Part 1513

<hw>Bye</hw> <tt>(?)</tt> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS.<ets>b</ets><?/; cf. Icel. <ets>byg</ets><?/ dwelling, <ets>byggia</ets>, <ets>b<?/a</ets>, to dwell &root;97.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A dwelling.</def>

<i>Gibson.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>In certain games, a station or place of an individual player.</def>

<i>Emerson.</i>

<h1>By-election</h1> <Xpage=198>

<hw>By"-e*lec"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>An election held by itself, not at the time of a general election.</def>

<h1>By-end</h1> <Xpage=198>

<hw>By"-end`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Private end or interest; secret purpose; selfish advantage.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>bye-end</asp>.]</altsp>

<blockquote>"Profit or some other <b>by-end</b>." <i>L'Estrange.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Bygone</h1> <Xpage=198>

<hw>By"gone`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Past; gone by.</def>

"<i>Bygone</i> fooleries." <i>Shak</i>

<h1>Bygone</h1> <Xpage=198>

<hw>By"gone`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Something gone by or past; a past event.</def>

"Let old <b>bygones</b> be" <i>Tennyson.</i>

<cs><col>Let bygones be bygones</col>, <cd>let the past be forgotten.</cd></cs>

<h1>By-interest</h1> <Xpage=198>

<hw>By"-in`ter*est</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Self-interest; private advantage.</def>

<i>Atterbury.</i>

<h1>Byland</h1> <Xpage=198>

<hw>By"land</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A peninsula.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Bylander</h1> <Xpage=198>

<hw>By"land*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Bilander</er>.</def><mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>^^By-lane</h1> <Xpage=198>

<hw>^^By"-lane`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A private lane, or one opening out of the usual road.</def>

<h1>By-law</h1> <Xpage=198>

<hw>By"-law`</hw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf.Sw.<ets>bylag</ets>, D.<ets>bylov</ets>, Icel.<ets>b<?/arl\'94g</ets>, fr.Sw.& Dan. <ets>by</ets> town, Icel. <ets>b\'91r</ets>, <ets>byr</ets> (fr. <ets>b\'96a</ets> to dwell) + the word for <ets>law</ets>; hence, a law for one town, a special law. Cf.<er>Birlaw</er> and see <er>Law</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A local or subordinate law; a private law or regulation made by a corporation for its own government.</def>