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bygone(dictionary)

bygone (iou)



bygone adjective & noun. LME.
[from BY- + GONE adjective.]
A. adjective.
That has gone by in time, past, former. LME.
No longer living. E16.
Antiquated. M19.
b. noun.
In pl. Past events; esp. past offences. Now chiefly as below. M16.
let bygones be bygones forgive and forget.
In pl. Overdue payments, arrears. Chiefly Scot. L16.
A person or thing of the past; spec. an obsolete domestic object or other artefact (usu. in pl.). M19.