[f. BY- 3 a + PLACE.] A place situated aside, an out-of-the-way spot; an odd corner; also fig.
1580. Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, Lieux destournez, by-places.
1603. Drayton, Bar. Wars, IV. Till in the castle, in an odd by-place, It casts the foul mask from its dusky face.
1685. Boyle, Salubr. Air, Pref. 5. I found it laid in a by-place.
1714. Ellwood, Autobiog. (1765), 256. She liued at a Farm called Whites, a By-place in the Parish of Beconsfield.
1835. Hawthorne, Tales & Sk., O. Woman’s T. Traditions lurking in the corners and by-places of my mind.
