Usually means: Beyond; past; near; beside; besides.
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  1. forby: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. forby: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. forby: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Forby, forby: Wordnik
  5. forby: Wiktionary
  6. forby: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. forby: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Forby, forby: Dictionary.com
  9. Forby: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. forby: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Forby: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. forby: Free Dictionary
  13. forby: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  14. forby: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. forby: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Forby)

adjective:  (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Uncommon; out of the ordinary; extraordinary; superior.
adverb:  (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Past; by; beyond.
adverb:  (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Uncommonly; exceptionally.
noun:  A surname.

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