byname

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byname - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  By-name \By"-name`\, n.
     A nickname. --Camden.
     [1913 Webster]

  Byname \By"name`\, v. t.
     To give a nickname to. --Camden.
     [1913 Webster]

byname - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  byname
      n 1: 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" [syn: nickname, moniker, cognomen,
           sobriquet, soubriquet, byname]