Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: BY-DE-PEND'ENCE – BYS'SUS
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BY-DE-PEND'ENCE, n.
An appendage; that which depends on something else, or is distinct from the main dependence. – Shak.
BY-DE-SIGN', n.
An incidental design, or purpose. – Hudibras.
BY'-DRINK-ING, n.
A private drinking.
BYE, n. [Sax.]
- A dwelling. – Gibson.
- In play or games, a station, or place of an individual player.
BY'-END, n.
Private end; secret purpose or advantage. – L'Estrange.
BY'-GONE, a.
Past; gone by. [Scots dialect.] – Grew.
BY'-IN-TER-EST, n.
Self-interest; private advantage. – Atterbury.
BY'-LANE, n.
A private lane, or one out of the usual road.
BY'-LAW, n.
A town law; the law of a city, town or private corporation. – Bacon.
BY'-MAT-TER, n.
Something incidental. – Bacon.
BY'-NAME, n.
Nickname; incidental appellation. – Camden.
BY'-NAME, v.t.
To give a nickname to. – Camden.
BY'PAS-SAGE, n.
A passage by the by or way; or a byway.
BY'-PAST, a.
Past; gone by. [Scots dialect.] – Cheyne.
BY'-PATH, n.
A private path; an obscure way. – Shak.
BY-RE-SPECT', n.
Private end, or view. – Bacon. Dryden.
BY'-ROAD, n.
A private or obscure road. – Swift.
BY'-ROOM, n.
A private room or apartment. – Shak.
BY'-SPEECH, n.
An incidental or casual speech, not directly relating to the point. – Hooker.
BY'-SPELL, n. [Sax. bigspell.]
A proverb. [Not used.] – Coles.
BYS'SIN, or BYS'SUS, n. [Gr. βυσσος, infra.]
- A silk or linen hood. [Not in use.] – Gower.
- The thread or fibers by which the genera Pinna, Byssoana and other animals attach themselves to extraneous bodies.
BYS'SINE, a.
Made of silk. – Coles.
BYS'SO-LITE, n. [Gr. βυσσος, fine flax, and λιθος, stone; so called from its resemblance to moss.]
A rare mineral, occurring in very delicate filaments, short, flexible and elastic. Their color is olive green, or brownish yellow, and their luster a little silky. Jameson places byssolite under actinolite; Haüy arranges it under amianthoid. – Husman. Saussure. Cleaveland.
BYS'SUS, n. [L. byssus; Gr. βυσσος, fine linen, or cotton.]
- Fine linen, silk, &c.
- The asbestus, composed of parallel fibers, is by some called by this name. – Nicholson.
BYS'SUS, n.
Beard in shells, as in Mytilus and Pinna.