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An animal that breaks away from a herd.

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

A cake or sweetmeat containing caraway seeds. Caraways, or biscuits, or some other [comfits]. Cogan.

A border of greensward left round the margin of a plowed field. Ray.

See Caraway.

A way or road for carts.

A form of cash carrier in which a small carrier or car travels upon a kind of track.

One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked.

A way or road rasid above the natural level of the ground, serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground. But that broad causeway will direct your way. Dryden. The other way Satan went down The causey to Hell-gate. Milton.

Having a raised way (causeway or causey); paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.

ormerly inhabiting the northern and weastern shores of Lake Superior; -- called also Objibways.

By way of, or along, the coast.

A system of electric traction, esp. for light railways, in which the actuating current passes along a wire or rail laid in an underground conduit, from which the current is "picked up" by a plow or other device fixed to the car or electric locomotive. Hence Conduit railway.

A swaying in a contrary direction; an opposing influence. [Obs.] A countersway of restraint, curbing their wild exorbitance. Milton.

See Crossroad.

Having a part cut off or away; having the corners rounded or cut away. Cutaway coat, a coat whose skirts are cut away in front so as not to meet at the bottom.

The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.

A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle. Cowell. Burrill.

A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.

A way or road dug through a hill, or sunk below the surface of the land. [U.S.]