ppl. a. [f. BY- 2 a + STANDING.] That stands by or near.
1622. Sparrow, Bk. Com. Prayer (1661), 250. A by-standing Table called the Table of Proposition.
1884. A. A. Putnam, Ten Yrs. Police Judge, xii. 85. Money … forthcoming from the pockets of by-standing friends.
