[cf. BY- 2 a.] One who passes by, a passer by.
1566. Gascoigne, Supposes, Wks. (1587), 32. No blazer of her beauty … at the dore for the bypassers.
1807. Southey, Espriella’s Lett., I. 156. Each window has blinds, to prevent the by-passers from looking in.
1862. Times, 23 Dec., 6/6 (Amer. Corr.). The unhappy negroes who have escaped from captivity in the Far South … sitting about on doorsteps in the snow appealing with mute looks to the sympathy of the by-passers.
