† ˈby-slip Obs.
[f. by- 2 b + slip n.]
1. A casual or trivial fault.
| 1612 Chapman Widow's T. v, Might it not concur with..your office..to wink a little at a by-slip or so? |
2. transf. A bastard. Cf. by-scape.
| a 1670 Hacket Abp. Williams ii. (1692) 37 As Pope Paul the third carried himself to his ungracious by-slips (an Incubus could not have begot worse). |