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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

;

pl.

Bypaths

A private path; an obscure way; indirect means.

God known, my son,
By what

bypaths

, and indirect crooked ways,
I met this crown.

Shakespeare

See also: by-path

bypath ‎(plural bypaths)

an unfrequented path; an indirect route; a byway
- 1927, Edgar Rice Burrows, The Outlaw of Torn, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:
  … until he knew every bypath within a radius of fifty miles of Torn.

unfrequented path, byway