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What does forby mean?

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Adjective
  1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Uncommon; out of the ordinary; extraordinary; superior.
Adverb
  1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Past; by; beyond.
  2. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Uncommonly; exceptionally.
Preposition
  1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Beyond; past; more than; greater than; over and above; moreover.
  2. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic, of time) Past; gone by; over.
  3. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Near; beside; by, close to.
  4. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) On one side; out of the way.
  5. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Besides; in addition to; as well as; not to mention.
  6. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) With the exception of; not taking into account.
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