Obs. [f. BY- 3 a, 5 + GROUND.]
a. A piece of ground lying out of the way. b. fig. A secondary ground or cause.
a. 1603. T. Cartwright, Confut. Rhem. N. T. (1618), 499. Augustine esteemed it but of custome, and other by-grounds, that in one Church there should bee but one onely Bishop.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., VI. xvi. 96. Many remnants [of causeways] remaine, especially in pastures, or by-grounds out of the rode way.
