? Obs. Also 8 bye- [f. BY- 2 b, 3 c, d + VIEW sb.] a. A side glance, or glimpse; a look directed to an object not immediately before the eye. b. A private, unavowed or self-interested aim; cf. BY-END.
1706. Atterbury, Serm. (1740), II. 97 (J.). No By-Views of his own shall mislead him.
1753. Gray’s Inn Jrnl., No. 30 (1756), I. 193. Every Reader of Taste must have been greatly delighted with these Bye-views.
