Also biþinne, biþute, bythowte, bethout. Altered forms [app. produced by the substitution of by for wi’, in with] of WITHIN, WITHOUT (cf. BEDENE).
a. 1300. Floriz & Bl., 218. Seue hundred tures and two Beoþ in þe burȝ biþute mo. Ibid., 244. Ef þer comeþ eni man Biþinne þilke barbecan.
a. 1400. Usages of Winchester, in Eng. Gilds, 354. Euerych defawte by-þinne þe amountaunce of þre shyllynges. Ibid., 363. Lese þe tenaunt by-þowte rekenerynge.
1589. Marprel. Epit. (1843), 15. Tell me then bethout dissimblation.
1879. Jamieson, Bethout, without. Fife.
