vbl. sb. Also 9 Sc. by-ganging, by-gaun. [f. BY- 2 a.] The action of passing by; esp. in phr. In the bygoing: in passing, incidentally, by the way.
1637. Rutherford, Lett., cxxii. (1862), I. 303. A smell in the by-going is sufficient.
1818. Scott, Rob Roy, xxxv. Your beasts had been taking a rug of … moorland grass in the by-ganging.
1833. M. Scott, Tom Cringle, xv. (1859), 358. Timotheus I may state in the bygoing was not a Dutchman.
