by-speech
See also: byspeech
English
Noun
by-speech (plural by-speeches)
- An incidental or casual speech, not directly relating to the point.
- To quote by-speeches. — Hooker.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for by-speech in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)