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laterally, adv.|ˈlætərəlɪ| [f. lateral a. + -ly2.] At the side; to or from the side; in a side direction; sideways.
1561Eden tr. Cortez' Arte Nauig. i. viii. 10 The inferior parte is moued..laterally. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. i, 181 Pectinals, or such as have their bones made laterally like a comb. 1694W. Holder Disc. conc. Time 89 The Days whereof are set Laterally after and against the Columns of [the] Golden Number. 1797Holcroft tr. Stolberg's Trav. (ed. 2) III. lxxx. 259 A rope..was fastened laterally to a wall. 1857C. Brontë Professor I. x. 160 [She] turned her eye laterally on me. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. v. 38 The greater portion of it [the water] escaping laterally from the glacier. 1861Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon ii. iii. iii. 96 The rostrum [of the Crayfish] is dentated laterally. 1866Howells Venet. Life 128 They..abandoned the main subject of dispute and took up the quarrel laterally. |