By-Name is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.
You can make 100 anagrams from letters in by-name (-abemny).
Middle English word dating back to 1325-75
His daughter was named Steinvor, a pretty girl and well set up; her by-name was Slim-ankles.
But the thing that ruined him, and fixed the by-name on him, was, that he became a sort of fixture in Luckie Riddle's parlour.
It was not so; and the by-name by which I went behind my back confirmed it.
All these troops arrived by degrees in Tepeaca, and respectively obtained some by-name or other from our men.
It is well I knew what man he was under his by-name and his disguise.
JACK, a word with a great variety of meanings and applications, all traceable to the common use of the word as a by-name of a man.
The Resurrection Man—to use a by-name of the period—was not to be deterred by any of the sanctities of customary piety.
Alex inquired, remembering how the nun had addressed her by-name.
He was a capital comic actor, and owed his by-name to his success in playing Dicky, in the "Constant Couple."
"Indeed, and I hope it may be no more than a by-name," she said gravely.
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