[f. BY- 3 b, c, 5 + PASSAGE.]
a. A side passage or alley. b. A casual and incidental passage in a book or document.
1674. Hickman, Hist. Quinquart. (ed. 2), 232. What need I contend about by-passages relating to the Recantation?
1697. Dryden, Virg. Life (1721), I. 61. When People crouded to see him, he [Virgil] would slip into the next Shop, or By-passage to avoid them.
1864. in Webster.
