Word Meanings - BY-STREET - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A separate, private, or obscure street; an out of the way or cross street. He seeks by-streets, and saves the expensive coach. Gay.
Related words: (words related to BY-STREET)
- CROSSLY
Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor. - CROSS-EXAMINER
One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination. - CROSSJACK
The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast. - OBSCURENESS
Obscurity. Bp. Hall. - CROSSOPTERYGIAN
Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii. -- n. - CROSSBRED
Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel. - OBSCURER
One who, or that which, obscures. - CROSS-STONE
See STAUROTIDE - CROSS-ARMED
With arms crossed. - CROSSGRAINED
1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon. - PRIVATEERING
Cruising in a privateer. - CROSSBREED
1. A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualites of two parent varieties or stocks. 2. Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid. - COACHMAN
A tropical fish of the Atlantic ocean ; -- called also charioteer. The name refers to a long, lashlike spine of the dorsal fin. (more info) 1. A man whose business is to drive a coach or carriage. - CROSSLEGGED
Having the legs crossed. - CROSS-VAULTING
Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults. - CROSSHEAD
A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it - CROSS-BUTTOCK
A throw in which the wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, places his left leg across both legs of his opponent, and pulls him forward over his hip; hence, an unexpected defeat or repulse. - CROSS-CROSSLET
A cross having the three upper ends crossed, so as to from three small crosses. - CROSSWORT
A name given to several inconspicuous plants having leaves in whorls of four, as species of Crucianella, Valantia, etc. - CROSS-TAIL
A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine. - INSEPARATE
Not separate; together; united. Shak. - LACROSSE
A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught - SUBOBSCURELY
Somewhat obscurely or darkly. Donne.