Word Meanings - BYWAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A secluded, private, or obscure way; a path or road aside from the main one. " Take no byways." Herbert.

Related words: (words related to BYWAY)

• ASIDE
  1. On, or to, one side; out of a straight line, course, or direction; at a little distance from the rest; out of the way; apart. Thou shalt set aside that which is full. 2 Kings iv. 4. But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king. Shak.
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• OBSCURER
  One who, or that which, obscures.
• PRIVATEERING
  Cruising in a privateer.
• PRIVATEERSMAN
  An officer or seaman of a privateer.
• OBSCUREMENT
  The act of obscuring, or the state of being obscured; obscuration. Pomfret.
• PRIVATE
  to an individual, private, properly p. p. of privare to bereave, deprive, originally, to separate, fr. privus single, private, perhaps originally, put forward and akin to prae 1. Belonging to, or concerning, an individual person, company, or
• PRIVATELY
  1. In a private manner; not openly; without the presence of others. 2. In a manner affecting an individual; personally not officially; as, he is not privately benefited.
• OBSCURE
  obscurus, orig., covered; ob- + a root probably meaning, to cover; cf. L. scutum shield, Skr. sku to cover: cf.F. obscur. 1. Covered over, shaded, or darkened; destitute of light; imperfectly illuminated; dusky; dim. His lamp shall be put out
• PRIVATEER
  1. An armed private vessel which bears the commission of the sovereign power to cruise against the enemy. See Letters of marque, under Marque. 2. The commander of a privateer. Kidd soon threw off the character of a privateer and became a pirate.
• SECLUDE
  1. To shut up apart from others; to withdraw into, or place in, solitude; to separate from society or intercourse with others. Let Eastern tyrants from the light of heaven Seclude their bosom slaves. Thomson. 2. To shut or keep out; to exclude.
• OBSCURELY
  In an obscure manner. Milton.
• PRIVATENESS
  1. Seclusion from company or society; retirement; privacy; secrecy. Bacon. 2. The state of one not invested with public office.
• SUBOBSCURELY
  Somewhat obscurely or darkly. Donne.
• SEASIDE
  The land bordering on, or adjacent to, the sea; the seashore. Also used adjectively.
• CLARE-OBSCURE
  See CHIAROSCURO