall mislead him. Atterbury.

secluded or private walk. He moves afterward in by-walks. Dryden.

The outlet from a dam or reservoir; also, a cut to divert the flow of water.

A secret or side stroke, as of raillery or sarcasm. Milton.

A piece of leather crossing the breast, used by the men who drag sledges in coal mines.

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. [Obs. except in the phrase by the bye.] The Synod of Dort condemneth upon the bye even the discipline of the Church of England. Fuller.…

Past; gone by. "Bygone fooleries." Shak

A peninsula. [Obs.]

See Bilander.[Obs.]

To give a nickname to. Camden.

A private path; an obscure way; indirect means. God known, my son, By what bypaths, and indirect crooked ways, I met this crown. Shak.

Action carried on aside, and commonly in dumb show, while the main action proceeds.

A cow house. [N. of Eng.& Scot.]

A private or obscure road. "Through slippery byroads" Swift.

Pertaining to, or in the style of, Lord Byron. With despair and Byronic misanthropy. Thackeray

Bespotted with mud or dirt. [Obs.] Chaucer.