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siden.1

Brit. /sʌɪd/, U.S. /saɪd/
Forms: early Old English siide, Old English (in compounds)–1600s sid, Old English (in compounds)–1600s syd, Old English (rare)–1700s syde, Old English– side, Middle English cyyd, Middle English cyyde, Middle English said, Middle English siȝde, Middle English sijde, Middle English siðe (perhaps transmission error), Middle English syddes (plural), Middle English syede, Middle English syȝe (probably transmission error), Middle English sythes (plural, perhaps transmission error), Middle English zide, Middle English zyde, 1500s siddes (plural), 1500s syyd, 1500s syyde, 1600s siyd, 1800s zeide (Irish English (Wexford)); English regional 1800s seyde, 1800s– sahd (Yorkshire), 1800s– sid (Cheshire), 1800s– soide (northern), 1800s– zide (south-western); also Scottish pre-1700 said, pre-1700 sayed, pre-1700 schyd, pre-1700 seyd, pre-1700 syd, pre-1700 sydd, pre-1700 sydde, pre-1700 syid, pre-1700 syide.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian side , sīthe (West Frisian side ), Old Dutch sīda (Middle Dutch sīde , zīde , sië , sijt , Dutch zijde , zij ), Old Saxon sīda (Middle Low German sīde , sīt ), Old High German sīta (Middle High German sīte , sīt , German Seite ), Old Icelandic síða (Icelandic síða ), Norwegian side , Old Swedish siþa , sidha (Swedish sida ), Old Danish side (Danish side ) < the same Germanic base as side adj. Compare side adv.1History in Germanic. As with side adj., no cognate is attested in Gothic. Although all of the four sense branches of the English word are represented for most of its cognates, the earliest evidence in several of the Germanic languages is for physical senses corresponding to those at branch I., especially relating to the lateral part of the human trunk (compare sense 1a) and to the space adjacent to it (compare sense 3), although there is also early evidence (e.g. in Old Dutch) for use denoting direction relative to a central position (compare branch III.). Branch IV. appears generally to be a later development. The Germanic noun may have developed from the base of side adj. via a meaning such as ‘broad surface’, ‘something long’, or ‘long aspect (of something)’. Place-name evidence. With sense 10 compare use in place names, especially in the north of England, as e.g. Langeside , lit. ‘long slope’, West Riding, Yorkshire (1200–14; now Langsett), Qwernsyd , near Ingleborough, West Riding, Yorkshire (1204; now Whernside, the name of a hill of over 2,400 feet), etc.; compare also the following early attestations from southern counties: Side , Gloucestershire (1086; now Syde), apparently named from its location on a slope of the Cotswolds, Lammeseta , Devon (1086; 1242 as Lamside ; now Lambside), apparently a hillside on which lambs were reared. Recent studies of the topography of these places suggest that this word was applied from an early date to long hill slopes of significant height but relatively shallow gradient; see further M. Gelling Place-names in Landscape (1984) 187 and M. Gelling & A. Cole Landscape of Place-names (2000) 219. Compare also hillside n., mountainside n. With use in sense 11a in combination with a river name perhaps compare modern district and region names such as Merseyside , Humberside , Teesside , etc. (with the latter compare bi tese side at c1330 at sense 11a), although such names may also reflect sense 20b. Compare also sideling n. 1. Specific forms. In the Middle English form siðe (attested in Genesis & Exodus, whose scribal language is placed in west Norfolk), if not a scribal error, perhaps reflecting influence from early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic síða ). Specific senses and phrases. In sense 1b after classical Latin latera, plural of latus side (see lateral adj.), with reference to the exertion of speaking. In sense 23 probably originally short for side dish n. (with use in quot. 1847 compare quot. 1702 at side dish n. 1); with subsequent use in this sense compare also side order n. at Compounds 3. A number of the prepositional phrases at Phrases 1 have given rise to adverbs; with phrases in by at Phrases 1a compare beside adv.; with on side at Phrases 1f(a)(i) compare aside adv.; compare also inside n.1, adj., adv., and prep., outside n., adj., adv., and prep., etc.
I. The right or left part of a person's or animal's body, and related senses.
1.
a. The part of a person's or animal's trunk or torso between the left or right shoulder and the corresponding hip, or between the left or right ribs and the corresponding hip. Also figurative and in figurative contexts. Cf. loin n. 1a, flank n.1 1a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > side > [noun]
sideOE
coastc1420
pleuron1706
costal1816
pleurum1876
OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: John xix. 34 Sed unus militum lancea latus eius aperuit : ah an ðara cempa mið spere sidu his untynde.
OE Riddle 72 16 Oft mec [sc. an ox] isern scod sare on sidan.
OE Ælfric Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Claud.) ii. 21 Ða genam he an rib of his sidan.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4777 Shulldre. & bacc. & side. & halls. & hæfedd.
a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 147 Þa..weren his side mid speres orde iopened.
a1300 in R. Morris Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 81 Þer cumeþ god myd his rode, His honde and his syde al a blode.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. l. 1085 Whan the scharpnesse of the spore The horse side smit to sore.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 627 Vte of his side..Wit-oten sare a rib he tok.
a1400 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Egerton) (1966) l. 362 (MED) Herewith þow may þat swete þing Wynne..Blauncheflour with þe white syde.
1472 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 450 My ladye was off s[t]ature goode and had sydes longe and large.
1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. eiijv With the hede With the shulderis and the sides.
a1500 in R. H. Robbins Secular Lyrics 14th & 15th Cent. (1952) 121 (MED) Her sidis ben long, her myddyl small.
c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) l. 349 She weryd ii bokelers, oon by her syde.
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) lxxv. sig. Tiiv Syr there is two ribbes broken in sir Rowlandes syde.
1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Eij His brawnie sides with hairie bristles armed. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. vii. 26 I haue no Spurre To pricke the sides of my intent. View more context for this quotation
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 342 Were this true, it would autoptically silence that dispute out of which side Eve was framed. View more context for this quotation
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 52 The Blow taking my Side and Breast, beat the Breath as it were quite out of my Body.
1738 tr. S. Guazzo Art of Conversat. 159 Evil Princes have evil sides; that is, bad Counsellors.
1835 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 44 129 A pain in the right side..is more likely to be the attendant on liver abscess.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxviii. 141 St. Clare received a fatal stab in the side with a bowie-knife.
1917 A. L. Brewer 'Gator's Euchre 96 The lead drover digs his spurs into his horse's sides.
1970 T. Southern Blue Movie ii. viii. 98 I began kissing her,..and caressing her—her sides and hips, and legs.
2001 D. King Burglar Diaries xxx. 234 Ollie gasps frantically for breath and clutches at the huge stitch in his side.
b. In plural. This part of the body as affected by laughter or (in early use) exertion in speaking. Frequently in phrases alluding hyperbolically to injury arising from excessive laughter, esp. in to split one's sides and variants at Phrases 6. Cf. rib n.1 1c.
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1598 J. Marston Certaine Satyres i, in Metamorph. Pigmalions Image 36 Oh hold my sides, that I may breake my spleene, With laughter at the shadowes I haue seene.
1604 S. Hieron Preachers Plea in Wks. (1620) I. 485 O master preacher!..Spare your sides. I am well enough.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. vi. 70 The iolly Britaine..laughes from's free lungs: cries oh, Can my sides hold, to think [etc.].
1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 470 Hauing thus dispatched my Message, it is now time I should spare both your eares, and my owne sides.
1645 J. Milton L'Allegro in Poems 31 Sport that wrincled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
1772 J. Macgowan Infernal Conf. I. vii. 207 Certainly you would have tired your sides with laughing, to see how they footed the treble dance.
1782 W. Cowper Expostulation in Poems 131 It shakes the sides of splenetic disdain.
1828 Paisley Mag. Sept. 431 One would no more expect to see laughter inflating their cheeks, and shaking their sides, than to see a bee trying to extract honey from a nettle.
1893 Current Lit. 12 149/1 The dear old John Gilbert revives Sir Peter or Sir Anthony, till your sides ache, or Jefferson brings on poor Rip to make the heart as well as the sides ache.
1906 J. Conrad Mirror of Sea 84 His office was so warm, his fire so bright, his sides shook so heartily with laughter, [etc.].
1999 Canoeist May 37/3 By the time he had bobbed up, spluttering, beside his upturned boat, my sides were already aching with laughter.
2. More generally: either the left or right part or surface of a person's or animal's entire body (including the head, limbs, etc.).This sense may instead by regarded as a contextual use of sense 7 and thus belong at branch II.*.
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eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iii. vii. 178 Hit..þy gewunelican þeawe horsa æfter werignesse ongon wealwian, & on æghwæðre siidan [L. in diuersum latus] hit gelomlice oferwearp.
OE Lacnunga (2001) I. lv. 28 Licge on ða swiðran sidan gode hwile æfter ðæm drænce.
a1300 (c1275) Physiologus (1991) l. 466 Ðanne cumeð ðis elp unride & leneð him up on his side.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. i. 1092 Some draweþ so forewarde by strengþe of þe sydes and plyauntnesse of þe body, as serpentes, addres, and snakes.
c1450 tr. Secreta Secret. (Royal) 25 (MED) Whan thou hast take thi refeccioun, ley the to slepe on a soft bed on thi right side þe tyme of an houre, and than turne the and slepe on þat oþir side.
?1527 L. Andrewe tr. Noble Lyfe Bestes sig. t.iv The playce is well knowen fisshe for he is brode & blake on the one syde and whyte on the other.
1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum v. xxxi. f. 52/2 It is a good signe that a sicke man in Febribus acutis, lye on his side, & specially on his right side.
1632 tr. G. Bruele Praxis Medicinæ 187 But the patient must rather lye on his backe, then on that side, for if he lye on that side, the paine is increased.
1681 R. Knox Hist. Relation Ceylon i. vii. 29 Two sorts of them [sc. snakes] I have seen, the one green, the other of a reddish gray, full of white rings along the sides.
1714 E. Freke Remembrances (2001) 69 This feaver fell into my left side and settled in my foott and ankle as black as a cole.
1792 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina (new ed.) i. ii. 12 It [sc. a fish] is as large as a man's hand, nearly oval and thin, being compressed on each side; the tail is beautifully formed.
1825 Lancet 28 May 240/2 A thin healthy woman, hanging clothes from a second-floor window, over-reached herself..and she fell on her side.
1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xxii, in Writings I. 222 Tangle rolled upon his side, gabbling something in his sleep.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xiv. 374 The animal lies on its side quite unable to move.
1990 D. McCullin Unreasonable Behaviour 276 She was dragging her leg, and her arm was stiff and useless. She was virtually paralysed all down one side.
2014 N. Brooks Indecent Acts 28 Lights out he says and turns over on his side.
3. The region immediately to the left or right of a person; a place or position closely adjacent to someone (usually with implications of assistance, moral support, etc.). Cf. by (also at) a person's side at Phrases 1a.
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the world > space > distance > nearness > [noun]
sideOE
nighnessOE
propinquity?a1425
neighboured1440
neighbourshipc1485
nearnessc1545
vicinity1560
neighbourhood1567
proximity1579
affinity1612
appropinquity1646
voisinage1665
vicinage1686
proximation1802
proximateness1881
OE Blickling Homilies 43 Naht feor from þæs mæssepreostes sidan, þe we ær bufan emb spræcon.
OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 216 Þusend feallað fram þinre sidan, and tyn þusend fram þinre swyðran, þe sylf soðlice ne genealecæð nan yfel.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. l. 425 (MED) His sonys..vp-on hym, wher-so þat he rood Þe longe day, manfully abood, Partyng nat, pleynly, fro his syde.
1534 T. Swinnerton in tr. Mustre of Scismatyke Bysshopes Prol. sig. A.iiii This cardynall..sayde that it was a shamfull thynge & abhomynable in the syght of god, a preest to ryse from a strompettes syde.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. ii. 76 All soules that wilbe safe, flie from my side . View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 176 Let us forth, I never from thy side henceforth to stray. View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 143 Th' Infernal Troops..list'ning, crowd the sweet Musician's side . View more context for this quotation
1769 I. Bickerstaff Ephesian Matron i. 3 Death snatch'd her consort from her side; She lov'd, she sorrow'd, and she died.
1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 40 Allur'd By ev'ry gilded folly, we renounc'd His shelt'ring side.
1882 E. J. Worboise Sissie ix. 91 ‘What a wild pussy-cat she is!’ said her father, looking fondly at her, as she dashed abruptly from his side.
1898 T. Hardy Wessex Poems 122 His Jenny had not left his side Betwixt the eve and morning-tide.
1932 N.Y. Hush 5 Nov. 2/4 It took two women and a man..to drag her loving husband from her side.
1955 L. de Wohl Spear (1957) i. i. 5 He would not leave her side even when a proconsul and two senators tried to get rid of him.
2015 Sunday Tribune (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 19 Apr. 25 He played a round of golf with a spring in his step, with his girlfriend never far from his side.
†4. In plural and (later esp.) in singular. poetic. The womb. Cf. loin n. 2b. Obsolete.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > side > [noun] > loin or flank > as seat of generation
sidesa1393
loin?1541
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vi. l. 1467 Circes toswolle bothe sides He lefte, and waiteth on the tydes.
c1405 (c1380) G. Chaucer Second Nun's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 43 With Inne the Cloistre blisful of thy sydis Took mannes shap the eternal loue and pees.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 348 Now has þou, woman,..with-in þi twa sydis Consayued him.
?c1500 Mary Magdalene (Digby) l. 1758 Þe chyld þat be-twyx my sydes lay.
a1525 Ballat Our Lady in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 271 Thy blissit sydis bure þe campioun.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. ii. sig. Cc8 The louing mother, that nine monethes did beare, In the deare closett of her painefull syde, Her tender babe.
1637 J. Milton Comus 35 From her faire unspotted side Two blissfull twins are to be borne.
1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna Ded. p. xxix From thy side two gentle babes are born.
1880 Ld. Tennyson Rizpah xi, in Ballads & Other Poems 18 O no! they are mine—not theirs—they had moved in my side.
5.
a. Either of two halves into which the body of an animal that has been butchered or prepared for eating is split lengthwise, or a part of one of these; spec. (esp. in side of bacon) a salted and cured cut of pork meat consisting of the loin and belly from either half of the pig.In quot. a1400: one half of a slaughtered child.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > side or flank
flitcha700
loinc1340
sidea1400
lunyie?a1513
coastc1540
flitchen1658
flank1747
tenderloin1828
short loin1866
lap1922
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 8715 (MED) Wid suord it sal be delt in tua, And ether sal haue a side in hand.
a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 25 (MED) Loke þat þow haue fayre sydys of Pyggys & fayre smal Chykenys wyl & clene skladdyd & drawe.
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox, Wolf, & Cadger l. 2126 in Poems (1981) 81 It is ane syde of salmond, as it wair.
1599 in Antiquary (1896) 32 242 One side of baconn.
1622 T. Walkley tr. J. de Luna Pursuit Hist. Lazarillo xv. 164 Two Pots of Honey, two sides of Bacon, much poudred Meat, and some dryed Fruits.
1663 S. Pepys Diary 4 Apr. (1971) (modernized text) IV. 95 A great dish of a side of lamb.
1727 J. Gay Fables I. xxi. 70 They undermin'd whole sides of bacon.
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. v. 48 The 'Squire..sent us a side of venison.
1820 W. Scott Monastery II. i. 4 The haggis and the side of mutton, with which her table was set forth.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 167 After the carcass has hung 24 hours, it should be cut down by the back-bone, or chine, into two sides.
1897 Daily News 28 Sept. 8/3 The small carcases from which come the Wiltshire sides most popular with the Canadian consumer.
1922 National Provisioner 25 Mar. 53/1 The larger retailer can buy a side or carcass at a reduction of one-half cent.
1994 Minnesota Monthly Feb. 79/1 Ingredients: 8 oz. ground sole mousse, 1 ea., 1 lb. side of salmon, 2 Tbsp. brunoise of red pepper, [etc.].
2010 D. Devonshire Wait for Me! xviii. 236 One pen had two lively prime baconers with a side of bacon displayed overhead.
b. Tanning. Either of two halves into which a hide is split lengthwise.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > [noun] > parts
side1731
skive1875
buffinga1884
1731 H. Crouch Compl. View Brit. Customs (new ed.) iii. 359 Each two Sides of Leather are accounted.
1764 Ann. Reg. 1763 92 Georgia..exports: 1602 sides of tanned leather.
1852 C. Morfit Art of Tanning, Currying, & Leather-dressing (1853) 23 The number of sides of sole leather inspected during the last five years.
1922 A. B. Farnham Home Tanning Guide xi. 100 When the tanning is done, take the sides out.
2000 H. W. Ockerman & C. L. Hansen Animal By-product Processing 159 The hides are retrimmed if necessary and split along the backbone from head to tail to make two sides.
6. Either of the two (left or right) aspects of a person's face. Often with preceding qualifying adjective (as good, bad, best, etc.) in contexts expressive of a desire to present one's better or more attractive profile to the world, now typically for a photograph, film, etc. Also in figurative contexts.Cf. to turn the best side outward(s) at best adj., n.1, and adv. Phrases 1c(a).
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1540 R. Jonas tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde ii. f. lxxix Set the cradel in such a place that the lyght maye come directelye..in the chyldes face neyther in the one syde neyther in the other.
1574 J. Studley tr. J. Bale Pageant of Popes f. 197v Because he is one hyred by the Pope..[he] turneth the best side of his Popes face outward, and that which is blemished..[he] paynteth it with a fayre coloure to couer the foule blots.
1638 R. Younge Drunkard's Char. 638 Making shew only of that halfe of his face, which was perfect, but hiding the other side, wherein he was..deformed.
1672 N. Jemson in J. Pye Acct. Strange Apparition 4 The Masters face being burnt.., especially on the left side.
1752 S. Foote Taste i. 8 Every Body has a more betterer, and more worserer Side of the Face than the other.
1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 202 I could not..perceive any distortion of the face to the opposite side.
1871 Year-bk. Photogr. & Photogr. News Almanac 87 The first thing to be done is to notice which is the better side of the face, as the two sides almost invariably differ.
