ppl. a. [f. BY- 2 a + STANDING.] That stands by or near.

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1622.  Sparrow, Bk. Com. Prayer (1661), 250. A by-standing Table called the Table of Proposition.

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1884.  A. A. Putnam, Ten Years Police Judge, xii. 85. Money … forthcoming from the pockets of bystanding friends.

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