adv. Obs. = FORBY adv. 1 b.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Pardoners T., 340 (Harl. MS.). What corps is [this] þat passeth her forþ by?
14[?]. Lydg., Temple Glas, 230. Forth-bi as he doþ pace.
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 84 b/i. There were seuen deuylles wythout ye cyte by the hye waye which slew all them that passed forthby. Ibid. (c. 1489), Sonnes of Aymon, xxviii. 586. Thenne cam a pylgrym forthby that salved the barons.