1896 Windsor Mag. 3 709/1 Suddenly the sitter will explain: ‘Oh, I forgot. The photographer tells me this is my worst side.’
1941 Coronet June 129/1 The girl with only one good profile is photographed only from her good side.
1976 Instructor Dec. 5/1 ‘Don't get my bad side!’.. How could such..reasonable people become so difficult at the flick of a camera flash?
2008 J. Kennealy Still Shot xvii. 153 ‘My left side is my best,’ Manners said, tilting her head upward to stretch out her double chin.
II. A surface or edge of an object, and related senses.
* An edge or surface that forms the boundary of an object.
7. Either of the two longer surfaces or edges of an object contrasted with the ends; either of the two surfaces or edges at the left and right of an object contrasted with the top and bottom; either of the two surfaces of an object lying between and contrasted with the front and back.The precise application depends to some extent on the form of the object and its position in relation to the observer.In quot. ?c1225 in figurative context.In quot. 1487: the flank of a battle formation.
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the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [noun] > the side of anything
sideeOE
cheeka1400
coasta1400
wing?1482
flank1624
siding1627
broadside1632
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surface > [noun] > one of the two longer surfaces of something
sideeOE
eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xxii. 169 Hat wyrcean twegen stengas..& sting ut ðurh ða hringas bi ðære earce sidan [L. in arcae lateribus].
OE Rule St. Benet (Corpus Cambr.) vii. 23 Þære hlædre sidan tacniað lichoman and saule.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 286 Þet þis scheld naueð siden is for bitacnuncge þet his deciples þe schulde stonden bihim.
c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1906) 26* A coustes claies et roulouns, Be sydes hirdeles and cartesoulis.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. xxxvii. 5 Þe which he putte in to þe ringis þat weren in þe sydes of þe arke.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xv. 28 Cum we than on thame at a syde.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 132v When menne dooe mocke any bodye thei wagge their handes up & down by their eares at the sydes of their hedde.
1581 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 345 Castell with ye falling sydes. Tree with shyldes.
1628 P. Smart Vanitie Popish Cerem. 33 I trow there are but two sides of a long table, and two ends.
1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa IV. ii. vi. 546 The credulous Nymph..conceal'd a Lampe by hir Bedds side.
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 71/2 He..fastened these Beams..each with two braces..bound round and fastened of opposite sides.
1794 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. 69 They seldom use any overlays or outriggers, either at the ends or sides [of a waggon].
1847 W. C. L. Martin Ox 138/1 The sides of the tongue become gangrenous.
1886 S. Baring-Gould Court Royal I. iii. 37 My boots are scat at the sides.
1931 C. R. Shaw Nat. Hist. Delinquent Career vii. 128 The cattle cars were old and many boards were missing from the tops and sides.
1954 R. Wailes Eng. Windmill ii. 28 Down one side of the ladder there was sometimes a sack slide.
2005 Dwell Oct. 90/1 The entry door is set into the side of the house rather than the front.
8.
a. With reference to a spherical or rounded object: a part of the surface as viewed or considered from a particular direction; spec. (a) a particular part or region of the earth; (b) a part of a celestial object facing in a particular direction, or having a particular aspect, esp. with regard to light from the sun.See also dayside n. 1, nightside n. 1.Early use with reference to parts or regions of the earth may not imply conceptualization of the earth as spherical.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [noun] > part having particular aspect
sideOE
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surface > [noun] > of a circular or spherical body > having a particular aspect
sideOE
OE Ælfric De Temporibus Anni (Cambr. Gg.3.28) (2009) i. 78 Ðeah ðe seo sunne under eorðan..scine, þeah astihð hire leoht on sumere sidan þære eorðan þe ða steorran..onliht.
OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) ii. iii. 114 Æfre byð on sumere sidan þære eorðan dæg and on sumere sidan niht.
1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. i. 84 Our valiant Hamlet, For so this side of our knowne world esteemed him.
1658 J. Palmer Catholique Planisphær 212 The West side of the Moon looks duskish for 3. or 4. minutes longer.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 722 Look downward on that Globe whose hither side With light from hence, though but reflected, shines. View more context for this quotation
1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 326 I wish..you was..regular in letting me have the pleasure of knowing what passes on your side of the Globe.
1786 T. Baldwin Airopaidia iii. 18 Particular Care must be taken, that the Weight of the Aironaut be sustained, by grasping the Hands round the Opposite Sides of the upper Hoop.
1826 D. Booth Art of Brewing (ed. 2) 141 [Apples] with a tinge of red streaks on the sunny side.
1868 J. N. Lockyer Elem. Lessons Astron. §214 Hence we only see one side of our satellite [i.e. the moon].
1915 St. Nicholas June 684/2 My father wouldn't ever have to go away off again to the other side of the world.
1990 D. H. Menzel & J. M. Pasachoff Field Guide Stars & Planets viii. 348 The heavily cratered areas towards the south on the moon's near side.
2006 Esquire Sept. 59/1 In a newspaper article about ball-tampering, he admitted roughing up one side of a ball with a bottle top.
b. With reference to a more or less cylindrical or conical object: a part of the curved surface as viewed or considered from a particular direction. Also in plural: the curved external surface of a cylindrical or conical object (cf. sense 13).
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?1530 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry (rev. ed.) f. xlii Yf ye make a marke whiche syde of ye tree standes towarde ye sonne that he may be set so agayne, it is so moche the better.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. xli. 501 Of the right Trefoyle, or Treacle Clauer... The flowers grow from the sydes of the stalkes vpon long stemmes.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvii. xx. 525 Those superfluous water-shoots that spring out either from the root or the sides of the tree.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 85/2 Agarick, an Excrement or hard Mushroom, growing out of the sides of old Trees.
1710 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum II A Cone is called Scalenous when one side of it is longer than the other.
1748 T. Gray Ode Death Favourite Cat i, in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems II. 267 'Twas on a lofty vase's side.
1788 W. Cowper On Mischievous Bull 7 Wood-peckers explore the sides Of rugged oaks for worms.
1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xxiii. 281 The tube was inserted into the side of a cylindrical pipe.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1528/2 Nipple-seat, the hump on the side of a barrel on which the nipple is screwed.
1923 R. L. Hobson & A. L. Hetherington Art Chinese Potter Pl. XCVIII Bowl of conical form with rounded sides and pointed base.
1989 M. Kramer Making Sense of Wine vi. 112 One end of it [sc. a cork] is kept downright wet by the wine, assuming the bottle is laid on its side.
2011 L. Smith Contemp. Cake Decorating Bible 27 Carefully roll up the sugarpaste like a bandage then unroll it around the sides of the cake.
9. Either the port or starboard part of the hull of a ship or boat extending from stem to stern between the gunwale and the main-wale or the waterline.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > side(s) of vessel > [noun]
boardOE
sideOE
shipboardc1200
broadside1591
beama1665
OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Corpus Cambr.) v. ix. 412 Grim storm..þæt scyp forlet betwyh ða yðe on sidan [eOE Tanner in siðian, L. in latus] licgende.
OE Ælfric Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Claud.) vi. 16 Duru ðu setst be ðære sidan wiðneoðan, & ðu macast ðreo fleringa binnan ðam arce.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 1670 Quen þi timber es festend wele þou wind þe sides ilk dele.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 270/1 Syde of a bote, bort.
a1550 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (Sloane 1873) (1975) l. 3016 (MED) Such hete disseverith at certeyne tydes Maters clevynge to vessellis sides.
1578 W. Bourne Treasure for Traueilers iv. x. 21 The syde being rounde and full, it [sc. a ship] is the more boyenter a great deale.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. i. 32 Dangerous rocks, which touching but my gentle vessels side would scatter all her spices on the streame. View more context for this quotation
c1614 W. Mure tr. Virgil Dido & Æneas i. in Wks. (1898) I. 273 The tumbling billowes fast her syddes assaill.
1705 London Gaz. No. 4093/1 A French Man of War..came within Musket-shot along her side.
1795 Ld. Nelson Let. 7 Feb. in Dispatches (1845) II. 5 The Ships built at Toulon have their sides, beams, decks, and straight timbers from this Island.
1839 R. S. Robinson Naut. Steam Engine Explained 61 Great care is taken in fitting the pipes through the ship's sides.
1889 J. J. Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. 104 On the stronger sides of recent first-class battle ships..the combined thickness of this plating is 2¼ inches.
1932 R. Z. Gallun in Wonder Stories Q. Winter 241/2 The explosion rolled her completely over, and tore a jagged though not disabling hole in her side.
1940 C. S. Lewis Probl. of Pain x. 134 The clap-clap of water against the boat's side.
2001 Sea Breezes 75 355/3 Many more troops then put the scrambling nets over the side of the ship and climbed down on to the quay.
10. The sloping surface of a hill, mountain, etc.; such a surface having a particular aspect. Also: the face of a cliff.See also bankside n. 2, hillside n., mountainside n., etc.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill > [noun] > side
lithOE
sideOE
hillside?a1400
braea1500
bankside1586
sidehill1607
sidelanda1722
OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) ii. viii. 121 An cæster wæs geseted in þæs hean muntes sidan, & seo cæster wæs haten Casinum.
OE tr. Felix St. Guthlac (Vesp.) (1909) iv. 118 Þa wæs þær on oþre sidan þæs hlawas gedolfen swylce mycel wæterseað wære.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1295 Men seið ðat dune is siðen on Was mad temple salamon.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 2 Kings xiii. 34 Myche puple cam bi þe out weie: fro þe side of þe hil.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) x. 84 Ane vattir..That ran doun by the hillis syde, And wes rycht styth, bath deip & wyde.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 91 Hym list for to rest And bowet fro the batell to þe bonke side.
1553 T. Wilson Arte Rhetorique (1580) 176 The side of a bancke.
1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence ix. 285 A clough or clowgh, is a kynd of breach or valey down a slope from the syde of a hill.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 232 A Hill Torn from Pelorus, or the shatter'd side Of thundring Ætna. View more context for this quotation
1757 T. Gray Ode II i. i, in Odes 13 Down the steep of Snowdon's shaggy side.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 150 It is still overlooked by tremendous mountains; their sides covered with snow.
1811 J. Pinkerton Mod. Geogr. (ed. 3) 303 The eruptions rarely attain the summit [of Etna], but more usually break out at the sides.
1839 Bentley's Misc. 6 33 We..taught him how to put his feet steadily against the side of the cliff.
1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 715/1 In the Ionian Islands the currant-vine is grown on the sides of the lower hills.
1943 A. L. Rowse Diary 2 July (2003) 126 We scrambled down a steep side into Oswaldkirk.
1971 P. Berton Last Spike i. i. 9 Tunnels would be drilled through mountain barriers and galleries notched into the sides of cliffs.
2011 New Yorker 21 Nov. 94/3 Batlle drove up the side of the volcano in her off-road vehicle.
11.
a. The edge of, or the area of land adjacent to, a watercourse or body of water; a bank, a shore.Recorded earliest in seaside n. 1. See also burn-side n., riverside n., waterside n. 1, etc.Compare modern place names, as Humberside, Merseyside, Tayside, Teesside, etc., although see also note in etymology section.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bank > [noun] > of river
sidec1275
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bankc1303
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riversidea1425
brook-sidec1450
ripec1475
pleyc1503
riverbanka1522
burn-sidec1540
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wharf1603
watera1800
riva1819
brook-bank1861
riverine1864
hag1886
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12807 Bi þere sæ-side [c1300 Otho see-syde] þet lond he weste wide.
c1330 Horn Child 54 in J. Hall King Horn (1901) 179 Alle her pray to schip þai bere In clifland bi tese side.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xiii. ii. 650 By ryuers sydes put water is sone yfounde.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 65 (MED) There be monye deipe places of waters nye to the sydes of the sees.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ix. xiii. 28 Towartis the ryveris syde alaw.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 90 All backeward [they] hom bere to þe buerne side Þat fer from þe flode might no freke wyn.
1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Comm. Notable Thinges in tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 313 If they chance to finde a man in the waters side he wil eate him all.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 289 By some cleere Riuer's lilly-paued side.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 103 Let 'em..Range the Forrest, by the silver side Of some cool Stream. View more context for this quotation
1748 H. Ellis Voy. Hudson's-Bay 170 By the Sides of Lakes and Rivers there is abundance of wild Rice.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 160 The place of meeting..is always by the side of some lake or river.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 28 As her light skiff approached the side.
1862 J. Goldie Diary 5 May in J. H. Beattie Pioneers explore Otago (1947) 98 I resolved to scramble along the side of the lake.
1908 K. Grahame Wind in Willows vii. 159 The two animals conducted him to the water's side..and paddled off down the backwater.
1969 Mycologia 61 769 Tundra soils collected in Barrow and at the side of Lake Peters.
2005 Cheshire Life Aug. 266/3 A mill once stood on the side of the canal.
†b. The edge or outskirts of a wood, town, etc. Chiefly with modifier. Also in plural in same sense. Obsolete.Recorded earliest in woodside n. See also town-side n. at town n. Compounds 1b, forest-side n. at forest n. Compounds 1a(a), etc.Earlier currency of this sense is probably implied by beside prep. 1c.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [noun] > part near the edges or borders
sidec1300
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purlieus1577
outskirta1599
selvage1650
skirting1764
c1300 (?c1225) King Horn (Cambr.) (1901) l. 1024 (MED) His folk he dude abide Vnder wude side.
c1330 (?c1300) Amis & Amiloun (Auch.) (1937) l. 927 (MED) He mett þe leuedi..Vnder an orchard side.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 956 Þe rayn rueled adoun, ridlande þikke, Of felle flaunkes of fyr..Swe aboute Sodamas and hit sydez alle.
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 963 In his wey it happed hym to ryde..vnder a Forest syde.
c1450 Bi a Wode (Calig.) in J. O. Halliwell Select. Minor Poems J. Lydgate (1840) 228 By a wylde wodes syde As I walked myself alone.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cci Vnder a woodes side, thei couertly espied them passe forward.
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. i. 119 Vnderneath the groue Sicamoure, That Westward rooteth from the Citties side.
1640 W. Habington Hist. Edward IV 83 The Earle labouring to escape, at a Woods side where was no passage.
1691 N. Crouch Delightful Fables xiv. 56 Contrives How he [sc. a Wolf] by some device Might from the Flock a single Sheep To the Woods side intice.
1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1885) I. 242 Next Bray-Wood side.
a1771 T. Gray Elegy in Wks. (1816) I. 121 Him have we seen the greenwood side along.
1844 Tale of Hamlet 23 A lonely maid, that by those greenwood sides Since Henry's departure often glides.
1885 ‘E. Douglas’ Bloody Heart in Queen of Hid Isle xxi. 126 He bade him bide That day at noon-scape hour by the weald-side His coming.
12.
a. Each of the straight lines or flat surfaces forming the boundary of a rectilinear figure, or of an object, structure, etc., corresponding in shape to such a figure, as the three edges of a triangle, the four edges of a square, the six faces of a cube, etc. Also in extended use.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [noun] > rectilinear figure or shape > side or surface of
sidea1398
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. iii. xvii. 108 A round schap haþ no sidis wiþ corneres.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 2215 All þe sidis of þe cite þat sechus had biggid.
1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Gvii Neuer a one of them all hath of anye syde lesse then xx. myles of grounde, and of som syde also muche more.
1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. i. f. 30v Not euery figure hauing three angles hath also onely three sides.
1628 P. Smart Vanitie Popish Cerem. 33 Make it [sc. the table] square, and then it will haue foure sides, and no end, or foure ends and no side.
1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. i. 18 Of equiangle triangles, the sides that are about equall angles are proportionall.
1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. ii. §60. 353 Again, in the Triangle M P N, the Sides P M, P N being given,..the Base M N is found.
1774 M. Mackenzie Treat. Maritim Surv. 2 Having two Sides and an Angle opposite to one of them, to find another Angle.
1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. 254 A ray of light after its emergence from such a crystal acquires sides.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxvi. 609 A large window, with three sides of glass abutting from the gable.
1857 ‘G. Eliot’ in Westm. Rev. Jan. 37 On its theoretic and preceptive side, morality touches Science; on its emotional side, Art.
1939 National Math. Mag. 13 338 The projections of M upon the sides of the square are the vertices of a quadrangle.
1985 Polit. Theory 13 19 These first-wave thinkers considered the bureaucratic state, capitalism, and the patriarchal family to be three sides of an iron triangle of women's oppression.
2006 D. G. Schwartz Roll Bones ii. 25 Archaeologists have found Greek dice with fourteen, eighteen, and even twenty sides.
†b. Mathematics. = root n.1 15a. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [noun] > root
root?c1425
surd1557
radix?a1560
side1570
radical1714
the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > numerical arrangement > [noun] > set > sequence > series > of polygonal numbers > sum of
side1570
1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. cjv Make a Sphaere or Globe, precisely, of a Diameter aequall to the Radicall side of the Cube.
1679 J. Moxon Math. made Easie 38 Cube Root, the Root or Side of the third Power: So if 27 be the Cube, 3 is the Side or Root.
1746 T. Crosby Arithmetician's Guide 287 Powers..are nothing else but Products, arising from a continual Multiplication, of any assumed Side or Root.
1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 490/2 The same geometrical analogies by which a number multiplied by itself was called a square, procured for the number itself the name of side.
c. Mathematics. The final term of the arithmetic progression defining a given polygonal number; the number of dots forming each side of the representation of a given polygonal number as dots arranged in the form of a polygon. Cf. polygonal adj. 2.
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1717 P. Ronayne Treat. Algebra i. 208 The Side of the Polygon is always equal to the Number of Terms that compose it.
1795 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. at Polygonal Numbers The Side of a Polygonal number is the number of points in each side of the Polygonal figure when the points in the number are ranged in that form.
1803 C. Hutton tr. J. Ozanam & J. E. Montucla Recreations in Math. & Nat. Philos. I. i. iv. 44 The quotient 8 will be the radix or side of the triangular number 36.
1884 J. Gow Hist. Greek Math. iv. 103 The side of each such polygon is 2.
1931 T. L. Heath Man. Greek Math. iii. 50 The annexed figure shows a square with side 7 divided into four equal ‘oblong’ numbers.
