By"word` (&?;), n. [AS. bïword; bï, E. by + word.] 1. A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general
currency. I knew a wise man that
had it for a byword.
Bacon. 2.
The object of a contemptuous saying. Thou makest us a
byword among the heathen.
Ps. xliv.
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