Defn: Private end or interest; secret purpose; selfish advantage.
[Written also bye-end.]
"Profit or some other by-end." L'Estrange.
BYGONE
By"gone`, a.
Defn: Past; gone by. "Bygone fooleries." Shak
BYGONE
By"gone`, n.
Defn: Something gone by or past; a past event. "Let old bygones be"
Tennyson. Let bygones be bygones, let the past be forgotten.
BY-INTEREST
By"-in`ter*est, n.
Defn: Self-interest; private advantage. Atterbury.
BYLAND
By"land, n.
Defn: A peninsula. [Obs.]
BYLANDER
By"land*er, n.