1973 New Scientist 6 Sept. 580/2 A row of 5 dots added at the bottom results in the next triangular number with 5 as the side.
2010 A. Meskens Travelling Math. iii. 49 He intends to demonstrate..how to construct a polygonal number of a given type, given its side.
13. Any of the more or less vertical interior surfaces that enclose or bound an open space or form the edges of a hollow object. Also (esp. in plural): the whole vertical interior surface of a rounded or cylindrical object (cf. sense 8b).
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surface > [noun] > serving to enclose a space or hollow
sidea1525
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [noun] > that which encloses > an enclosing surface
sidea1525
a1525 ( Coventry Leet Bk. (1908) II. 389 Þat the dryver of the Bochours Carre..throwe his intrelles and oþer stuffe..in myddes of þe pitte & not be þe sides.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 173 In the bankes and sides of these Ponds, you must haue Busshes and Creeke holes.
1611 Bible (King James) 1 Sam. xxiv. 3 Dauid and his men remained in the sides of the caue. View more context for this quotation
1651 J. French tr. J. R. Glauber Descr. New Philos. Furnaces ii. 128 The Tartar water being strained, let it stand for 24. or 30. houres without stirring, and there will stick a crystallised Tartar to the sides of the vessel.
1702 Mil. & Sea Dict. (at cited word) Sides of Horn-works..and such-like Out-works..are the Ramparts and Parapets that enclose them on the Right and Left from the Gorge to the Head.
1810 J. Baillie Let. 8 Aug. (1999) I. v. 268 I..have..an impression of Fingals Cave, its lofty roof, pillar'd sides & pavement of ruddy marble carpetted by the waves.
1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem.: Org. (1862) vi. §2. 475 A mirror-like coating of reduced silver is formed on the sides of the vessel.
1868 Ld. Tennyson Lucretius 253 The very sides of the grave itself shall pass.
1878 T. Hardy Return of Native III. v. ix. 236 The sides of the pool were of masonry, to prevent the water from washing away the bank.
1907 A. M. Banta Fauna of Mayfield's Cave 10 In many places along the sides of the cave there are deposits of soil which extend almost to the roof.
1948 R. M. Pearl Pop. Gemol. vii. 262 A Frenchman coated the inner side of a hollow sphere of opalescent glass with parchment sizing.
1952 H. R. Axelrod Trop. Fish as Hobby iii. 59 The Kissing Gourami [is]..so named for the unusual shape of its mouth when eating or sucking debris from the sides of the tank.
2010 D. Bucholz Unoffic. Harry Potter Cookbk. 73 Use a rubber spatula to scrape the sides and bottom and fold the mixture together.
** Either of the two broad surfaces of a thin, flat object.
14. gen. Either of the two broad surfaces of a thin, flat object, as a disc, slice, sheet, etc. Also in various phrases with reference to a coin: see Phrases 3c.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surface > [noun] > one surface of a thing having two
sidea1382
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. xxxii. 15 Beryng in honde: two tablis of testymonye, writen on eyþer syde.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. iv. iv. 141 Þe aier schulde worthe afire and brenne þe vttir side of þe erþe.
c1450 Med. Recipes (BL Add. 33996) in F. Heinrich Mittelengl. Medizinbuch (1896) 141 Make an oynement þer of, and anoynte þe sore þer wyþ, & ley aweybrode lef aboue þe bak syde toward þe sore.
1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xxxii. f. 282v I haue bought a pleyeng tabull: with .XII. poyntis on the one syde: and chekers on the other syde.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. vii. sig. Kv I knowe on whiche syde my breade is buttred.
1650 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica (ed. 2) v. ix. 209 A silver Medall;..upon one side Moses horned, and on the reverse the commandment against sculptile Images.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ix. 97 To make a Welch-Rabbit. Toast the Bread on both Sides.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxix. 458 Trembling Poplar or Asp has leaves..smooth on both sides.
1816 R. Sainthill Let. 11 June in E. Thomason Mem. (1845) I. 89 All classical authors lay it down as a rule absolute, that the inscription on both sides of a medal should be in the same language.
1837 B. D. Walsh in tr. Aristophanes Knights in Comedies 212 (note) A tile is provided,..black on one side, and white on the other.
1866 Sci. Amer. 21 Apr. 270/1 The pistons attached to the facing sides of the two disks.
1902 N.Y. Tribune 27 July ii. 6/2 Two eggs fried on one side only.
1941 N.Y. Amsterdam Star-News 19 July 8/4 (advt.) Toast one side full and toast other side partially. To this side lay sliced cheese and grill same under broiler.
2006 D. G. Schwartz Roll Bones ii. 23 Heads or tails is also known as ‘cross and pile’, after an old French coin that had a cross on one side and a pillar on the other.
15.
a. Either surface of a piece of paper. Formerly also: †a leaf of a book, manuscript, etc., comprising both surfaces (obsolete). Cf. page n.2 1a.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > writing > written text > layout > [noun] > one side of sheet of paper
side?1473
pagec1485
society > communication > book > leaves or pages of book > [noun] > leaf
leafOE
pagec1485
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?1473 W. Caxton in tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. Pref. lf. 1 And on that other side of this leef foloweth the prologe.
1528 Will of Anthony Chew or Chio (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/23) f. 123 Because here is noo space to fyrme on this side we haue fyrmed on the other side.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 270/1 Syde of a boke that is written, pagee.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 8 Asheete of paper Writ a both sides the leafe.
1627 J. Mayer Ecclesiastica Interpretatio 306 It was a booke containing the things herein reuealed, which were so many, as that they could not bee set downe without writing on both sides of each leafe, and not on one side onely.
a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 10 To write but on one side of the leaf, leaving the other for any after-thoughts.
1676 A. Marvell Mr. Smirke sig. C3v One of his sides in Quarto, for Falshood, Insolence, and Absurdity contains a Book in Folio.
1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 22 Nov. (1948) II. 419 I'll say no more on this side the paper.
1753 Mem. Charles Goodville II. xlv. 233 She replied..I am under too much Concern to tell you—and giving him the Paper, said, read the third Paragraph on that Side.
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. 529 (note) They are gratified to see that M. Latreille has adopted this term in the work quoted on the other side.
1855 C. Dickens Let. 27 Jan. (1993) VII. 512 I shall still look forward to the large sides of paper, and shall soon feel disappointed if they don't begin to reappear.
1895 Bookman Oct. 12/1 A small volume of some forty-seven pages, printed on one side only.
1964 E. A. D. Hutchings Printing by Letterpress I. viii. 125 The Miehle perfector has been the standard bookwork machine for many years, printing both sides of the sheet in one operation.
2007 A. Theroux Laura Warholic xxiv. 347 She still sent him letters on frayed pages..and always inkily written on both sides.
b. The material written or printed on one surface of a (usually loose or unbound) piece of paper; an amount of text corresponding to this. Cf. page n.2 1b.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > writing > written text > [noun] > piece or quantity of
i-writeOE
writlOE
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scripta1350
writingc1384
letterc1390
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M1899
society > communication > printing > printed matter > [noun] > sheet or page of
side1579
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page1743
1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 241 He rehearseth halfe a side of M. Iewels wordes.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 141 I will adde one side concerning Paradice, and then will goe on without digression.
1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xix. 104 We thought you should have written a Side upon that Subject at least.
1771 Ld. Melbourne Let. in E. Steele Mem. Sophia Baddeley (1787) II. 46 Don't think I love you less, because I do not write you four sides of paper.
1818 C. Wolfe Let. 28 Jan. in Dublin Univ. Mag. (1842) Nov. 631/2 Here have I written three sides without coming to the matter in hand.
1865 Church of People Oct. 289 They [sc. Essays] varied in length from a few sides to some eighty or ninety of post or foolscap.
1971 New Scientist 8 Apr. 92/2 Professor J. K. Page..began the proceedings with a long, detailed paper (reduced to a few sides and a chat in actuality).
2014 A. Bateman et al. AS & A2 Media Stud. (ed. 2) 215 You are unlikely to score well if you have written two sides or less, but ten sides suggests a lack of depth and detail.
c. Theatre. A page of typescript containing the lines of a particular character together with the cue words. Usually in plural.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > written or printed text > [noun] > script > part of
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1919 Theatre Mag. Feb. 96/2 These plays come from the broker in the form of typewritten parts, no one, except the director, receiving the complete play. As these parts are typed only upon one side, they are called ‘sides’ and in speaking of them an actor always says that he has so many sides this week.
1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage iii. 37 An experienced actor, being offered a part, is unimpressed by the number of ‘sides’ it contains, a ‘side’ being a half-quarto sheet of typescript.
1963 ‘E. McBain’ Ten Plus One (1964) vii. 73 ‘She had memorized all of her sides—’ Richardson paused here to see whether or not anyone had caught his use of the professional term ‘sides’..—‘in the first two nights of rehearsal.’
2004 A. Reilly Actor's Business 108 When you are called for an audition for a specific role, pick up the sides as soon as they are available.
16. Either surface of a fabric or garment; also in figurative contexts. Chiefly with preceding qualifying adjective, esp. right, wrong, or reverse. Occasionally without qualification: that surface which is intended to be visible, as contrasted with the underside. Cf. right side n. 5, wrong side at wrong adj. 10.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > [noun] > right side of
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1511–12 Act 3 Henry VIII c. 6 in Statutes of Realm (1963) III. 28 The Walker..shall not rowe..Clothe..with any Cardes on the right side nor of [sic] the wrong side.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. ii. 150 Some such squire he was, That turnd your wit, the seamy side without. View more context for this quotation
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 165 He had upon his upper Garment, some black Sheep-skin, the woolly side out.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Clear-starching Afterwards iron them over upon your Ironing-Cloth, upon the wrong Sides.
1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France I. 30 Nothing..can compare with the beauty of these velvets, or with the art necessary to produce such an effect, while the wrong side is smooth, not struck through.
1861 Amer. Agriculturist Jan. 21/1 The next and long succeeding alternate row must be purled, the stitch looking like the wrong side of a stocking.
1876 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. (new ed.) III. 2172/1 Side,..the surface on the right or dressed side of cloth.
1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi liv. 536 We all struggled frantically into our clothes,..getting them wrong-side-out and upside-down.
1926 People's Home Jrnl. Feb. 12/2 She whipped the garment right side out and held its loveliness to view.
1964 McCall's Sewing in Colour 168/1 The true roll-up sleeve..must be made of fabric with no right and wrong side.
2004 Piecework Jan. 12/2 A counted-thread technique worked with fine, solid-color threads in darning stitch on the reverse side of even-weave fabric.
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a. Either of the two faces of a gramophone record. Later also: either of two audio tracks, or pairs of tracks, recorded along a length of magnetic tape; (hence) the face of an audio cassette corresponding to this. Cf. A-side n. at A n. Compounds, B-side at B n. 4b(f), flip side n. at flip n.2 Compounds.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record or disc > side
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1926 Melody Maker May 47/1 On the reverse side is ‘In Ukulele Avenue’, also by the same band.
1952 Life 17 Nov. 101/1 Edison made and sold some 12-inch hill-and-dale cut disks capable of playing 22 minutes of music on a side.
1971 D. E. Westlake I gave at Office 133 There was some tape left. Tape three, side two, the one just before this.
1988 Which? Dec. 581/1 Auto-reverse..automatically plays the other side of the cassette when the end of a side is reached.
1991 Hindu (Madras) 6 Dec. 18/3 Side B has M. S. Viswanathan himself rendering a beautiful song ‘Allikkeni Mannan’.
2003 J. Dawson & S. Propes 45 RPM viii. 55 Rock 'n' roll companies typically put an uptempo song on one side of a 45 single and a ballad on the other.
b. The music or other audio material recorded on this. Also (chiefly Jazz colloquial): a recording of one song or piece of music; a track (usually in plural).
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1930 N.Y. Times 25 May 8 x/2 Columbia has re-pressed two sides from Boris Godunoff, recorded as part of a comprehensive set by the Paris Opera.
1935 Down Beat Apr. 5/2 Joe Venuti and his blue four made four sides for Decca last week.
1958 E. Gilbert Vice Trap v. 42 He put on a Shorty Rogers side and we had another beer.
1961 Billboard 11 Dec. 23/1 The second side is a catchy rhythm item sung with flavor.
1993 Osho Everyday Meditator 153 You can play different pieces each time or..just put the tape on and listen to a whole side.
2008 P. G. Allen in H. D. S. Wong et al. Reckonings 9 Someone in the dorm was playing some sides, some stuff like I'd never heard.
III. A direction, position, or area relative to the centre or to another direction, position, or area, and related senses.
18. A direction or position relative to a central person, object, or point; a point of the compass. Chiefly in prepositional phrases; see also Phrases 1f(b).See also north side n., south side n., east side n., west side n.
a. Without complement specifying the central object, point, etc. (as on the eastern side).In quot. 1838 in figurative context. †of all sides: in or from all directions (obsolete); cf. on all sides at Phrases 1f(b).
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eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) xlvii. 2 (3) Dilatans exultationis uniuersae terrae, mons sion latera aquilonis ciuitas regis magni : gebradende wynsumnisse alre eorðan se munt sion on sidan no[r]ðdaeles cestre cyninges ðes miclan.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10865 Þer walleð of þan mæren a moniare siden..sixti wateres.
c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 631 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 124 So þat respit was þar-of I-nome, and ech wende In his side.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Ezek. xxxviii. 15 Shalt cum of thi place, fro sydis of the northe, thou, and many peplis with thee.
?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 273 (MED) Whateuere syde þou turne þee..þou schalt fynde synne and offencis.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 5021 Bot þi sire soile in na side see sall þou neuire.
c1475 (a1400) Sir Amadace (Taylor) in J. Robson Three Early Eng. Metrical Romances (1842) 43 On summe side wille hit falle... Sum curtas mon ȝette may he fynde.
1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War v. vii. f. cxl He was mynded for to haue made one [walle] on the syde that was towardes the coste of Achaia.
1569 T. Stocker tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Successors Alexander ii. xxxvi. 84 He entrenched it [sc. a castle] on that side it was siegeable, and gaue many assauts.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 30 Troytowne is fired of al sydes.
1673 J. Milton Psalm LXXX in Poems (new ed.) 145 Her branches on the western side Down to the Sea she sent.
1686 tr. J. Chardin Coronation Solyman 38 in Trav. Persia Thus the Apartment is open of all sides.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xvi. 467 A Fire, with a few Boughs before it, set up on that side the wind was of.
1777 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip II II. xxiii. 348 He found it necessary to approach the town on that side, on which there lay a wood or forest.
1785 W. Cowper Task v. 150 Lamps gracefully dispos'd, and of all hues, Illumin'd ev'ry side.
1796 C. R. Hopson tr. C. P. Thunberg Trav. (ed. 3) II. 136 Having arrived at the top from the eastern side we observed a place called the Company's Cellar.
1830 G. Concanen Rep. Trial Rowe v. Benton p. xxxii The farm-house..is bounded, on the southern side, by the Lamellyn fields.
1838 T. B. Macaulay in G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay (1876) II. vii. 9 On that side he multiplied his precautions, and set double watch.
1905 S. E. Dawson St. Lawrence p. xxix On the southern side the valley is invaded by an extension of the Appalachian system, known as the Green and White Mountains.
1968 Landfall 22 390 Someone had taken down the Taranaki gate on the side that led to the Oteranika Road.
2010 A. J. Lagana Me Island ii. xxxi. 453 About an acre's length off to the eastern side, was a modest one story building.
b. With of-phrase specifying the central object, point, etc. (as on the eastern side of the house). Also with noun complement without of (as on the eastern side the house) (now rare).
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a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 1628 (MED) Þer were piȝt pauilounns..bi o side of þe cite for swiþe moche pepul.
?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 153 (MED) At o syde of the Emperours table sitten many Philosofres.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 1200 All þe bestaill..Þat he miȝt se on any syde þe cite of Gadirs.
1462 in J. T. Gilbert Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) I. 314 The gardeyn that ys on the north syd of the yat.
1516 Kalendre Newe Legende Eng. (Pynson) f. lxxxviiiv One Shryne on the southe syde of the hygh Aulter at Glastonbury.
1560 J. Knox Answer Great Nomber Blasphemous Cauillations 199 Then began skirmyshes vpon euerie side of Geneua.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) ii. i. 47 On the East side of the Groue. View more context for this quotation
1651 R. Child Large Let. in S. Hartlib Legacie 31 Vines grow three score miles on this side Paris.
1719 N. Rowe in tr. Lucan Pharsalia Notes 46 He places both this River [i.e. Lethe] and the Hesperian Gardens in the Region of Cyrene, on the Eastern Side of the Syrtis Major.
1759 R. Gardiner Acct. Exped. W. Indies 10 On the North Side of it [sc. Martinique] lie three small Islands.
1816 Sir H. Davy in Faraday's Exp. Res. (1859) 4 Vestiges of extinct volcanoes exist in all the low countries on the western side of the Appennines.
1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem.: Org. (1862) i. §3. 59 Oxidizing actions are in constant operation unperceived on every side of us.
1945 Life 15 Oct. 68/2 Stretching on every side of me was unbroken snow.
2003 Holiday Which? Spring 76/1 On the western side of Melbourne, Hanging Rock is a craggy cluster made famous by Joan Lindsay's book.
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a. The specified one of two possible directions, positions, or areas relative to a person, object, space, or line, e.g. left or right of, north or south of, etc.; either of two contrasting or complementary directions, positions, or areas. Chiefly in prepositional phrases.
(a) Without complement specifying the central object, line, etc. (as on this side, on both sides, from the left side). †of one side: in one direction (obsolete); cf. on one side at Phrases 1f(f).
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the world > space > direction > [noun]
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the world > space > direction > [noun] > space lying in any direction from a point
sideOE
the world > space > direction > [noun] > direction to either side of something
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the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > alongside [phrase] > on each side
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the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [noun] > fact of having distinct sides > one or other side or hand
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > lateral boundary
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the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [noun] > fact of having distinct sides > one or other side or hand > space lying to either hand
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OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxxi. 439 Þeos ðridde India hæfð on anre sidan þeostru & on oþre ðone grimlican garsecg.
