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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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