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Webster 1913 Edition
Forby
For-by′
,adv.
& prep.
[See
Foreby
.] Near; hard by; along; past.
[Obs.]
To tell her if her child went ought
forby
. Chaucer.
To the intent that ships may pass along
forby
all the sides of the city without let. Robynson (More’s Utopia).