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Hatton 115) xxi. 200 Seo [dene] wæs weallende mid anðræcum ligum on anre sidan, on oðre sidan mid hagole and grimlicum cyle.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 5973 Þa aras heom a wind a þere wiðer side.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13597 Þa sænde heo a ba siden al þa men auoten.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Ezek. xli. 19 Cherub hadde two faces, a face of man bysijdis the palme of this syde, and a face of lyoun bysydis a palme expressid on the tothersyde.
a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) xxxiii. 107 Þenne þe lorde shulde take vppe þe hertes heede by þe reght syde.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 1520 He..sammes þaim on aithire side with silken rapis.
c1453 (c1437) Brut (Harl. 53) 571 They stode on þe lifte syde; and al þat abode within the toun stode on þe right syde.
a1500 Lytylle Childrenes Lytil Bk. (Harl. 541) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 20 Whan þou etyst, gape not to wyde That þi mouth be sene on yche a syde.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 101 Vndir this brench ran doun a revir bricht..Quhair did vpone the tother syd persew A nychtingall.
1568 T. Hacket tr. A. Thevet New Found Worlde xx. f. 31v The fish..is found about seuen or eight leagues on this side and beyonde the [Equinoctiall] lyne.
1584 A. Barlowe in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) iii. 730 Onely the women weare their haire long on both sides, and the men but on one.
1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. D2v Stately trees (some toppes wherof the winde seemeth to wreathe and turne at one side).
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 51 Taurus divideth it in the middest: On the North side is that which is called Asia interior.
1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xxxi. 299 The strength..of the two lights..on this side, and on that side the point of concurse.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 649 Before the Gates there sat On either side a formidable shape. View more context for this quotation
1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 169 The middle Shoot..is found..to lean of one Side a little.
1746 P. Francis tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles i. xvii. 73 He, who hears him, chaunts on t'other Side, With me your Bounty, ah! with me divide.
1782 W. Cowper Hope in Poems 160 Suppose the beam should dip on the wrong side.
1792 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina (new ed.) iii. ii. 322 The..governor's or commandant's house..is flanked on each side by buildings for the officers and barracks for the garrison.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. x. 165 A few archers..flanking with their shot the wall of the castle on that side.
1823 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War I. 415 The altars on either side had their respective relics.
1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 458/1 The American car has a gangway lengthwise of the car, the seats on each side reversible.
1939 Street & Smith's Western Story Mag. 23 Sept. 36/2 The Mex crowd on the other side's trying the same thing.
1984 D. Koontz Darkfall ii. vi. 288 From this side, the door was unlocked.
2012 J. Ludrup Feng Shui iii. 46 The building on the left side as you look forward should be higher than the building on the right side.
(b) With of-phrase specifying the central object, line, etc. (as on this side of the border). Also with noun complement without of (as on this side the border) (now rare).In quots. OE and a1300 with genitive.
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OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1900) II. 240 On ane healfe þæs mynstres wæs an ormæte clif.., and seo deope ea Liger gehaten læg on oðre sidan.
a1300 ( Declaration of Indulgences, Crediton, Devon in Britannica: M. Förster zum Sechzigsten Geburtstage (1929) 115 Of hoþer archebischopes and bissopes on þisser side þas mountes on walelondes.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) (1850) Apoc. xxii. 2 In the mydle of the street of it, and on ech sijde of the flood, [was] the tree of lijf.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6263 (MED) Þe see on aiþer side þam stod Als walles tua, quils þai for yod.
a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 5415 Þe devels on ilk syde þam sal stande.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. lxxxvi. 110 Than sir Aymery drewe his people alonge on the dykes within the barryers, and the archers redy on bothe sydes the way.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxiij On the other hand or syde of the gate, was set a pyller.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. clxxxviijv Thre dayes Iorney on this syde Uenise.
1584 A. Barlowe in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) iii. 732 There descendeth into this Occam, another riuer, called Nomopana, on the one side whereof standeth a great Towne, called Chowanoake.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. ix. 1 Set we our Squadrons on yond side o' th' Hill.
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 33 A river, of whose banks On each side an Imperial City stood. View more context for this quotation
1673 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 53 Since you are on that side ye water.
1745 W. Smith Nat. Hist. Nevis ii. 40 We travelled upon this narrow Rim, with a frightful Precipice on each side of us, for the space of three hundred yards.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. xiii. 278 On the other Side the Willows. View more context for this quotation
1782 W. Cowper Hist. John Gilpin in Public Advertiser 14 Nov. And there he threw the Wash about On both Sides of the Way.
1804 R. Southey in Ann. Rev. 2 6 Ruy Falero wanted to bring the Moluccas on the Spanish side of the line of demarcation.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Lady of Shalott i., in Poems (new ed.) 8 On either side the river lie Long fields of barley and of rye.
1868 J. N. Lockyer Elem. Lessons Astron. (1879) iii. 65 At 23½° on either side of the equator are the Tropics.
1887 J. R. Lowell Democracy & Other Addr. 46 This outburst of feeling on both sides the sea.
1934 E. MacManus Hosp. Admin. for Women ii. iii. 65 The Sister should stand on one side of the bed, the House Officer on the other.
1962 E. Wilson Jrnl. in Sixties: Last Jrnl. (1993) 112 I did, however, find the strange flowers on the pond on the left side of the road.
1966 Listener 10 Feb. 210/3 One man with his back to you, this side the table.
2013 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 16 Aug. 11 Scots are different from each other, depending on which side of the Highland line..they originated.
b. figurative. Either of two contrasting states, conditions, periods of time, etc., regarded as divided by a significant event or circumstance; spec. life as opposed to the afterlife, and vice versa. Cf. other side n. 3.See also right side n. 7, wrong side at wrong adj. 10.
(a) Without complement.
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a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 92 (MED) All suche as lyven in the delites of this worlde haue their paradise forthwithall in the same, saying that he promysith non othir thing beyonde but suche delicate thingis as may be founde on this side.
1641 in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 288 I know he is fast riveted on that side, if the Commons give him not a jostle.
1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 16 But I had a farther Obligation laid on me on the same Side.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III Prol. in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 237/2 He who has O'er the grave been forced to pass To the other side.
1869 Ld. Tennyson Coming of Arthur 396 Not ever to be question'd any more Save on the further side.
1901 H. Marschner From Death to Life xxii. 285 Since hypnotism, that is, the being possessed by a person living on this side, is scientifically true, a still more spiritual hypnotism, a being possessed by a person living beyond, is an unavoidable inference.
1981 W. Bronk Life Supports 63 Mornings, we look back on sleep and see it from another side.
2008 P. Rinzler Contradict. Jazz xvi. 178 When we come across a problem,..our personal abilities, limitations, and inclinations will lead us through to the other side, smoothly or not.
(b) With of-phrase as complement. Also with noun complement without of (now rare). Cf. on this side of at Phrases 1f(e).
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1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 295 [My heart] keepes on the windy side of Care. View more context for this quotation
1676 I. Walton Compl. Angler (ed. 5) xxi There be as many miseries beyond riches, as on this side them.
1710 R. Ward Life H. More 234 There is nothing absolutely or completely Perfect on this Side Heaven.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 40. 220 Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side the Grave.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian viii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 229 She's not to be forgotten on this side of time.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xiv. 132 The earth-side of the grave.
1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. II. vi. 167 That's all we may expect of man, this side The grave.
1910 R. Hughes Gift-wife iv. 47 Hovering a little this side of sleep, his drowsy eyes saw..a distant tower of soaring stature, just visible in the dim light of daybreak.
1950 H. Nemerov Guide to Ruins 43 For he..would out-endure What interest they had, who..Had homes to go to, and a bed this side of death.
2007 M. A. Singer Untethered Soul xiv. 136 If you want permanent peace, permanent joy, and permanent happiness, you have to get through to the other side of the inner turmoil.
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a. A region or part of a place lying in a specified direction from the centre. Frequently with of-phrase as complement.See also north side n., south side n., adj., and adv., east side n., west side n. and adj.; and cf. sense 18. from the east side to the west: = from east to west at east adv., adj., and n.1 Phrases 1.
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c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12234 I þere chireche..bi þere norð side [sat] Wenhæiuer þa quene.
c1300 St. Edmund Rich (Laud) l. 361 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 441 In alle halewene church-ȝerd, In þe norþure side [c1300 Harl. norþ side].
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 159 (MED) Þe Flemmynges þat woneþ in þe weste side of Wales haueþ ileft her straunge speche and spekeþ Saxonliche inow.
a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 4280 His lawes sal pas and his powere Fra þe est syde til þe west, thurgh þe world here.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 883 To þe este syde in england, Of þis prouynce þou ert ordaynd.
1577 R. Willes & R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Hist. Trauayle W. & E. Indies f. 233 All the whiche writers do..confirme the whole Easterne side of Asie to be compassed about with sea.
1613 J. Saris Jrnl. 28 Mar. in Voy. Japan (1900) 43 He was gone to the Wester side of the Iland.
1669 J. Childrey Let. 12 July in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1969) VI. 109 Colestone..is digged up in great plenty on the Northeast side of ye Island.
1834 W. G. Fearnside Tombleson's Thames 41 This latter stream passes on the eastern side of Oxford, through Magdalen Bridge.
1882 Cent. Mag. Dec. 198/2 Along the muddy river below the long southern side of the pueblo.
1946 I. A. Williams Flowers of Marsh & Stream 22 The pale or western butterwort, Pinguicula lusitanica.., which grows in peaty bogs along the western side of Britain.
1993 I. Welsh Trainspotting (1994) 278 Kelly is working behind the bar at a punter's pub in the South Side.
b. A region or part of a country, town, etc.; an area, a district, a neighbourhood. Formerly also: †the inhabitants of a region (obsolete). Now regional.See also countryside n.
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c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 11539 (MED) Þe erl of gloucetere was þe wule in mani wilde side.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 2115 All þe citis of þa sidis he sesis þam clene.
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 184 (MED) They weryn dwellynge in a syde of spayne whyche is callid basco.
1621 A. Cade Serm. Nature of Conscience 16 A terrour and a plague to the towne and side of a countrey where he dwels.
1646 G. Buck Hist. Life Richard III i. 8 In Cumberland.., where he much resided,..all that Northerne side generally honouring..his Deportment.
1763 W. Stukeley Palæographia Sacra 8 Rejoicing especially was the practice..at public sacrifice, which they call Panegyres; a meeting of a side of a county, a province.
1861 Blackwood's Mag. Oct. 513/1 What bring you dis side?
1968 Sunday Times 30 June 15/1 ‘An old man my side is better off than an old man here,’ he said. After 20 years, he still thought of Jamaica as ‘my side.’
2002 H. Igboanusi Dict. Nigerian Eng. Usage 252 No, I have not been to that side before.
c. Following a name or designation of a place: a specified region or area; also (and now chiefly) used adverbially with the sense ‘in, on, or towards the region or area specified’.Later frequently with reference to one region contrasted with another on the opposite side of a border, river, etc.See also Sydney-side n. at Sydney n. Compounds 1, earthside n., adv., and adj., stateside adj. and adv.
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c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 1092 (MED) Folk of yrland side, ȝour [printed zour] mirour ȝe may se.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) ii. 3387 If it so betide þat any thefe or feloun fle fro Inglond side to Scotlond regioun..þe courte may him quite o chance if he be nomen.
a1500 (a1400) Sir Cleges (Adv.) (1930) l. 87 (MED) He dwellyd be Kardyfe syde.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. xxxv The next daye..the forward passed a bridge..into Flaunders syde & there lay.
1664 in H. Dircks Life 2nd Marquis Worcester (1865) xviii. 329 Not only at Gloucester Side, but all the way to the west.
1688 W. Scot True Hist. Families 14 My Lord did ride, To the Woodhouslies on the Border-side; For Netherbie is in English ground, But the Woodhouslies is in Scotland.
1733 J. Bancks Poems on Several Occasions 139 His Dwelling was on London Side; Not far from where Thames rolls his Tide.
1788 E. Picken Poems & Epist. 176 I'm new come frae Dumbarton-side.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake ii. 81 The King's vindictive pride Boasts to have tamed the Border-side.
1898 N. Munro John Splendid xxxii. 329 He had been set on the slip by a wherry that had approached from Cowal side.
1924 E. M. Forster Passage to India xxxvii. 323 Jolly good poems, I'm getting published Bombay side.
1956 T. Ronan Moleskin Midas 77 With his beefhouse completed, he got himself a killer from the Twin Hills side.
1966 K. Giles Provenance of Death ii. 58 An Italian industrialist who does a lot of business Moscow-side.
2005 M. Booth Golden Boy iii. 57 My mother was invited out to a dinner party on Hong Kong-side.
2006 Cosmopolitan (U.K. ed.) Aug. 194 We asked Lonneke, face of Ralph Hot, to stay city-side and sent Alessia on a holiday break.
21.
a. Either of two parts of a building, room, etc., allocated to a particular category of person or to a particular purpose. Usually with modifier.In quot. 1340 figurative.common side, crown side, epistle side, etc.: see the first element. See also airside n., landside n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun]
side1340
area1839
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > side
side1340
return1625
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 151 Þes yefþe is priour ine þe cloystre of þe zaule... Verst ine þe herte [þet] heþ tuo zides.
1482 Indenture in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1910) 25 121 The Chaunters of the Queres of the Bretherne and Systerne Sydes of [Syo]ne aforeseid.
c1529 in Archaeologia (1884) 47 52 All the sayd ladyes bothe off the abbesse side and of the misericorde.
1598 R. Hakluyt tr. W. de Rubruquis in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 96 Next vnto the doore also on the womens side, there is another image with a cowes vdder, for the women that milke the kine.
1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. i. 69 For both the Greekes and Romanes..had commonly two Cloystered open Courts, one seruing for the Womens side, and the other for the Men.
1648 Moderate Intelligencer No. 195. 1785 The King of Hungarie approached the Altar with the Imperiall Princesse..setting himself on the Epistle-side.
1757 J. Ilive Reasons offered Reformation House Correction Clerkenwell xii. 47 He is not to suffer any Man..minded to visit the Prison, to go into the Womens Side... The like in Relation to letting Women go on the Mens Side.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 42 The former in what is called the crown-side or crown-office; the latter in the plea-side of the court.
1820 tr. M. Cottu On Admin. Criminal Code Eng. ii. 25 One of them takes his seat at the civil, the other at the criminal side.
1864 Knickerbocker Monthly Jan. 25/1 Abel Doane turned his handsome face very slightly towards the women's side of the meeting-house.
1919 Motor Age 24 Apr. 26/3 On the display side of the mezzanine floor, windows of some kind of translucent or opalescent glass will allow all the light necessary to pass to the parts bins.
a1969 G. M. Foster Pops Foster (1971) v. 64 Most saloons had two sides, one for whites and one for colored.
2005 J. Jung Revisionary Rhetoric p. xi I caused a food fight in the school cafeteria when I sat on the boys' side at lunch.
b. More generally: either of the two halves of any place, object, surface, etc., divided by an (imaginary) central line. Also figurative and in figurative contexts.
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the world > space > direction > [noun] > direction to either side of something > part
side1428
the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [noun] > fact of having distinct sides > one or other side or hand > part lying to either hand
winga1400
side1428
1428 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 81 To the wherk of the Ill of the toon side of the Cloistere in the Chirchehawe.
1537 R. Layton Let. in T. Wright Three Chapters Lett. Suppression Monasteries (1843) 156 To ryde downe one syde [of the country] and to cum up the other.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. ix. sig. Kiiiv Than were ye deafe, ye coulde not here on that syde.
1588 H. Oldcastle & J. Mellis Briefe Instr. Accompts sig. Cv The Creditor syde of this your first leafe, declareth in briefe sentences where the estate of your Chyst in money is bestowed.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. i. 45 The other side a'th City is risen: why stay we prating heere? View more context for this quotation
1657 Physical Dict. Hemicrania, or hemicrane, a kind of head-ach, when but one side of the head is grieved.
1686 Bp. G. Burnet Some Lett. conc. Switzerland iii. 164 There are whole sides of streets without Inhabitants.
1707 J. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 22) iii. xi. 386 One Side of it [sc. a school] stands upon great Stone Pillars, in a large Court.
1782 W. Cowper Progress of Error in Poems 68 He has no hearing on the prudent side.
1834 K. H. Digby Mores Catholici V. v. 134 It was the custom..for the men to be placed on one side of the church and the women on the other.
1886 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day (ed. 3) xl. 342 This side, on an afternoon in the season, is a place where fashionable ladies meet half their fashionable acquaintance.
1939 S. Bent Newspaper Crusaders ii. 35 St. Louis was taken out of political red ink and put on the credit side of the electoral ledger.
1958 D. C. Jarvis Folk Med. viii. 75 The ache [of a migraine] is on one side of the head.
2003 Y. B. Moore Triple Take xi. 113 You better not touch me. Keep your freaky ass on your side of the bed.
c. Either of the two parts of an equation that are separated by an equals sign. Also figurative: a factor, an aspect of something.
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1654 J. Newton Institutio Mathematica iii. 69 All the parts of the first side of this Equation are fractions, except AO and the two radii.
1685 J. Hawkins Cocker's Decimal Arithm. iii. xi. 338 Transposing −8 on the other side of the Equation, making it there +8, it giveth a = 28.
1720 J. Raphson & S. Cunn tr. I. Newton Universal Arithmetick 58 All other Terms are to be transpos'd to the other Side.
1780 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 70 390 Consequently q is equal to the product of all the roots under their own signs, when that quantity is on the other or right-hand side of the equation.
1831 Morning Post 22 Sept. 2/4 It was a complete destruction of the equilibrium of the State, and upon one side of the equation alone had the new material been placed.
1880 R. Potts Elem. Algebra XII. 61 The left side of this equation will become a complete square by the addition of b4.
1927 Monroe (Louisiana) News-Star 30 May 4/1 Balancing one side of an equation with the other, dealing with unknowns and clarifying problems which at first seem intricate are commonplace in the life of the average student.
1971 R. E. Robinson Developing Third World vi. 72 What was new to the discussion was the belief that for many countries, the agricultural side of the equation had been stressed too much for too long.
