"Byroad" is a word in ENGLISH
A private or obscure road.
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A passenger train is creeping along, slowly. Finally it creaks to a halt. A passenger sees a conductor walking by outside."What's going on?" she yells out the window."Cow on the track!" replies the conductor.Ten minutes later, the train resumes its slow pace.Within five minutes, however, it stops again.The woman sees the same conductor walk again.She leans out the window and yells, "What happened? Did we catch up with the cow again?"
A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on or in (from …
Read the complete definitionabáno - (Sp. habano) A cigar, especially one made by machinery, and sold by tobacconists (in contradistinction to the piokós—a …
Read the complete definitionThe removal, prostration, or destruction of that which causes a nuisance, whether by breaking or pulling it down, or otherwise …
Read the complete definitionTo behave or conduct, as in morals, private duties, or public offices; to bear or deport one's self; as, we …
Read the complete definitionThe innermost sanctuary or shrine in ancient temples, whence oracles were given. Hence: A private chamber; a sanctum.
Read the complete definitionL. Fr. 0ne who con-ceals, steals, or carries off a thlng privately. Britt, c. 17
Read the complete definitionIn old English law. A penalty imposed upon a person by way of disgrace or infamy, as a punish-ment for …
Read the complete definitionA particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of …
Read the complete definitionWant of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As …
Read the complete definitionPartial privation or suspension of breath; suffocation.
Read the complete definitionTo charge with a crime; to accuse; to institute a private criminal prosecution against for some heinous crime; as, to …
Read the complete definitionAn accusation; a process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding …
Read the complete definitionA private, disinterested person, chosen by the parties to a disputed
Read the complete definitionThe Rolls; any place where ancient records, charters, and evidences are kept In libraries, the private depository. Cowell; Spelman
Read the complete definitionSo as to be heard by others; privately.
Read the complete definitionTold in the ear, i. e., told privately; as, auricular confession to the priest.
Read the complete definitionIn Scotch law. To make avizandum with a process Is to tnke it from the public court to the private …
Read the complete definitionTo a former state, condition, or station; as, to go back to private life; to go back to barbarism.
Read the complete definitionPrivate; indirect; secret; intriguing; -- as if finding access by the back stairs.
Read the complete definitionStairs in the back part of a house, as distinguished from the front stairs; hence, a private or indirect way.
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