byname : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: byname	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for byname
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
byname n a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name); "Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph"; "Henry's nickname was Slim" Synonym(s): nickname, moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, byname
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
By-name \By"-name`\, n. A nickname. --Camden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Byname \By"name`\, v. t. To give a nickname to. --Camden.