2013 J. Bartlett Becoming Outstanding Math. Teacher ix. 154 What would we need to do to the left-hand side to balance the equation?
d. Either of the left or right parts of a road or highway, with regard to its being reserved for ongoing or oncoming traffic. Cf. nearside n., offside n.1 2.Often with reference to the part used in countries where the system differs from one's own: cf. wrong adj. 10h.
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1791 J. Lackington Memoirs xxxvii. 288 Coal-carts..frequently running foul of us for being on the wrong side of the road.
1809 E. Christian Blackstone's Comm. I. 74 The law of the road, viz. that horses and carriages should..keep the left side of the road, and consequently..pass each other on the whip-hand.
1880 Christian Union 29 Sept. 262/1 Throughout this country the custom and the law for vehicles are, to drive on the right side.
1925 Times 23 Sept. 9/2 He was on the wrong side of the road and did not hear the hooter of an overtaking motor-car.
1975 G. L. Gropper Diagnosis & Revision in Developm. of Instructional Materials iii. 35/1 Learning to drive on the left-hand side of the street is likely to be more difficult for the person who has already learned to drive on the right-hand side.
2008 Daily News (Los Angeles) (Nexis) 16 July l7 I'm from Australia, where we drive on the other side. So I'm looking over the wrong shoulder.
22. A part or area away from a central point or line; a part near the edge (of something).
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [noun] > limit > condition close to limit
side?1387
margin1649
?1387 T. Wimbledon Serm. (Corpus Cambr.) (1967) 93 Ȝif a riche man haue a feld and a pore man haue in þe myddis or in syde þerof oon acre..he cesseþ neuere into þat he gete þat out of þe pore mannys hondis.
1447 Acct. in Berks, Bucks & Oxon Archæol. Jrnl. (1905) 11 118 (MED) Item, an Autr clothe steyned wt an ymage of the Trynyte yn the mydds, ymages of Seynt Clement & Seynt Laurans beyng in the sydes.
1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 40 The fyre is not put vnder the duble vessell..but at the syde of the fornace.
a1633 F. Godwin Man in Moone (1638) 82 All along the side of the roome stood a great number of goodly personages.
1672 P. L. Eng. Acad. 26 Clear it over with a fine linnen Rag, and be sure that you touch not a finger upon the side of the plate clear'd.
1762 Bk. Coach-rates 115 All Carts..shall stand..as close to the Side of the Street where they are loading and unloading as they can.
1802 G. Acerbi Trav. II. 171 To retire even a step from the fire-place towards the side of the hut is impossible, unless the body is quite bent down.
1867 Nation 30 May 433/1 A band, composed of the best singers..stand at the side of the room.
1925 Woman's World (Chicago) Apr. 8/1 She was sitting in front of me, a little to the side.
1979 B. Tudor Drawn from New Eng. x. 83 He also made a beautiful, large brick fireplace, including a built-in oven and ash pit at the side.
2007 L. Brown Miracle of Catfish 370 Jimmy didn't like cucumber, so he slid his to the side of his plate.
23. Chiefly North American. A relatively small portion of food served as an accompaniment to the main part of a meal or course, usually in a separate dish; a side dish, a side order. Also occasionally: an accompanying drink. Cf. on the side at Phrases 1f(k).In quot. 1847: a dish served before a main course; = entrée n. 1a.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > [noun] > dish > side-dish
entremet1477
by-dish1599
garnisha1640
side dish1702
side plate1714
side1847
banchan1938
side salad1940
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xlii. 381 If those sides, or ontrys, as she calls 'em, weren't served yesterday, I'm d—d.
1891 Boston Post 18 Dec. 3/5 (advt.) Our nice juicy steaks, potatoes, hot biscuits, butter, side of beans and coffee can't be beat.
1907 McClure's Mag. Apr. 666/1 My first customer this morning ordered a side of beans with a separate order of white bread.
1979 M. Sharp Sunflower iii. 28 After dinner..the thick, bittersweet Greek coffee, with a side of Metaxa brandy.
2002 Wall St. Jrnl. 10 June r8/1 There are about a dozen meal combos to choose from, and you can also order extra sides.
24. Billiards, Snooker, etc. Spin imparted to the cue ball by striking it off-centre, causing it to swerve or changing the angle of its course after it strikes another ball or bounces off a cushion. Frequently in to put side on (a ball).Compare earlier sidestroke n. 2.In North America known as English (English n. 8).
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > direction given to ball
side1858
English1861
1858 W. White Billiards 128 I do not feel satisfied of any writer being able to convey in diagrams the amount of side to put on a ball for canons when the side stroke is required.
1873 J. Bennett & ‘Cavendish’ Billiards 125 In putting on side, all that has to be done is to strike the ball on the side instead of in the middle.
1901 Q. Rev. Apr. 483 The mysteries of ‘side’ began to perplex players.
1969 V. Bartlett Past of Pastimes x. 133 Chalk on the tip of the cue made it possible to put on ‘side.’
2009 Leek (Staffs.) Post & Times (Nexis) 13 May 58 Flower looked set to respond in kind before missing his penultimate yellow ball in trying to force the cue around the angles with a large amount of side.
IV. One thing, group, point of view, etc., contrasted with or in relation to another.
25. That part of a family, or a person's ancestry, which represents a particular line of descent, esp. the line associated with a mother or father.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > [noun] > a line of descent > side
sideOE
part1558
OE Old Eng. Martyrol. (Corpus Cambr. 196) 26 June (2013) 126 Hig wæron acennede of Constantines sidan þæs myclan caseres, þæt ys of gestreonde.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 87 (MED) Alle we byeþ children of one moder, þet is of erþe..of þo zide non ne is ariȝt gentil ne vri.
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 120 (MED) Half sisters of þer fader syde wedd þai, bot noȝt of þer moder syde.
1442 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1442 §16. m. 11 Englissh of his moderside,..and aparte Englissh on his faderside.
1534 in J. Balfour Practicks (1754) 117 Thay cannot have ony agnat or kinnisman of the father's side.
a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Fourth Bk. Aeneas (1554) iv. sig. Bivv From his graundfather by the mothers syde. Cyllenes childe so came.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State ii. xxiv. 149 Gentilely born on both sides.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xxix. 113 Peradventure a kinswoman to one of you, by his side that begot me in this miserable exile.
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 132. ⁋8 He traced up his Descent on both Sides for several Generations.
1768 J. Cremer Jrnl. 19 July in R. R. Bellamy Ramblin' Jack (1936) 120 I was the old gentelman's Coussen by my father's Side.
1830 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 172/1 He was descended by his grandmother's side from the heroic Bruce.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. xi. 185 To be sure I am distantly related to the Rochesters by the mother's side.
1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss I. i. xii. 233 There's never a woman o' your side i' the family, Mr Glegg, as is fit to stand up with me.
1902 R. Hichens Felix vi. 80 Felix realised from which side of his family Stephen inherited his self-possession and lack of humour.
1975 D. Gerstenberger Iris Murdoch 64 At one extreme within the Irish side of the family is Millicent Kinnard whose passionate nature is a terrible burden.
1996 J. H. Spring Cultural Transformation Native Amer. & Family Tribe i. 8 My great-great grandfather on my grandfather's side of the family..was born a Swiss-German.
2015 Times (Nexis) 13 Jan. 11 He is descended from Boris Pasternak on his mother's side—but he's also capable of making a name for himself in his own right.
26. The actions, attitude, etc., of one person or set of people in relation to another or others. Chiefly with possessive or postmodifying of-phrase, esp. in on a person's side: as far as a specified person is concerned; as regards a specified person. Cf. part n.1 Phrases 1c(b).
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the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] > regard or side
sidec1275
respect1533
regard1573
concern1589
concernment1646
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > individuality or selfhood > my, his, etc., part
sidec1275
c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 429 Evrich blisse him is un wille..Al so þu dost on þire side.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 3167 Þe king ek in is syde is herte up on him caste.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 1463 (MED) Sad seurte was sikered on boþe sides þanne, þat menskful mariage to make.
1423 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Var. Coll. (1907) IV. 83 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 3218) LXIV. 1 This endenture y made..be thyxte the Dene & the Chapetre of Exeter yn the on syde & the Mayer & the Comynce of Exeter..yn the other syde.
a1450 ( in J. Kail 26 Polit. Poems (1904) 52 (MED) On mannys syde, repentaunce doþ rise, And on goddis syde, mercy is.
1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer i. f. cccxxviiiv There shal no misplesaunce [printed misplesauce] be caused through trespace on my syde.
1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall 23 I am sure I shall not be pinchd on the parsons side.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xxii. 65 Hardly shall I cary out my side Her husband being aliue. View more context for this quotation
1669 R. Montagu Let. 23 Apr. in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Duke of Buccleuch (1899) I. 421 in Parl. Papers (C. 9244) XLVI. 1 The rest of the conversation passed with great inveighing on his side against the Dutch.
1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 30 Aug. (1965) I. 257 Ladys are not wanting on their side in cherishing and improving these important piques.
1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 115 I was sorry on my side for the occasion I had given him.
1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel II. iii. 52 In declaring your trust in me, you have done what is honourable to yourself..and in no way undeserved on my side.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxvi. 602 He was, on his side too, very anxious to see Mrs. Osborne.
1874 J. Parker Paraclete i. x. 154 From the divine side there can be nothing sudden.
1921 Z. Grey Call of Canyon (1924) iii. 55 They all joked her, 'cept me, an' played tricks on her. An' on her side she was always puttin' her foot in it.
1983 C. Ozick Cannibal Galaxy (1984) 88 On his side he still did not know the simplest datum of her life—was she someone's wife?
2009 C. Mandell tr. J. Littell Kindly Ones 775 On my side, I didn't remain inactive.
27. One of two or more differing views of a question, problem, argument, etc. Cf. Phrases 1f(f)(ii).Earliest in on (the) other side: see other side n. 1.In quot. 1812 in extended use: people who take a particular view of a matter, considered collectively.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > mental attitude, point of view > [noun] > one of two
sidec1275
c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 299 Alured seide an oþer side A word þat is isprunge wide.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13038 On oþer side was hir ful wa, If sco suld part king herod fra.
c1450 C. d'Orleans Poems (1941) 37 (MED) For resoun noon but in my side ther nys.
1583 A. Marten tr. P. M. Vermigli Common Places iii. iii. 69/2 When anie man dooth giuen his assent vnto one side of a controuersie, he is said to suppose or haue opinion.
1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. K3 But quickly on this side the verdict went.
1673 Bp. G. Burnet Vindic. Church & State Scotl. To Rdr. sig. A5v Both sides of the debate may be well maintained without the least indignity done to God, or his holy Gospel.
1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks II. v. 305 One of those timerous Arguers..so intent in upholding their own side of the Argument.
1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. iii. i. 155 After a nice inquiry and balancing on both sides.
1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity I. iii. 305 Much was written on both sides of the question.
1812 L. Hunt in Examiner 31 Aug. 547/2 Public dinners given by any side of a question.
1839 National: Libr. for the People 12 We are all but short-sighted, and very often see but one side of the matter.
1884 Times (Weekly ed.) 19 Sept. 7/3 I am sure that there are two sides to the question.
1909 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea iv. 36 ‘Well,’ said George slowly, torn between his real convictions and his wish to measure up to Anne's ideal, ‘there's something to be said on both sides.’
1989 L. Williams Hard Core i. 8 I have not tried to offer an objective weighing of all sides of the debate that currently rages.
2010 C. Seife Proofiness viii. 229 Reporters are trained to present a neutral point of view, presenting both sides of an argument in a balanced manner.
28. The position or interests of one person, party, etc., esp. contrasted with that of another or others; also figurative. Chiefly in on a person's side: supporting a particular person; (with reference to an abstract concept such as time or luck) operating to the advantage of a particular person.Sometimes overlapping with sense 29.See also to take sides at Phrases 4.
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society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [noun] > side or cause
halfa885
side?a1300
quarrel1340
partya1375
parta1382
cause1588
quality1598
?a1300 in E. Stengel Codicem Manu Scriptum Digby 86 (1871) 55 (MED) [N]ou crist ous lete so bitide [Þ]at we ne wallen in þar side.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7547 (MED) Godd es euer on rightwis side, Werraiand again wrangwis pride.
a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 124 He þat is on Goddis syde, he heeriþ Goddis wordis.
1445 tr. Claudian's De Consulatu Stilichonis in Anglia (1905) 28 256 The parlement pierys..Seyen the duke of yorke hath god vpon his side.
c1500 Melusine (1895) 29 Your enemys ben not here, And knowe you, fayre sire, that I am of your party or syde?
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccccxlijv Therfore thought they now, or els neuer, yt God was on theyr side.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 141 To the end that the Spaniards might see the meere Irish served on our side.
1668 Lady Chaworth Let. in Hist. MSS Comm.: 12th Rep. App. Pt. V: MSS Duke of Rutland (1889) II. 10 in Parl. Papers (C. 5889-II) XLIV. 393 Mr. Ho..deserves a better fate than to be ever of the loosing side.
1714 R. Fiddes Pract. Disc. (ed. 2) II. 194 The multitude..will always declare on the side of fortune.
1750 Country Jrnl. 14 July 2/1 We pursue them whilst the Luck is on our Side.
1778 F. Burney Evelina II. i. 6 He's the most impertinentest person in the world, and isn't never of my side.
1824 G. Smith Home's Douglas 57 I, wi' right an' reason on my side, Dare scarcely mump a word.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 51 All the influence of Barillon was employed on the other side.
1894 H. Drummond Lowell Lect. Ascent of Man 434 All Nature is on the side of the man who tries to rise.
1938 C. Headlam Diary 6 Apr. in S. Ball Parl. & Politics in Age Churchill & Attlee (1999) ii. 126 He struck me as a bit too confident about having public opinion in this country on his side.
1960 P. White Let. 24 Nov. (1994) vi. 177 Fortunately time is on our side.
1997 Philosophy 72 70 Surely the best available arguments are on the side of truth and right?
2003 C. Birch Turn again Home ii. 33 All of them were always on Dad's side whenever there was a fight.
29. Each of two or more sets of opponents; spec.
a. Each of the parties engaged in a war or battle; each of two or more opposing armies.In phrases with on (e.g. at quot. 1823) the sense may approach that of sense 28.
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society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [noun]
partyc1325
sidec1325
partc1385
livery1477
faction1509
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 211 (MED) Vor þer nas god kniȝt in mani lond ne stalworþe man Þat in þe on side þere nas.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 243 (MED) Oon of þe Normans side, þat heet Talyfer by his name, cast his swerd, and pleide tofore þe oostes.
1473 in C. Rogers Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1879) I. 175 The pairtyng of the Grange forsade with the consent of bath the sydis wes made at Martymes.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) ii. 349 On athir syd thus war thai yhar, And till assemble all redy war.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 148v Aither syde after sun soght to þere hold.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cv Howe obstinate the Romishe syde was in the conuocation at Auspurge.
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. ii. 108 In trueth by his comming the side was reuiued.
a1639 W. Whately Prototypes (1640) i. xx. 207 The Conquering side is often more miserable by sinning than the conquered by slaughter or captivity.
1676 Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 34 5000 of each side killed on the place.
1705 D. Defoe Hymn to Victory in Writings II. 132 The embattl'd People now in sides appear, And all's embroil'd in Party War.
1779 G. Washington Let. 25 Mar. in Papers (2009) Revolutionary War Ser. XIX. 609 Their [sc. double spies'] situation..obliges them to trim a good deal in order to keep well with both sides.
1823 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War I. 464 The loss on either side, in this pursuit, appears not to have been great.
1871 Standard 11 Nov. 5/3 He..was anxious to take his precautions so as not to break absolutely with the winning side.
1877 Rep. Comm. Plan for Govt. Cities N.Y. in J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. (1888) II. li. 284 A general battle in which each side feels that it cannot allow any odds to the other.
1937 A. Koestler Spanish Test. iv. 84 We know how much harm the preposterous atrocity propaganda engaged in by both sides caused during the Great War.
1991 VFW Mag. Nov. 16/3 In both the Korean and Vietnam wars the two sides undertook negotiations.
2012 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 12 Jan. 8/4 Amal al-Atrash, an Eastern Mata Hari who spied for all sides during World War II.
b. Chiefly British. Each of two or more opposing groups of players in a competitive game or sport. Also more generally: a sports team.
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society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun] > team or group
side1545
team1834
active list1880
squad1902
active roster1915
pool1936
équipe1937
outfit1940
circus1958
dressing room1985
1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus To Gentlem. Eng. Other that neuer learned to shote,..wyll be as busie as the best, but suche one commonly plucketh doune a syde.
1636 P. Massinger Great Duke of Florence iv. ii. sig. H3 If I hold your Cards, I shall pull downe the side, I am not good at the game.
1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) i. 215 That side which throwes..the Ballon ouer the rayles of the other side, winns the day.
1716 London Gaz. No. 5536/4 There will..be 31 Cocks shewed of a side.
1737 London Evening-post 14 June Kent Side went in first and got 99 Notches, then Surrey Side went in and got 31.
1837 T. Hood in Comic Ann. 140 Which side had won the cricket match.
1862 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 378 ‘We'll play sides, of course,’ said Lily.
1898 J. A. Gibbs Cotswold Village xi. 230 The rest of our team included the jovial miller;..the village curate, who captained the side..; one or two farmers; [etc.].
1918 V. H. Cartwright in J. E. Raphael Mod. Rugby Football ix. 133 The two second row men..should be the strongest forwards on the side.
1977 C. Martin-Jenkins Jubilee Tests ii. iv. 87 England's only difference from their Centenary Test side was the replacement of Fletcher by Barlow.
2013 Radio Times 23 Nov. (South/West ed.) 109/1 Group F's top and bottom sides meet at the Emirates Stadium in a match that could be of huge significance.
c. Each of two or more sets of opponents in a debate or argument; (also) a political party; a faction.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun]
partc1385
livery1477
faction1509
partialitya1533
side1566
party1682
set1748
democracy1803
machine party1858
column1906
MNLF1975
1566 T. Heskyns Parl. Chryste ii. lxi. f. ccxviv The Lutherans, the Zuinglians or Oecolampadians and Caluinistes, who so contend striue and dissent among them selues, that that the one side affirmeth the other side denieth.
