Definition of Bynames

1. Noun. (plural of byname) ¹

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Definition of Bynames

1. byname [n] - See also: byname

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bynames

bylander
bylanders
bylands
bylane
bylanes
bylaw
bylaws
byline
bylined
byliner
byliners
bylines
bylining
bylive
byname
bynames (current term)
bynempt
byos
byotch
byotches
byoyomi

Literary usage of Bynames

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1882)
"But the practice of conferring bynames prevails more generally in the rural localities. Indeed, almost everything and everybody is made subject to custom in ..."

2. A Glossary of Words Pertaining to the Dialect of Mid-Yorshire: With Others by C. Clough Robinson (1876)
"bynames [baa-ni"h'ui/.], sb. pi. These, attaching to persons, are a feature of tho manufacturing district, and especially of the clothing-villages. ..."

3. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1883)
"Then we have Let us suppose that without in any particular altering either of the bynames a and ft we make a complete change of the six screws of reference. ..."

4. A Renaissance Courtesy-book: Galateo of Manners & Behaviours by Giovanni Della Casa, Robert Peterson, Joel Elias Spingarn (1914)
"... order their Of Man- tale, first with bynames, and then rehearse them ners and (as neede is) that be proper. For, the bynames Behav- alwayes beare the ..."

5. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1910)
"till you can do better, and you may perhaps find some "bynames' Hole" by which to get at the inside at last. England and France, Spain and Portugal, ..."

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