forby

adj

1. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal)Uncommon; out of the ordinary; extraordinary; superior.

   “He's a forbye man.”

adv

1. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal)Past; by; beyond.

   “To see the world and folk that went forby, […]”

2. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal)Uncommonly; exceptionally.

   “He was forby kind.”

prep

1. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal)Beyond; past; more than; greater than; over and above; moreover.
2. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal)Past; gone by; over.
3. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal)Near; beside; by, close to.

   “Those were the two sonnes of Acrates old / Who meeting earst with Archimago slie, / Foreby that idle strond, of him were told, / That he, wich earst them combatted, was Guyon bold.”

4. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal)On one side; out of the way.
5. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal)Besides; in addition to; as well as; not to mention.

   “There was other six forby me.”

   “[T]hey ca' it fasting when they hae the best o' fish frae Hartlepool and Sunderland by land carriage, forbye trouts, gilses, salmon, and a' the lave o't, and so they make their very fasting a kind of luxury and abomination; […]”

   “"Put on your dress, ye shameless witch, standin' there in your pelt I'll take a strap to, for havin' the conceit out of you, forby your idling had lost me the sup of gin to keep the breath of life in me."”

6. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal)With the exception of; not taking into account.

name

1. A surname.