This in allusion to the Byname of "the vetoing Mayor of Buffalo" the people had given him on account of his systematic opposition to all extravagant expenditure when Governor of the State.
"Fragments of an Autobiography"
Felix Moscheles
And hence is Cuscrid the Stammerer thy Byname ever since.
"The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland"
T. W. Rolleston
No; he had never heard of one called Randall, neither in hat nor cowl, but he knew more of them by face than by name, and more by Byname than surname or christened name.
"The Armourer's Prentices"
Charlotte Mary Yonge