1591 H. Barrow Plaine Refut. Giffardes Bk. iv. 170 Both sides agree That Christ hath lefte a power to his Church &c.
1605 H. Broughton Replie vpon R. R. F. T. Winton 33 All sides agree that no further iourney was taken out of the body but the returne from Hades to it.
1624 W. Bedel Copies Certaine Lett. ii. 48 One side fetches arguments against vbiquitie from these places, and thereupon saith, the question is about these Articles.
1726 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 249 A certain side are highly disappointed.
1768 Let. to Author of North-Briton 19 The Thing in Question is for the Benefit of both Parties, but cannot be done without both Sides agree to it.
1831 Niles' Reg. 20 Aug. 445/1 Nor ought they to overlook, in considering the question, the different character of the claims of the two sides.
1888 Poultry Monthly (Albany, N.Y.) Jan. 7/1 One side contends that white and black alone make up the color of plumage, while the other side claims that blue exists in the colors.
1947 C. Headlam Diary 28 Oct. in Parl. & Politics in Age Churchill & Attlee (1999) xvi. 526 Winston made a long and ‘fighting’ speech in the House today... I think most of our side were pleased with the speech.
1987 N. Ward Dawson's Govt. Canada (ed. 6) vii. 150 Its [sc. the cabinet's] stiff and unyielding attitude to many excellent suggestions coming from the opposition side.
2014 Daily Tel. 12 Mar. 18/4 Both sides claim to be in the right over joint-ticketing.
30. A particular (usually specified) aspect of something, esp. a situation or a person’s character.See also to look on the bright side at look v. Phrases 1a(c)(iii).
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > constituent part or component > aspect of an abstract entity
visagec1374
sidea1393
respecta1398
facet1808
prong1859
parameter1927
dimension1929
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 2427 (MED) Wel is him whom god wol helpe, For he stant on the siker side.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 514 If thilk gouernaunce be..profitable to him in othere goostli sidis.
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 3868 They perseyvid clerelich in þe plee þurh-oute Hir ffrendis had þe wors side.
1644 J. Saltmarsh Dawnings of Light 11 We must know that God hath fully & from eternity made up the glory of this businesse [sc. Reformation]; and though there may be uneavennesse on the worldly side of it, yet on the heavenly side of it there is none.
1657 J. Owen Doctr. Saints Persev. xv, in Wks. (1851) XI. 539 It being the will of God to give us, as to his [sc. David's] fall, his dark side and his sin to the full.
1680 E. Polhill Christus in Corde iii. 55 Thus in both the Marriages there is a giving of themselves each to other; yet still there is an excellency on the spiritual side.
1745 J. Mason Self-knowl. i. vi. 51 Every Man hath a weak Side. Every wise Man knows where it is, and will be sure to keep a double Guard there.
1792 M. Wollstonecraft Let. 12 Nov. (2003) 277 You are employed..to exhibit the glossy side of aristocracy.
1840 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VII. lvii. 263 The future was not without its bright side.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. viii. v. 352 His first aim is to find out the ridiculous side of every one.
1891 E. Peacock Narcissa Brendon I. 139 The better side of his vulgar nature came out.
1914 Rep. Brit. Assoc. 673 The amelioration of soils on their physical side.
1966 New Statesman 21 Jan. 78/3 The kind of balance-sheet fat cats who characterise the worst side of ITV.
1988 Lit. & Theol. 11 218 There is, of course, another side of Arnold.
2005 P. Finney Conspiracy 32 Ellie scowled for a moment, but then she saw the funny side and laughed as well.
31. Either of the two divisions of an antiphonal choir. †to sing side for side, †to sing (something) on sides: to sing in a responsorial manner (obsolete).
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [noun] > alternate singing or chanting
to sing side for sidea1425
to sing (something) on sides1563
reciprocation1641
alternation1642
antiphony1753
society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > company of singers > [noun] > church choir > division of
sidea1425
a1425 Ordination of Nuns (Lansd.) in E. A. Kock Rule St. Benet (1902) 143 (MED) Þan þe chantur sall be-gine þis salme: ‘Miserere mei, deus’, þe ta side a verse, & þe toþir a-noder.
1519 W. Horman Vulgaria i. f. 11v The quere syngeth syde for syde.
1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 900/2 The psalmes shoulde be song on sides, the one side[printed hide] of the quere singing one verse the other an other.
1622 G. Goodman Creatures praysing God 25 Me thinkes I heare the Churches Antiphona's, one side of the Quier answering another.
1647 J. Cotton Singing of Psalmes xii. 67 They were the first that divided the Quire of Singers into two sides, and appointed one side of them to answer the other in the singing of them.
1738 Rom. Missal Lat. & Eng. III. 441 The two Sides of the Choir answer alternatively.
1853 D. Rock Church of our Fathers IV. xii. 137 Each took his own side of the choir for the entonement of the antiphons.
1871 C. Walker Server's Handbk. 65/1 The Glorias are sung by both sides.
1900 Irish Eccl. Rec. Oct. 365 The two choir sides then sing against each other as it were; hence the name Antiphone.
1967 Proc. Royal Musical Assoc. 93rd Sess. 14 While one side of the monastic choir sang the plainsong, the other sang the organum part.
2000 W. P. Mahrt in R. W. Duffin Performer's Guide Medieval Music i. 11 As one side sings its cadence, the other side picks up the rhythm and proceeds.
32. Cambridge University. The body of students under the supervision of a particular tutor in a college.
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society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > group under tutor
side1837
seminar1889
seminary1889
1837 B. D. Walsh Hist. Acct. Univ. Cambr. 118 ‘Assistant Tutors’..are merely officers, paid by the ‘Tutor’ at whatever rate may be fixed between them, for their services in lecturing his ‘side’ or class.
1852 C. A. Bristed Five Years Eng. University I. 15 A large college has usually two Tutors,..and the students are equally divided among them—on their sides the phrase is.
1859 F. W. Farrar Julian Home v. 54 Mr. Grayson, the tutor on whose ‘side’ he was entered.
1882 J. W. Clark in Old Friends at Cambr. (1900) 40 Tutor of one of the three sides, as they were called, into which Trinity College was then divided.
1910 Eagle (St. John's Coll., Cambr.) 31 203 The amalgamation of the two tutorial sides.
1968 S. Rothblatt Revol. Dons vii. 230 Each of the two mathematical sides at St. John's..was responsible for its own scheme of lectures.
2014 Regulations & Gen. Information Trinity Coll., Cambr. (PDF) 7 in www.trin.cam.ac.uk (O.E.D. Archive) All those who enter the College as Advanced Students are placed on Side F under the care of one of the Tutors for Advanced Students.
33. British Education. In some public schools: either of two divisions of a school, one dedicated to modern and the other to classical subjects. Also with capital initial. Cf. modern side at modern adj. 7. Now historical.
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society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > division of pupils
school1586
faction1700
lower school1725
middle school1829
side1866
1866 Public Schools Cal. ii. 283 At the Third Form, a division of the School [sc. Richmond Grammar School, Yorkshire] commences into two sides, called the Classical and Modern, the latter devoted to the subjects of the various competitive examinations.
1884 Jrnl. Educ. Sept. 348/2 Modern sides have grown and flourished.
1884 Jrnl. Educ. Sept. 348/2 Latin and Greek on the Classical side.
1905 Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 78 [At Harrow] the Modern Side is not self-contained in the sense of having a separate staff.
1957 R. Chandler Let. 11 Nov. in R. Chandler Speaking (1966) 19 In my time they had two ‘sides’, a Modern Side intended mostly for boys who expected to go into some sort of business, and a Classical Side for those who took Latin and Greek.
2000 C. Tyerman Hist. Harrow School xiii. 333 Between 1876 and 1880 there was a Modern Side scholarship; thereafter the maths scholarships were open to both Sides.
34. A team of morris dancers.
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1907 C. J. Sharp & H. C. MacIlwaine Morris Bk. 37 The Morris side, when in position for dancing, stands in..the positions as shown hereunder.
1931 Musical Q. 17 254 A troupe of Kaskarots from the neighbouring Basque country, or..a side of Morris men from far away Oxfordshire.
1978 Guardian 22 Dec. 9/3 The Poynton Jemmers, a women's morris dance side.
2010 J. Simpson Green Men & White Swans 311 On Plough Monday the Fowlers' Troop, a group including several sides of Morris dancers, undertake their own pub crawl round Royal Hill.
35. Chiefly Trinidad. One of a pair of things, esp. shoes or socks.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > pair > [noun] > one of a pair
neighbour1880
side1919
1919 Trinidad Guardian 1 Aug. 3/1 She alleged that the defendant stole the side of a gold bracelet she had, which he denied.
1982 E. Lovelace Shoemaker Arnold in Brief Conversion (1988) 126 Norbert would steal Arnold's money, sell a pair of shoes, lose a side of shoes, charge people and pocket the money.
1990 in L. Winer Dict. Eng./Creole Trinidad & Tobago (2009) 817/1 The man was wearing one side of earring.
2020 @nuwungjin 15 Mar. in twitter.com (accessed 1 July 2020) Can someone please explain to me why does one side of socks always goes missing after laundry!
36. British colloquial. A television channel or service, considered as one of two or more available to watch.In early use (in the other side) often applied spec. to Independent Television (see independent adj. 5e) as distinguished from the BBC Television Service (see quot. 1964).
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > organization or service
television station1926
television network1930
TV station1945
TV network1947
channel1952
Independent Television (Authority)1954
I.T.A.1955
I.T.V.1958
side1961
Channel 41964
MTV1981
1961 Spectator 3 Nov. 625 The BBC boosts its wares quite as unremittingly, if more quietly, than the other side.
1964 N.Y. Times Mag. 29 Mar. 13/2 For many years, the British viewer's choice was limited to the B.B.C.'s single, noncommercial channel. Since 1955 he has had a second, the commercial service called Independent Television and known to all as ‘The Other Side.’
1972 Guardian 21 Mar. 2/2 A ‘Budget Special’ on both sides: BBC-1 has Scanlon.., ITV gets Feather and others.
1988 D. Morley Family Television v. 132 We normally tape one side and watch what I want to watch.
1991 B. Gunter et al. Children's Views about Television 55 Yeah like they'll have arguments about which side to watch as well, like people do.
1998 C. Aherne et al. Royle Family Scripts: Ser. 1 (1999) Episode 1. 8 Is that Lesley Joseph? In't there nowt on the other side?

Phrases

P1. Prepositional phrases.
a. by (also at) a person's side: (with reference to a person) next to or in close proximity to a person, and typically providing assistance, moral support, comfort, etc. Also figurative.
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the world > space > distance > nearness > near by [phrase] > close to a person
by a person's sidec1275
at the, one's elbow(s)1548
the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > alongside [phrase] > by a person's side
by a person's sidec1275
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12854 Arður eode abute & his cnihtes bi his siden [c1300 Otho side].
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 371 Til þat he kouþen..Speken and gangen, on horse riden, Knictes an sweynes bi here siden.
a1450 Castle Perseverance (1969) l. 1085 (MED) I com to dwelle be þi syde.
1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 iii. iii. 16 Sit by my side.
1655 R. Baillie Disswasive Vindic. 62 In this unadvertency M. Marshall..has the good luck to be set at my side.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 486 To have thee by my side Henceforth an individual solace dear. View more context for this quotation
1769 T. Gray Ode at Installation Duke of Grafton 5 With Freedom by my Side, and soft-ey'd Melancholy.
1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 382 Frequent in Park with lady at his side, Ambling and prattling scandal as he goes.
1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold II. viii. iv. 255 Thou shalt stand by my side while I invoke the phantom.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 46 Not at my side! I charge you ride before.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §3. 487 Buckingham..stood defiantly at his master's side as he was denounced.
1928 V. Delmar Bad Girl i. ii. 22 A dashing, derbyed youth stood proudly at her side.
1988 Woman's Day (N.Y.) Jan. 68/3 She is as tireless as her husband, working by his side.
2004 XXL Worldwide June 26/1 I got a good woman by my side and I feel revitalized.
b. by the side of.
(a) In close proximity to; next to; beside.
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c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1442 (MED) Þe jueles out of Jerusalem..Bi þe syde of þe sale were semely arayed.
1482 W. Caxton tr. Higden's Prolicionycion i. xxvii. f. xxxviiiv In the weste Occean acquytanicus, that is the see that is by the side of guyan.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. iii. f. 13v Saylinge..by the syde of Cuba..he espied..a large hauen.
1584 B. R. tr. Herodotus Famous Hyst. ii. f. 77v Fast by the side of thys city ranne a swift and violent riuer.
1638 A. Read Man. Anat. Body of Man (new ed.) iv. v. 488 The one [sc. artery] passeth by the side of the outward part of tibia.
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 159 Our Men..shot a Brace of Deer, as they were feeding by the Side of a swamp.
1824 S. E. Ferrier Inheritance I. xvii. 188 Mr R. sat by the side of the expiring fire.
1873 A. H. Leonowens Romance of Harem xx. 165 A magnificent new Buddhist temple is seen..close by the side of an ancient one.
1944 B. M. Bowen Strange Script. iv. 57 She selects two of the largest [broken pieces of pottery]: one she places by the side of the well.
2004 Trail May 44/1 This is no learned tome..—more of a compendium of brain-floss to store by the side of the loo.
(b) In comparison with.
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1779 E. Fay Let. 28 June in Orig. Lett. from India (1817) 44 The Buchetta, an appenine mountain, by the side of which Mont Cenis would appear contemptible.
1832 R. Cattermole Beckett 205 The..noble union of the meek and manly qualities..that characterised chivalry, and..displays it to so much advantage by the side of modern civilisation.
1909 Daily Graphic 26 July 10/1 He..made a flight of twenty-five miles across country; but that..pales into insignificance by the side of the Channel flight.
2004 I. H. Birchall Sartre against Stalinism iv. 40 Socialisme et liberté was tiny and insignificant by the side of the far more disciplined and well-organised PCF [sc. the French Communist Party] machine.
(c) In coexistence with; at the same time as; alongside.
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1796 G. Colman Iron Chest Pref. p. xiii Had I..look'd on the thing..by itself, why the thing is a good-natured thing; but I must be putting other circumstances by the side of it.
1814 J. Rodman tr. Comm. Code France 84 Gentlemen, The code of commerce rises by the side of the Code Napoleon.
1839 S. Laing Tour in Sweden 1838 i. 8 The canoe exists by the side of the steam vessel, barbarism by the side of civilized appearances.
1879 Academy 27 Dec. 467 [Wurtz] asserts that although antimony is usually regarded as a metal, it must, in a true chemical classification, find its place by the side of arsenic, phosphorus, and nitrogen.
1931 O. Jespersen in S.P.E. Tract (Soc. for Pure Eng.) No. XXXVI. 524 By the side of the simple tenses we have in English expanded tenses, e.g.: simple: he works, he worked, he has worked; expanded: he is working, he was working, he has been working.
1988 A. V. Subramanian Aesthetics of Wonder ii. 7 A poet's mind remains today the least explored part of man's world, by the side of which the darkest Africa must be regarded as exhaustively explored and fully mapped.
2002 Glot Internat. 6 272/2 The separation into pitch accents..and boundary tones..harks back to..juncture phonemes..which existed by the side of the pitch phonemes.
c. Phrases with from and fro.
(a) from (also fro) side to side.
(i) From one lateral edge to another; across the entire width of something; right across.
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tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. l. 759 (MED) Their stallis..beth..With stonys paued wel from side to side.
1448 Will of Henry VI in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 354 The same Quere shal conteyne in brede from side to side within the respondes .xxxij. fete.
1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 18 Euery right lyne that passeth from side to syde in a globe, and toucheth the centre, is aptely called a diameter.
1614 Orders & Bylawes Stretham in C. L. Kingsford Two London Chrons. (1910) 271 Wee doe order and appoynt that..the now farmor..shall clense, rooke, haffe and scowre the same from side to side at the full bredth thereof.
a1674 J. Milton To C. Skinner upon his Blindness in Lett. State (1694) p. xlviii My noble task; Of which all Europe rings from side to side.
1736 J. Addison tr. Petronius Wks. 285 Within the Hut a smoaky Pole was slung, From Side to Side, 'cross which its Treasures hung.
1789 W. Wordsworth Evening Walk 165 Some..O'erwalk the slender plank from side to side.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Lady of Shalott iii, in Poems (new ed.) 15 The mirror cracked from side to side.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. vii. 54 I followed the veins several times from side to side.
1880 Brechin Advertiser 21 Sept. 3/2 [We] ca'd the road frae side to side.
1914 H. B. Smith Sheep & Wool Industry Australasia vi. 33 A cutter with three teeth running from side to side over a flat comb.
1977 Skateboard Special Sept. 5/1 For a giant slalom the cones are laid out from side to side with widely varying distances between each one.
2007 L. M. Chiappe Glorified Dinosaurs i. 24/2 The front surface of each vertebra is concave from side to side and convex from top to bottom.
(ii) Alternately left and right from a central point.
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1529 T. More Supplyc. Soulys ii. f. xliii You walter peraduenture and tolter in syknes fro syde to syde.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. iv. f. 68v Yet are they [sc. branches] tossed therewith, and swaye sumwhat from syde to syde.
1635 F. Quarles Emblemes iii. xi. 166 My Canvace torne, it flaps from side to side.
c1645 W. Atkins Relation of Journey (1994) 225 Wee in the cabbin were tossed like balls from side to side with reciprocall and perpetuall knocks and rebounds.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Rolling, the motion by which a ship rocks from side to side like a cradle.
1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere iii, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 16 She doth not tack from side to side—..Withouten wind, withouten tide She steddies with upright keel.
1850 String of Pearls 102 The hackney coach swung about from side to side.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Wapper-eyed, having quick-moving restless eyes—constantly rolling from side to side, as is seen in very nervous persons.
1907 Daily Chron. 1 Feb. 8/5 Dr Bird was sitting in my chair, pivotting from side to side.
1959 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles VIII. 217 The bird..waggles its head from side to side.
