left-sidedadj.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 230 He [sc. the hee-goat] hath many attributes among the learned, as left-sided, aged, greedy, bearded.

1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Sinister, left-sided, unlucky.

1824 J. G. Gorton tr. Voltaire Philos. Dict. III. 143 You have displayed all the sublimity of the mosaic law, Ezekiel's breakfast; his delightful left-sided attitudes.

1850 Morning Chron. 10 Aug. 5/5 The press of the whole nation would ring with clamours against these violations of the laws of nations—these left-sided acts of war.

1950 Changing Times Sept. 20/2 It is not their nature to promote or accept class warfare even though some left-sided business agent thinks he must create discord and ill will in order to keep his job.

1801 Farther Excursions Observant Pedestrian II. 223 You know what a rheumatiz I've had in my jaws, and a great hole in my left-sided tooth of wisdom.

1829 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 119 35 I..pointed the tube in a left-sided series.

1864 Belfast News-Let. 14 July A Ladies' saddle: left sided.

1938 C. W. Cunnington Eng. Women's Clothing Nineteenth Cent. (1990) 412/1 Blouses..may have left-sided fastenings or centre fastenings.

1964 Financial Times 17 Dec. 20/5 The inedibility of the left-sided snail with its shell wound anti-clockwise.

1991 R. R. McCammon Boy's Life iii. vii. 299 He delivered the gun to its butt-first position in the left-sided holster.

2010 Dunoon Observer & Argyllshire Standard 3 Dec. 28/4 A good off the ball run from ‘Tiny’ and some silky skills from A. Miller saw the left-sided midfielder finish.

1846 W. E. Swaine tr. K. E. Hasse Anat. Descr. Dis. Organs Circulation & Respiration ii. i. 200 In left-sided pleurisy the heart is frequently driven from its natural position.

1888 Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Dis. Women & Children 21 640 To account for the occurrence of left-sided thrombosis there are some anatomical reasons.

1933 Times 4 Mar. 8/2 In the great majority of cases of left-sided paralysis, due to similar disease of the right hemisphere, no interference with speech occurs.

1968 Jrnl. Pediatrics 73 316/2 The occurrence of right-sided myocardial infarction in cor pulmonale and of left-sided infarction in left ventricular hypertrophy has been stressed.

1975 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 20 Sept. 676/2 A throbbing left-sided headache then developed, associated with occasional nausea and vomiting.

2001 M. M. Sohlberg & C. A. Mateer Cognitive Rehabilit. ii. 43 There appears to be a higher proportion of severe depression in patients with left-sided strokes.

2012 Pract. Radiation Oncol. 2 202/2 To minimize selection bias, patients were consecutively selected to obtain 11 patients who were treated for right-sided breast cancer and 11 patients for left-sided breast cancer.

1875 Cornhill Mag. Feb. 164 No child shall be allowed to remain either right-sided or left-sided, but be initiated as early as possible into two-sided ways.

1896 Mind & Body Mar. 3 It is cruel and absurd to force a child that has become left-sided and left-handed to do work with the right hand.

1902 Jrnl. Mental Sci. 48 348 Both the left-sided and ambidextrous can see further, hear better, possess more acute tactile and muscular sense, on the left side.

1983 H. McIlvanney in McIlvanney on Football (2002) 42 He was naturally left-sided but made himself two-footed in his teens, in the same painstaking practice sessions that developed his intricate control.

2014 M. Zaręba & E. Cieśla in Physical Activity in Sci. & Pract. i. 28 Left-sided children, who have undergone early and strong lateralisation, usually use their left legs in a similar manner to their right-sided peer use of their right legs [sic].

1870 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 22 Sept. 181/1 Some ingenious speculations which have been made upon the causes of right-handedness may have a bearing on the left-sidedness of the lesion in aphasia.

1891 C. Lombroso Man of Genius i. ii. 13 Leftsidedness is to-day regarded as a character of atavism and degeneration.

1992 Current Anthropol. 33 118 The weak but consistent trend toward left-sidedness found for termite fishing also holds across all known large-scale studies of chimpanzee tool use.

2013 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Nexis) 3 Aug. 46 He will bring something different to the team, with real pace in the wide left area and natural left-sidedness which we maybe didn't have.