by prep. (the following uses are now obs.)
1.
about,
concerning
Ado V. i. 316
“virtuous In anything
that I do know by her,”
2H6 II. i. 16,
Oth. I. iii. 17
“How say you by this
change?”
2.
by reason of
3H6 IV. iv. 12
“Fell Warwick's brother,
and by that our foe.”
