WAY
(also see ROAD)
ADJECTIVES
► BIVIOUS having or leading two different ways or passages → a1644
► INVIOUS having no roads or ways; pathless; trackless → E17 obs.
► MULTIVIOUS having many ways or roads; going or leading in many directions; manifold → 1656
► QUADRIVIOUS having four ways meeting in one point; going in four directions, as a street → 1883
► SEPTEMVIOUS going in seven different ways or directions → 1861
NOUNS
► ART a direction, way; locality, district → 1805 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► BACK-GATE a way or road that leads behind → 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
► BIG ROAD a public way → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► CAREER the course over which any person or thing passes; a road, a path, a way → 1642 obs.
► CARFAX a place where four roads, streets, or ways meet → 1357
► CARFOUR a place where four roads, streets, or ways meet → 1477 obs.
► CARFOX a place where four roads, streets, or ways meet; sometimes extended to more than four → 1357
► CARREFOUR a place where four roads, streets, or ways meet → 1477 obs.
► DORIS (DAY) a way → 1992 UK rhyming sl.
► FARE a going, journeying; course, passage, way; voyage → c1000 obs.
► FOUR-WAY LEET a meeting of four ways → 1656 obs.
► GANG a way, road, or passage → c950 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► GATE a way, a road, a path → c1200 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► GATESHODEL a parting of the ways; a crossway, a fork of a road → c1375 obs.
► GOIT a way or road → 1897 Sc.
► HAG-ROAD a path or way cut through the undergrowth of a wood → 1878 Eng. dial.
► HAG-WAY a path or way cut through the undergrowth of a wood → 1878 Eng. dial.
► LAND-GATE way or passage over land → 1637 Sc. obs.
► LAND-WAY a way or path over land → c1250 obs.
► NEAR CUT a short by-way → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► NEIGHBORHOOD ROAD a by-way, distinguished from a public road → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► NIGHCUT a short by-way → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► PACE a passage; a narrow way; a pass between mountains, rocks, woods, etc.; a narrow channel at sea, a strait → a1300 obs.
► PAD a path, track; the road, the way → 1567 orig. sl., now also Eng. dial.
► QUARREFOUR a place where four roads, streets, or ways meet → 1477 obs.
► QUATERVOIS ► QUATREFOIS a place where four ways meet → 1646 obs.
► RAKE a way, a path; a rough path over a hill; a narrow path up a cleft or raving → a1300 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► RAMPIRE a raised road or way; the highway → 1848 Eng. dial.
► SITHE a going, journey, path, way → 971 obs.
► THREE-WAY LEET a meeting of three ways → 1603 obs.
► THROUGH a thoroughfare; a public way → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► THROUGH-GANG a way or route through; an entrance; a thoroughfare; a narrow passageway forming a route between two other roads or streets → 1463 Sc. obs
► THROUGHWAY a way through; a means of passage through or between → 1935
► TWO-WAY LEET a meeting of two ways → 1618 obs.
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