by-handadv.
/ˈbʌɪhand/, U.S. /ˈbaɪˌhænd/, Scottish English /ˈbaɪhand/ Scottish.
1. Out of hand, aside, out of the way.
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1636 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. lxxii. 187 Cast them by-hand as we do old clothes.
1637 S. Rutherford Let. in Joshua Redivivus (1664) 261 Many ells & inches of the short threed of your life are by hand, since I saw you.
1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1664) i. xi. 32 The greatest part but play with Christianity, they put it by hand easily.
1653 Ld. Wariston & J. Guthrie Causes of Lords Wrath against Scotl. 93 Thinking when that action [sc. administering communion] is by-hand, that we have a vacancie from other Ministeriall duties for a time.
1782 J. Sinclair Observ. Sc. Dial. i. 53 A good thing by-hand, a good thing over.
2. Incidentally.
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1834 Galt in Fraser's Mag. X. 160 She was far advanced when it was by-hand noticed.
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