forebye

Preposition

forby

1. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal) Beyond; past; more than; greater than; over and above; moreover.
2. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal) Past; gone by; over.
3. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal) Near; beside; by, close to.
   • Those were the two sonnes of Acrates old / Who meeting earst with Archimago slie, / Foreby that idle strond, of him were told, / That he, wich earst them combatted, was Guyon bold.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   next to

4. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal) On one side; out of the way.
5. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal) Besides; in addition to; as well as; not to mention.
   • There was other six forby me.

   Synonyms:

   beyond

6. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal) With the exception of; not taking into account.

   Synonyms:

   barring

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