Buzzard (n.) A bird of prey of the Hawk family, belonging to the genus Buteo and related genera.
Buzzard (n.) A blockhead; a dunce.
Buzzard (a.) Senseless; stupid.
Buzzardet (n.) A hawk resembling the buzzard, but with legs relatively longer.
Buzzer (n.) One who, or that which, buzzes; a whisperer; a talebearer.
Buzzingly (adv.) In a buzzing manner; with a buzzing sound.
Buzzsaw () A circular saw; -- so called from the buzzing it makes when running at full speed.
By (pref.) In the neighborhood of; near or next to; not far from; close to; along with; as, come and sit by me.
By (pref.) On; along; in traversing. Compare 5.
By (pref.) Near to, while passing; hence, from one to the other side of; past; as, to go by a church.
By (pref.) Used in specifying adjacent dimensions; as, a cabin twenty feet by forty.
By (pref.) Against.
By (pref.) With, as means, way, process, etc.; through means of; with aid of; through; through the act or agency of; as, a city is destroyed by fire; profit is made by commerce; to take by force.
By (adv.) Near; in the neighborhood; present; as, there was no person by at the time.
By (adv.) Passing near; going past; past; beyond; as, the procession has gone by; a bird flew by.
By (adv.) Aside; as, to lay by; to put by.
By (a.) Out of the common path; aside; -- used in composition, giving the meaning of something aside, secondary, or incidental, or collateral matter, a thing private or avoiding notice; as, by-line, by-place, by-play, by-street. It was formerly more freely used in composition than it is now; as, by-business, by-concernment, by-design, by-interest, etc.
Byard (n.) A piece of leather crossing the breast, used by the men who drag sledges in coal mines.
By-bidder (n.) One who bids at an auction in behalf of the auctioneer or owner, for the purpose of running up the price of articles.
By-blow (n.) A side or incidental blow; an accidental blow.
By-blow (n.) An illegitimate child; a bastard.
By-corner (n.) A private corner.
By-dependence (n.) An appendage; that which depends on something else, or is distinct from the main dependence; an accessory.
By-drinking (n.) A drinking between meals.
Bye (n.) 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.
Bye (n.) A run made upon a missed ball; as, to steal a bye.
Bye (n.) A dwelling.
Bye (n.) In certain games, a station or place of an individual player.
By-election (n.) An election held by itself, not at the time of a general election.
By-end (n.) Private end or interest; secret purpose; selfish advantage.
Bygone (a.) Past; gone by.
Bygone (n.) Something gone by or past; a past event.
By-interest (n.) Self-interest; private advantage.
Byland (n.) A peninsula.
Bylander (n.) See Bilander.
By-lane (n.) A private lane, or one opening out of the usual road.
By-law (n.) A local or subordinate law; a private law or regulation made by a corporation for its own government.
By-law (n.) A law that is less important than a general law or constitutional provision, and subsidiary to it; a rule relating to a matter of detail; as, civic societies often adopt a constitution and by-laws for the government of their members. In this sense the word has probably been influenced by by, meaning secondary or aside.
By-name (n.) A nickname.
Byname (v. t.) To give a nickname to.
By-pass (n.) A by-passage, for a pipe, or other channel, to divert circulation from the usual course.
By-passage (n.) A passage different from the usual one; a byway.
By-past (a.) Past; gone by.
Bypaths (pl. ) of Bypath
Bypath (n.) A private path; an obscure way; indirect means.
By-place (n.) A retired or private place.
Byplay (n.) Action carried on aside, and commonly in dumb show, while the main action proceeds.
By-product (n.) A secondary or additional product; something produced, as in the course of a manufacture, in addition to the principal product.
Byre (n.) A cow house.
By-respect (n.) Private end or view; by-interest.
Byroad (n.) A private or obscure road.
Byronic (a.) Pertaining to, or in the style of, Lord Byron.
By-room (n.) A private room or apartment.
Bysmottered (p.a.) Bespotted with mud or dirt.
By-speech (n.) An incidental or casual speech, not directly relating to the point.
By-spell (n.) A proverb.
Byss (n.) See Byssus, n., 1.
Byssaceous (a.) Byssuslike; consisting of fine fibers or threads, as some very delicate filamentous algae.
Byssiferous (a.) Bearing a byssus or tuft.
Byssin (n.) See Byssus, n., 1.
Byssine (a.) Made of silk; having a silky or flaxlike appearance.
Byssoid (a.) Byssaceous.
Byssolite (n.) An olive-green fibrous variety of hornblende.
Byssuses (pl. ) of Byssus
Byssi (pl. ) of Byssus
Byssus (n.) A cloth of exceedingly fine texture, used by the ancients. It is disputed whether it was of cotton, linen, or silk.
Byssus (n.) A tuft of long, tough filaments which are formed in a groove of the foot, and issue from between the valves of certain bivalve mollusks, as the Pinna and Mytilus, by which they attach themselves to rocks, etc.
Byssus (n.) An obsolete name for certain fungi composed of slender threads.
Byssus (n.) Asbestus.
Bystander (n.) One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting.
By-street (n.) A separate, private, or obscure street; an out of the way or cross street.
By-stroke (n.) An accidental or a slyly given stroke.
By-turning (n.) An obscure road; a way turning from the main road.
By-view (n.) A private or selfish view; self-interested aim or purpose.
By-walk (n.) A secluded or private walk.
By-wash (n.) The outlet from a dam or reservoir; also, a cut to divert the flow of water.
Byway (n.) A secluded, private, or obscure way; a path or road aside from the main one.
By-wipe (n.) A secret or side stroke, as of raillery or sarcasm.
Byword (n.) A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency.
Byword (n.) The object of a contemptuous saying.
Bywork (n.) Work aside from regular work; subordinate or secondary business.
Byzant (n.) Alt. of Byzantine
Byzantine (n.) A gold coin, so called from being coined at Byzantium. See Bezant.
Byzantian (a. & n.) See Byzantine.
Byzantine (a.) Of or pertaining to Byzantium.
Byzantine (n.) A native or inhabitant of Byzantium, now Constantinople; sometimes, applied to an inhabitant of the modern city of Constantinople.