2012 Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 31 Aug. 6/1 The Xhosa women's hips sway gently from side to side as they carry bundles of firewood or buckets of water on their heads.
(b) from (also fro) one side to the other and variants.
(i) From one lateral edge to another; across the entire width of something; right across.
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c1450 J. Capgrave Solace of Pilgrims (Bodl. 423) (1911) 24 (MED) Þe circumferens of euery sercle is thries as mech as is þe space fro o side to an othir.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxxxiiiv The grate, which extended from the one syde of the bridge, euen directly to the other.
1581 W. Borough Discours Variation Cumpas vii. sig. D.ivv You must regard that you force it not from one side of the Horizon to an other, but that it rest equidistant in the same.
1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells vi. 376 The bredth of the forehead from one side to the other.
1653 R. Austen Treat. Fruit-trees 45 Having cast up the Borders..stretch a Line from one side to the other.
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 294 They [sc. the Enemy] were drawn up..in one Line extended from one Side of the Field to the other.
1764 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. I Crab..This machine differs from a capstern..in having the bars to go entirely through it, and reach from one side of the deck to the other.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Homer's Hymn to Mercury xxxv, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 306 He walked..From one side to the other of the road.
1889 Technic (Univ. Mich. Engin. Soc.) 5 45 These car-lines are bolted to the plates and arch over from one side to the other.
1958 C. Achebe Things fall Apart vii. 47 There were little holes from one side to the other in the upper levels of the wall.
2004 C. H. Gilliland Voy. to Thousand Cares 157 ‘Hogging’ involved cleaning the ship's bottom by looping a line under the bottom from one side to the other.
(ii) Alternately left and right from a central point.
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?1530 tr. Compost of Ptholomeus xliv. sig. q.ivv The persones whiche haue theyr iyen mouynge faste from one syde to another, and haue theyr syghte sharpe and quycke sygnyfyeth fraude, & thefte, and is of lytell truste.
1584 T. Bedingfield tr. C. Corte Art of Riding 101 An angrie horsse..that dooth wryth his head from one side to the other.
1639 G. A. Pallas Armata i. i. v. 17 If thine adversary shakes the point of his Rapier from one side to another,..make a halfe thrust at him.
1672 H. Chamberlen tr. F. Mauriceau Dis. Women with Child ii. viii. 187 It must also be observed that the Head be not drawn forth strait, but shaking it a little from one side to the other.
1743 tr. L. Heister Gen. Syst. Surg. I. iii. 153 He quickly lays hold of the Patient's Head with both his Hands, and..gently moves it from one Side to the other.
1790 tr. F. Le Vaillant Trav. Afr. II. 371 I walked several times round it, my eyes wandering from one side to another, as if to discover my lost way.
1827 A. Jamieson Dict. Mech. Sci. I. 160/2 A man walking has a libratory motion from one side to the other.
1877 W. F. Gill Life Poe iii. 49 He..stood swaying from one side to the other.
1956 Amer. Bar Assoc. Jrnl. 42 343/1 The pendulum of the clock swings from one side to the other.
2010 South Bend (Indiana) Tribune (Nexis) 2 Mar. a1 His parents were in a fourth-floor apartment and felt the building sway from one side to the other.
(c) from all sides: from every direction; from everywhere or everyone.
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1565 A. Golding tr. Caesar Martiall Exploytes in Gallia iv. f. 101v The noble men resorting to Cesar from all sydes, submitted themselues..vnto hym.
1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth i. 12 Scarce had he spoken the word, when all from all sides cryed..God saue Queene Elizabeth.
1799 W. Godwin St. Leon III. xi. 256 The..press of the crowd from all sides could alone have rendered this circumstance of any magnitude.
1894 Catholic World May 247 From all sides come the sounds of merry-making.
1908 G. H. Lorimer Jack Spurlock vi. 107 My troubles came at me from all sides.
1972 T. Williams Let. 26 Aug. in Five O'Clock Angel (1991) 271 Billy is catching it from all sides—but remains cool.
2006 Guardian 30 Sept. (Guide Suppl.) 91/2 A..council official and governor of the new Kerbside Recycling scheme..is facing hostility from all sides.
†d. in (also on) other sides: in other respects. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > specifically [phrase] > in detail > in any point or particular > in other respects
in other sidesc1390
c1390 W. Hilton Mixed Life (Vernon) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1895) I. 291 Or elles we are not disposed be clennes of lyuyng on oþur sydes forte receyue his grace.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 515 (MED) He be ful profitable in goostli maner in othere sides.
?a1475 (a1396) W. Hilton Scale of Perfection (Harl. 6579) i. xxxiii. f. 20v (MED) If he kepe heere in meknes and charite in oþer sydes, he schal haue ful mikil mede in heuene.
†e. of a side: on each side. Obsolete.
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1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. v. f. 116 They make a hole in the earth, settynge twelue trunkes of these rootes..in euery of the sayd beddes conteynynge three rootes of a syde.
1589 L. Ward in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 653 The head part [sc. of a fish] I kept, in whose nose is like a sword a bone of two foote long, with 23 prickes of a side, sharpe and strange.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 160 The Investigators of nature doe say, that they haue fifteene teeth of a side.
?a1640 J. Day & H. Chettle Blind-beggar (1659) ii. sig. D3v Old Simsons son of Showdam Thorp, that wears his great gall gaskins o'the Swash-fashion, with 8 or 10 gold laces of a side.
1701 G. Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair i. 5 The Pinners are double ruffled with twelve pleats of a side.
1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 83 Six banks of paddles, three banks of a side.
a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) III. iii. 43 His face..all lines and wrinkles, nine grey hairs of a side . View more context for this quotation
f. Phrases with on and upon. Cf. onside adv. and adj.1
(a)
†(i) on side: on or to one side; aside. Cf. aside adv. Obsolete.In quot. 1489: alongside a person; = aside adv. 11.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > to the side or aside [phrase]
on sideOE
asiden-hand1440
asidec1460
aside-hand1471
over score1513
the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > alongside [phrase] > on one side
on sideOE
aside half1398
at travers?a1400
a to-side1575
aside slips1577
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > changing direction of movement [phrase] > aside from course
on sideOE
OE Riddle 21 13 Fealleþ on sidan þæt ic toþum tere.
c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 102 (MED) Þe ealleofte hwelp is ifed..wið semblanz & wið sines, as beoren on heh þet heaued..lokin o siden [c1390 Vernon a syden; L. ex laterre], bihalden on hokere, winche mid ehe.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xvii. l. 57 (MED) Feith had first siȝte of hym, ac he flegh on syde.
a1450 York Plays (1885) 199 This stone..Remove and sette on syde.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vii. 111 Thai saw on syde thre men cumand.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) vii. 60 He ran on sid [1487 St. John's Cambr. on fut] alwayis him by.
1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 191 On syde scho lukit wyth ane fremyt fare.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxxxvij This battayl was sore foughten, for hope of life was set on side on euery parte.
1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 350/2 What shall it auaile vs to start on side from the rule which hee hath giuen vs?
1603 Thre Prestis of Peblis (Charteris) (1920) 28 Weil saw he with this king micht na man byde Bot thay that wald al sadnes set on syde.
1684 tr. A. O. Exquemelin Bucaniers Amer. iii. ix. 112 You may all expect great Spoyl and Riches from this Enterprize, and therefore let all Fear and Cowardize be set on side.
1782 J. Price Let. to E. Burke 65 This last was the person whom the mayors court set on side as insufficient from debility of body and mind to conduct his own affairs.
†(ii) on side half: on or to one side; apart. Cf. aside half adv. and prep. at aside adv., prep., adj., and n. Compounds. Obsolete.
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the world > space > distance > distance or farness > a long way off [phrase] > to or at a distance apart
on (also by, upon) rooma1325
on side halfc1430
c1430 N. Love Mirror Blessed Life (Brasenose e.9) (1908) 263 (MED) Oure lord Jesu came and aperede to hir..gretynge hir on side half in thise wordes.
c1520 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1905) III. Acts xxiii. 19 The tribune tuke his hand, and yede with him on side halue [Purvey asidis half] and askit him [etc.].
(b) on all sides, on each side (also †in each side), on every side, and variants: in or from all directions, quarters, or parties concerned; all around; everywhere.
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the world > space > place > here, there, etc. > [phrase] > everywhere > on all sides
on all sidesc1275
on all handsc1540
on every handc1540
right and left1822
left and right1824
right, left, and centre1852
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 312 His ferde he sette on ælchere siden[c1300 Otho echere side].
c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1963) l. 7007 Þo were Peutes ouer-come and swiþe hii awey floȝe on euereche side.
c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 969 On euerich a side, On him was leyd al þe pride.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. l. 392 Tobroke is Cristes folde, Wherof the flock..Devoured is on every side.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 365 On evyrysyde, undique, circumquaque.
a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) l. 2896 Wepyng & sorwyng in yche a syde.
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) ii. xiv. sig. p.iiiiv Counnyng surgeans were sought vpon euery syde.
?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Lj A synew concaued on eche syde.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 178 A most pleasant valley, compassed on all sides with mountaines.
1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 22 On each side bowing popularly low.
1684 J. Browne Adenochoiradelogia ii. iv. 47 In the Womb this inequality of Nutriment is much amended by an equal heat, the Womb equally in each side embracing and cherishing the Body of the Embryo.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 110. ¶2 The Ruins of the Abby are scattered up and down on every Side.
1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia I. vii. 44 The clouds broke on the surrounding mountains, and the torrents streamed into the plain on every side.
1831 W. Scott Count Robert viii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. I. 249 Thanks to Heaven were returned on all sides.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xii. 202 On every side, Oxford is redolent of age and authority.
1898 J. L. Weston tr. Sir Gawain & Green Knight 28 He..came into a thick forest, wild and drear; on each side were high hills, and thick woods below them.
1928 Cent. Mag. Aug. 465/2 Radio sets flood the market, beauty parlors spring up on every side.
1992 Economist 11 July 13/1 On every side, it seems, the cry is for action, vision and a change of course.
2007 J. Carew Flowers of Forest xii. 82 Now it seemed as if someone had declared a public holiday; there were smiles on all sides.
(c) on the other side and variants: see other side n. 1.
†(d) upon the side of: with regard to (something). Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > in relation to [phrase] > in respect of or with regard to
in wise ofc1290
by (also for) reason ofa1350
as to (the) regard ofc1392
in regard of or toc1392
upon the side ofa1393
with regard toc1392
in respect of?a1425
in this (also that) behalf1458
upon the feat of1483
for (the) respect of1489
as pertains to1526
in order to1526
with respect1556
ad idem1574
on this behalf1581
in or with reference to1593
quoad hoc1601
in point of1605
with intuition to (of)1626
in the mention of1638
in terms of1704
how and about1753
as regards1797
as concerns1816
w.r.t.1956
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iii. l. 1503 Mi fader, upon loue [emended in ed. to loves] side Mi conscience I woll noght hyde.
(e) on this side of and variants. Also with noun complement without of. In later use frequently with ellipsis of on.
(i) Before (a specified date, time, event, etc.).
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the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [adverb] > in advance or beforehand > in advance of > that time or a specific date
there-toforna1400
on this side of1436
then-tofore1629
1436 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Var. Coll. (1907) IV. 198 in Parl. Papers 1906 (Cd. 3218) LXIV. 1 He that calleth hym Duc of Burgeyne disposyth hym..on this side Estre nyxt to lay assege to oure toun of Caleys.
1472–3 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1472 1st Roll §8. m. 36 The seid .x.th part to be assessed..a this syde the morn of the fest of the Purification of Oure Lady.
1530–1 Act 22 Hen. VIII c. 12 The seales aboue rehersed, shall bee made..on this syde the feast of the Natiuitie of sayncte John Baptist nexte commynge.
1557 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1950) 45 17 To provid a handbell at thissyd Alhallon.
1602 in East Anglian (1863) 1 341 As to the glasing the p'son and inh'itants..are admonished to repaire the same on this side the first daie of Januarie next.
1672 T. Manley Clerks Guide 413 If the estate of the premisses be not effectually conveyed him..on this side the last day of, &c. next coming, [etc.].
1771 Hist. Sir William Harrington IV. ci. 253 But all, I fear, won't be completed on this side Christmas.
1826 Lit. Souvenir 104 Come not within sight of Luke Malmsey, and Malmsey Manor, on this side doomsday—think upon that now!
1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. xxvii. 335 He's not at home, and won't be this side of eleven o'clock.
1902 Dun's Rev. (N.Y.) 4 Oct. 4/1 Many cannot promise deliveries this side December.
1915 Chatterbox 15 July 343/1 There is hardly time to go anywhere this side of dinner-time.
2007 Times (Nexis) 9 Oct. 44 Any deal was unlikely to be completed this side of Christmas.
(ii) Not fully attaining or amounting to (a specified state or condition); short of. †on this side nothing: almost entirely insignificant; (in quot. 1667) not completely annihilated (obsolete).
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the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > small of quantity, amount, or degree [phrase] > less than
on this side ofc1449
short of or from1560
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 78 The other is openest in suerte of likelihode or of probabilite a this side suerte.
1621 B. Jonson Masque of Augures sig. A2 A prettie man! and a prettie man is a little o' this side nothing.
1647 H. More Philos. Poems Pref. sig. B3 [He] hath attempted bravely, but yet methinks on this side of Mathematicall evidence.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 101 If our substance be indeed Divine, And cannot cease to be, we are at worst On this side nothing . View more context for this quotation
1672 J. V. Canes Τω Kαθολικω Stillingfleeton ii. 16 The whole treatise in Bellarmin seems to him now at this his distance, but as..an atome, a little on this side nothing; and therefore not worth speaking of.
1833 C. Lamb Ellistoniana in Last Ess. Elia (1838) 34 My first introduction to E., which afterwards ripened into an acquaintance a little on this side of intimacy, was over a counter in the Leamington Spa Library.
1863 A. Campbell Pop. Lect. & Addr. viii. 197 He lived and died on this side of the science of psychomancy. He did not consult the souls of the dead, but only the souls of the living.
1916 E. V. Lucas Vermilion Box 141 He was, as the slang phrase has it, ‘oiled’; which is a condition of alcoholic comfort well on this side of inebriety.
1963 N. Arvin Longfellow 319 Among the younger literary generation..the prevalent attitude was well this side of idolatry.
2004 Independent (Compact ed.) 7 Apr. 33/1 Those who earn a living from writing..try to stay on this side of outright tartiness.
(f) on (the) one side and variants. (Cf. to one side at Phrases 1h.)
(i) In one or other direction leaning away from the vertical or horizontal.
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1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 585/1 I hylde, I leane on the one syde, as a bote or shyp or any other vessell.
1606 S. Daniel Queenes Arcadia ii. i. sig. C3 His armes incross'd, his head downe on one side.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iii. iii. 19 To me comes a creature, Sometimes her head on one side, some another. View more context for this quotation
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 335 The vessel reeling quite down on one side..was immediately filled with water.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 77. ⁋1 Alexander the Great had a wry neck, which made it the fashion in his court to carry their heads on one side.
1766 Museum Rusticum 6 374 As to the width of the gates,..the men..could..easily incline the roller on one side, and..wriggle it in.
1834 Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pa.) 18 Nov. 4/4 It rose at once half a mile in a perpendicular direction, the car leaning so much on one side, that his ballast and a bottle of wine and his hat were thrown out.
1868 C. J. Lever Bramleighs I. x. 137 His lordship now placed his hat on his head, slightly on one side.
1949 W. Havighurst Signature of Time 9 Jimmy with his rabbity white hair, his head cocked on one side, his toothy grin.
1984 W. Diehl Hooligans (1985) 63 The calliope music started, but the merry-go-round was destroyed, tilted on one side like a bloody beret.
2003 R. Liddle Too Beautiful for You (2004) 188 He just smiles at me slightly, his head on one side.
(ii) Used to introduce a point of view, fact, case, etc., followed by another which contrasts with it, usually introduced by on the other (side); = on (the) one hand at hand n. Phrases 1i(e). Cf. on the other side at other side n. 1.
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a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 47 We may..a the one syde to stretly juge..the hole mater..orels of the other syde [etc.].
1668 W. Charleton Ephesian Matron (new ed.) 3 in Ephesian & Cimmerian Matrons Notwithstanding the importunities of her Parents and Friends on one side, and the necessities of Nature on the other, urging her to commiserate and relieve her self.
1725 D. Cotes tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 17th Cent. II. 67 As on the one side, Reason discovers it to be fit, that Man should be Immortal; so on the other side [etc.].
1773 S. Neville Diary 3 Apr. (1950) ix. 200 On one side the advantage..of increasing my knowledge in Medicine.
1818 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) IV. 901 For myself, I cannot agree wholly either with Sir S. Romilly on the one side, or with the Paleyians on the other.
1887 T. Fowler Princ. Morals ii. v. 189 The conflict is between a feeling of sociality..on the one side, and a man's self-respect..on the other.
1901 Times 30 Aug. 5/2 She is as far, on the one side, from being cryptogrammatical as she is, on the other, from a bald insistence upon her points.
1996 W. A. Kort Take, Read 120 Calvin opposed both the subjection of Bible reading to the church, on the one side, and the rejection of the ‘dead letter’ of texts for an immediate relation to God claimed by spiritualists, on the other.
(iii) Out of the way; aside; spec. in a separate place, to be dealt with or considered later; out of account or consideration. Cf. to one side at Phrases 1h(b).
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1585 R. P. tr. D. Ortúñez de Calahorra Second Pt. First Bk. Myrrour of Knighthood i. f. 3v The Emperour foreseeing that perillous blowe, with great lightnesse cleered himselfe from the furie thereof by leaping on the one side, so that the Boars Speare stroke in the grounde.
1699 tr. de La Vauguion Compl. Body Chirurg. Operations xxiv. 205 If the Membranes are not broken, the Artist must put a little on one side that part of the Burthen which presents, and break the Membranes with his Fingers.
