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By-past a. Past; gone by. “By-past perils.”
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bypast
adj : well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone
times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a
departed era" [syn: bygone, departed, foregone, gone]
bypass
n 1: a road that takes traffic around the edge of a town [syn: circumferential,
ring road]
2: a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part)
3: a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another
device to divert a fraction of the current [syn: shunt,
electrical shunt]
v : avoid something unpleasant or laborious; "You cannot bypass
these rules!" [syn: short-circuit, go around, get
around]
[also: bypast]