Also 9 bye- [f. BY- 4 + TIME.] Time not occupied by one’s main work or pursuits; spare time, odd hours.
1609. C. Butler, Fem. Mon., Pref. (1823), 3. To spend some by-time for my recreation in searching out their [bees’] nature.
1775. Johnson, Lett., I. cxxiv. 267. I, therefore, step over at by-times, and of by-times I have enough.
1865. Dickens, Mut. Fr., II. v. In bye-times, as on this holiday.
