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ˌout-ˈby, -bye, adv. (a.) Sc. and north. dial.
[f. out adv. + by adv. Cf. in-bye.]
Out a little way; a short distance out; outside the house, abroad, in the open air; to the outside (of a house, mine, farm, etc.).
a1400–50Alexander 2762 (Ashm.) Þe ledis out of Landace & all þe landis out-by. 1752D. Stewart in Scots Mag. (1753) July 344/2 There were two gentlemen wanting him out-by. 1819Scott Br. Lamm. vii, A' gaes wrang when the Master's out-bye. Ibid. xxv, The very pick-maws and solan geese outby yonder at the Bass. 1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Outbye or Outbyeside, Newc., nearer to the shaft, and hence further from the forewinning. 1886Stevenson Kidnapped 30 Step out-by to the door a minute.
b. attrib. Outside, out-of-doors, as out-by work, field-labour, out-by servant, out-by worker (on a farm); out-lying, as ‘the sheep in the out-by field’; out-by farm, a moorland farm.
1816Scott Bl. Dwarf x, Harry and I hae been to gather what was on the outbye land, and there's scarce a cloot left. 1896N. Munro Lost Pibroch (1902) 104 Our folk lived the clean outby life of shepherds and early risers. 1898Paton Castlebraes 145 (E.D.D.) The outbye agricultural workers. |