1776 London Mag. Feb. 87/2 The king..pushed it [sc. a petition] on one side.
1820 P. B. Shelley Œdipus Tyrannus ii. 42 Your Majesty In such a filthy business had better Stand on one side.
1880 Bp. Fraser in Manch. Guardian 25 Nov. The Agnostic neither denied nor affirmed God. He simply put Him on one side.
1912 A. W. Hodson Trekking Great Thirst 39 There were a few makatane amongst them, which we put carefully on one side for ourselves.
1960 Times 9 Dec. 14/5 All the detailed arguments..could be put on one side.
2008 U. McGovern Lost Crafts (2009) 131 Carefully tip the buttermilk out of the jar, keeping it on one side if you wish to use it in another recipe.
(iv) to take (a person) on one side and variants: to engage (a person) in a private conversation, esp. in order to warn or admonish him or her. Cf. to take (a person) to one side at Phrases 1h(c).
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1585 R. P. tr. D. Ortúñez de Calahorra Second Pt. First Bk. Myrrour of Knighthood lviii. f. 229v Fidelia..went vnto the king, and taking him on the one side somwhat a part, she sayd: Soueraigne Lord, [etc.].
1639 H. Peacham Merry Disc. Meum & Tuum 13 Tuum..calls her on the one side, and tells her in private, that he..could not chuse but informe against the smalnesse of his Bread.
1791 Scots Mag. July 342/1 M. de Damas went to the man who rode first, drew him on one side, and conversed with him in a very low voice.
1892 Catholic World Aug. 684 ‘At last, Dolores!’ he exclaimed. And leading me on one side he poured forth into my ear the tale I so longed to hear.
1918 Lake Park (Iowa) News 2 May ‘What's the matter with you, Mazerouz?’ asked the deputy chief, taking him on one side.
2013 D. Pendleton Rebel Blast vii. 72 Keep your voice down or else those goons will take you on one side and give you shit now.
(g) With modifying adjective. on the —— side of (a specified age): older, or younger, than (a specified age).See also right side n. 7b, on the wrong side of at wrong adj. 10e, on the sunny side of at sunny side n. and adj. Phrases 1, on the shady side of at shady adj. 2b.
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1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot i. i. 2 I attribute this Costivenesse..to his yeares, being on the worse side of forty.
1664 T. Killigrew Parsons Wedding v. ii, in Comedies & Trag. 140 She is smitten in years o'th wrong side of forty.
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 42 She's on the wrong Side of Thirty, if she be a Day.
1777 P. Thicknesse Year's Journey France & Spain ii. 228 Get it [sc. information] from a French officer, or a priest, provided they are on the wrong side of forty... Avoid all acquaintance with either, on the right side of thirty.
1794 J. Collard Life James Molesworth Hobart I. 12 A gentleman, who, though on the worst side of sixty, had..become enamoured of a beautiful young damsel of twenty years of age.
1807 Salmagundi 20 Mar. 108 The younger being somewhat on the shady side of thirty.
1861 W. G. Clark in F. Galton Vac. Tourists & Trav. 1860 24 A priest on the podgy side of forty.
1891 E. Peacock Narcissa Brendon I. 8 She was on the less enviable side of fifty.
1917 R. Cullum Triumph John Kars i. 10 He was a young man, a shade on the better side of thirty-five.
1989 O. S. Card Prentice Alvin xv. 199 Miss Larner seemed to be on the greying side of forty.
2012 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 9 Mar. c3/1 Ms. Shepard and Mr. Wetherall,..it is safe to say, are both on the northern side of 50.
(h) With modifying adjective. on the —— side: with a tendency towards the specified quality, condition, or aspect (originally one of two opposing qualities, conditions, etc.). Now esp. in to be on the —— side: to tend towards being ——; to be rather ——.Recorded earliest in to err on the —— side at err v. Additions. See also on the safe side at safe adj. Phrases 13, on the sure side at sure adj., adv., and int. Phrases 5c, right side n. 6.
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1657 W. London Catal. Most Vendible Bks. Eng. Introd. sig. C4 If I doe err, sure it's on the better side, for that it's a Rule given in Politicks, rather to speak well, then ill, of things or persons.
1719 J. Leng Nat. Obligations x. 317 I cannot see how we could reasonably advise a wise man to act otherwise than on the safe side.
1803 G. Colman John Bull i. i. 7 Its prophecying on the sure side for to tell a thing when it has happened.
1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility III. iv. 78 Determining to be on the safe side, he made his apology in form as soon as he could say anything. View more context for this quotation
1864 A. Trollope Can you forgive Her? I. xi. 90 He is just a shade too good... But it's a fault on the right side.
1896 W. Park Game of Golf ii. 37 The grip..should not be too thick, neither should it be too thin, but of the two it is better to be on the thin side.
1913 E. M. Forster Let. 1 Jan. in Hill of Devi (1953) 24 Her dress was on the negligée side, but she had not been intending to receive.
1932 News Chron. 28 May 4/4 It must be pointed out that prices are on the high side.
1974 A. Morice Killing with Kindness ii. 14 He was a bit on the tired side, but..he's accustomed to long hours.
2004 Essentials Dec. 123 (advt.) To find out if the meat is cooked, insert a skewer—if the juices are red or pink it is on the rare side.
(i) Originally U.S. to get (also be, keep, etc.) on the good side of a person: to gain a person's favour; (also) to be, remain, etc., in a person's favour; = to get (also stay, etc.) (on) the right side of someone at right side n. 7a. Similarly to get (also be, etc.) on the wrong (also bad) side of a person: to fall or be out of favour with a person.
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1843 ‘M. Tensas’ Odd Leaves from Louisiana ‘Swamp Doctor’ 71 I had letters of introduction for the old chap; and I thought I'd deliver them early, and get on his good side.
1888 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 13 Oct. 4/5 No boy who wants to keep on her good side should ever speak disrespectfully of the tariff.
1896 ‘M. Twain’ in Harper's Mag. Aug. 345/1 I reckon he's somebody they think they better be on the good side of.
1935 W. S. Maugham Don Fernando xi. 233 He got on the wrong side of most of the people he had to do with and was forced to resign.
1971 B. Head Maru i. 92 They were on his bad side and..life was not worth living if you were on the bad side of Maru.
1994 J. Welter Night of Avenging Blowfish 182 ‘Don't get on my bad side, Doyle.’ ‘It's too late to avoid that side.’
1995 E. Toman Dancing in Limbo i. 16 ‘Little Plum, your Redskin Chum,’ a corner boy might quip as herself and the butcher passed on the street, but sotto voce, for you didn't get on the wrong side of Magee.
2003 G. Joseph Big Smoke x. 103 He's..looking for a leg-up. He'll do anything to get on my good side.
(j) on the side of the angels.
(i) Supporting the theory of the divine creation of humankind as opposed to the theory of evolution.In later use with reference to quot. 1864.
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1864 B. Disraeli Church Policy 26 Is man an ape or an angel?.. I am on the side of the angels.
1979 ‘C. Aird’ Some die Eloquent vii. 99 He had always in any case been on the side of the angels anyway. Apes were less appealing.
2002 M. Shermer In Darwin's Shadow ix. 233 Mivart firmly placed himself ‘on the side of the angels’ when it came to the human soul and intellect, which he felt could only be accounted for by supernatural infusion.
(ii) Supporting, or acting in accordance with, principles regarded as good or right (sometimes spec. at the risk of unpopularity); on the right side; morally upright, virtuous.
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society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > on the side of right [phrase]
on the side of the angels1894
1894 Musical Times 1 Mar. 169/2 Even when his [sc. Von Bülow's] humour was most outrageous it was nine times out of ten on the side of the angels.
1926 Punch 22 Dec. 700/1 Miss Marguerite Williams..is so firmly posted on the side of the angels that I can forgive her if she occasionally seems rather to force the note.
1956 G. H. Vallins Pattern of Eng. vii. 171 ‘Different from’ reminds the reader that whatever other men have done.., Fowler himself is on the side of the angels.
2001 F. Popcorn & A. Hanft Dict. Future 134 Some [corporations]..exaggerate their green credentials to mislead consumers into thinking they are on the side of the angels.
(k) Originally U.S. on the side.
(i) In addition to and served separately from the main part of a meal or course; as a side dish.
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the world > food and drink > food > serving food > [adverb] > served in specific way
hot and hot1710
on the side1883
1883 Denver Republican 14 Dec. 5/5 ‘Gimme that snake rare—milk gravy on the side,’ was hallooed to the cook.
1916 Literary Digest 18 Mar. 766/3 ‘Beef stew and a cup of tea for me,’ the new arrival said. ‘Bossy in a bowl—boiled leaves on the side,’ sang the waiter.
1975 D. Lodge Changing Places ii. 95 A club sandwich with french fries on the side.
1988 S. H. Loomis Great Amer. Seafood Cookbk. vi. 159 Serve the remaining stuffing on the side.
2012 Church Times 23 Nov. (Books for Christmas Suppl.) p. xvi/2 Beef meatballs with broad beans and lemon,..and potato latkes on the side.
(ii) In addition to one's main job or business activity; as a supplementary source of income; as a sideline.Occasionally with implication of irregularity; cf. Phrases 1f(k)(iii).
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society > occupation and work > [adverb] > as a subsidiary occupation
on the side1891
society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [adverb] > as subsidiary source of income
on the side1891
1891 Winnipeg Free Press 21 Feb. Then there is the Major, who sometime ago was willing to become a scullion in the governor's kitchen—a nice job on the side for a newspaper man.
1898 N.Y. Jrnl. 26 Aug. 9/3 Samuel..started an ice cream parlor, with cigars, tobacco and delicatessen on the side.
1915 P. G. Wodehouse Something Fresh iv. 107 ‘I'm not asking you to be a valet and nothing else.’ ‘You would want me to do some cooking and plain sewing on the side, perhaps?’
1977 Navy News Dec. 1/3 We do not have information about how many people do jobs on the side, but I suspect that that practice is not confined to the Armed Forces.
2010 New Yorker 15 Mar. 24/3 A thirty-year-old attorney who constructs puzzles on the side.
(iii) In addition to a main activity, course of action, etc.; spec. in a clandestine or surreptitious way; secretly; illicitly.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > [adverb]
softlyc1225
by stalea1240
privilya1250
slylyc1275
thieflyc1290
stealingly13..
by stealth1390
stalworthlya1400
theftfullyc1400
theftlyc1400
theftuouslyc1400
under veilc1425
thievishly?c1450
by theft1488
quietly1488
furtively1490
by surreption1526
hugger-muggera1529
in hugger-mugger1529
underhand1538
insidiously1545
creepingly1548
surreptiously1573
underboard1582
filchingly1583
sneakingly1598
underwater1600
slipperily1603
thief-likea1625
clandestinely1632
surreptitiously1643
thievously1658
clancularly1699
stownlins1786
stealthily1806
underhandedly1806
stolen-wise1813
on (upon, under, or by) the sly1818
round-the-corner1820
underhanded1823
stealthfully1828
slinkingly1830
slippingly1830
on the sneak?1863
sneakishly1867
behind backs1874
stalkingly1891
on the side1893
under the counter1926
underground1935
under the table1938
down and dirty1959
sneakily1966
1893 Congress. Rec. 18 Dec. 360/1 He will have no pension attorney, for a silent partner, no relative doing business ‘on the side’ with that bureau.
1904 N.Y. Times 22 June 3 To attend the big fair and receive the entertainment of St. Louis on the side.
1937 D. L. Sayers Zeal of thy House ii. 44 Pocketing commissions and that sort of thing? Doing little deals on the side?
1995 J. Cameron Vinnie got blown Away 108 Anyone you know bought a new video? Course not, too dear. Everyone knew some geezer get one on the side.
2010 Observer 17 Jan. (Escape section) 7/4 A holiday with a bit of volunteering on the side.
(iv) With reference to a sexual partner or relationship: in addition to one's spouse or partner; outside of one's marriage or romantic relationship.bit on the side: see bit on the side n. b at bit n.2 and adj.2 Phrases 1h.
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1926 A. H. Frederick You've never lived in Hollywood 20 Now B.F. was well satisfied His wife should be thus occupied With the young man from France, For it gave him a chance To play round a bit on the side—Yes, more than a bit on the side.
1927 P. MacDonald Patrol xiii. 140 Queer 'ow folks looks at this goin' on the side. I wouldn't do it at 'ome, o' course.
1968 R. L. Hudson Grace is not Blue-eyed Blond xi. 145 What would some of you say if I told you that I, as a married man, have had three women on the side?
1977 Gay News 24 Mar. 14/4 They may..gear their expectations to include sexual contacts on the side.
1993 J. Green It: Sex since Sixties 32 We'd sneak into public lavatories—this was on the side, I was married—jack up our heroin and then screw up against the wall.
2013 Daily Tel. 27 Nov. 28/7 The realisation your other half has been selfishly having some on the side is a shocking betrayal.
(l) on the wrong side of history: at variance with the (likely) thought, practice, or judgement of the future; at odds with how commentators view (or are likely to view) an issue or action retrospectively. Similarly on the (right) side of history: in line with (likely) thought, practice or judgement of the future; coincident with the way in which commentators view (or are likely to view) an issue or action retrospectively.
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1912 Evening Democrat (Fort Madison, Iowa) 17 Oct. 8/3 Slanderers of Roosevelt and progressiveism will find themselves later on the wrong side of history.
1946 Amendm. Social Security Act: Hearings before Comm. Ways & Means (U.S. House of Representatives, 79th Congr., 2nd Sess.) 1 vii. 822 Perhaps the greatest satisfaction, as we look back upon our lives would be to know that we were on the right side and not on the wrong side of history.
1961 S. Monas in tr. M. Zoshchenko Scenes from Bathhouse (1962) p. ix When an employee..has her hand burned by the poker, the old peasant shows himself surprisingly on the side of history and suggests to the manager of the establishment a rationalization of his work.
2013 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 9 Apr. a15 When she denounced Nelson Mandela's liberation movement as a ‘typical terrorist organization’ and rejected calls for sanctions.., Margaret Thatcher found herself on the wrong side of history.
†g. through the sides of, through a person's sides: by means of (one person or thing) so as to harm another indirectly. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > indirect action or process > [adverb]
sidelya1425
through the sides of?1560
collaterally1610
by the waya1616
sidewise1654
secretly1656
slantinglya1677
ambagiously1678
circuitously1797
sideways1876
in-circle1883
?1560 T. Norton Orations of Arsanes sig. C.iij He woundeth our common weale indirectly through the sides of our neyghbours.
1601 Bp. W. Barlow Def. Protestants Relig. iv. 164 Bellarmine thinkes that master Caluin (whom this pamphleter woundeth through the Puritans sides) is wrongfully challenged in this point.
1684 J. Bunyan Holy Life in Wks. (1855) II. 527 There are many that..watch for an opportunity to speak against him, even through the sides of those that profess him.
1699 M. Henry Life P. Henry in C. Wordsworth Eccl. Biogr. (1818) VI. 268 That the name of God..be not blasphemed, nor religion wounded through their sides.
1742 Politicks in Miniature 4 Witness ye Gods! that through my Sides they strike at You.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1768 I. 305 About this time Dr. Kenrick attacked him, through my sides, in a pamphlet.
1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod Introd. §33 The other party, who..were not sparing in their severity, but wounded the ordinance itself through the sides of its defender.
1840 Rev. Managem. Affairs China 5 They had inflicted many a wound upon us through the sides of the Company, which served as a breakwater between our wrath and their insolence.
h. to one (also the, †a) side. Cf. on (the) one side at Phrases 1f(f).
(a) In one or other direction leaning away from the vertical or horizontal. Also in figurative contexts.
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1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 316 Inclining it now to one side, now to an other, gather all the drops together that cleue vnto the sides.
?1574 T. Hill Contempl. Myst. f. 66v Seneca nameth it an inclynation, in that the earth leaneth to one side, like a ship.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 159 He..shall live in this world uprightly and in even ballance, without enclining more to one side, than unto another.
1650 tr. J. A. Comenius Janua Linguarum Reserata §538 Beginning to totter and reel (swerve and lean to a side) it [sc. a house] must needs be shored up with some arch.
1701 Candidates Try'd 4 Them who are against having the Constitution alter'd, and the Balance incline so much to one side.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Parliament-heel, the situation of a ship, when she is made to stoop a little to one side.
1782 Monro's Anat. Human Bones (new ed.) 126 From each side..a bony bridge is produced backwards, and to a side.
1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1879) App. 715 An immediate pleurosthotonos, or bending of the body to one side.
1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders 55 May Mischief seemed to incline her ear, tipping it a little to the side to listen.
1955 A. Atkinson Exit Charlie (1957) iv. 136 His black hat was very slightly tilted to one side.
2010 D. Hewson Blue Demon ii. v. 145 He adopted a pose—fingers tented, head to one side—that appeared very much that of an indignant academic.
(b) Out of the way; aside; spec. in a separate place, to be dealt with or considered later; out of account or consideration.
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1601 tr. M. Martínez 9th Pt. Mirrour of Knight-hood xvi. sig. X4v For leaping a little to one side, the horse mist to runne vpon him, hee giuing a gallant blow.
a1688 J. Bunyan Israel's Hope Encouraged in Wks. (1855) I. 600 It would be too great a step to a side to treat of all those mercies.
1750 G. Neale tr. Mem. Royal Acad. Surg. Paris II. xxi. 541/1 If it [sc. the stone] is small, we push it to one side with the fingers, while we extract it from the other.
1786 C. Varlo Essence Agric. xxxi. 143 The boards being loose are quickly thrown to one side.
1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch xxii. 333 ‘Keep to a side,’ cried Tommy Staytape, ‘for..Moosey'll maybe hae a pistol.’
1887 Contemp. Rev. Jan. 64 It must..be understood that I place his private character entirely to one side.
1963 Negro Digest Jan. 73/2 Russell came out then and stood over to the side while the others crowded around to shake my hands.
1988 B. W. Aldiss Forgotten Life iv. 101 George pushed his plate to one side and sipped his wine.
2004 D. Dalton Rough Guide Philippines 50/2 A place where class differences are temporarily put to one side and everyone wears flip-flops and vest.
(c) to take (a person) to one side and variants: to engage (a person) in a private conversation, esp. in order to warn or admonish him or her. Cf. to take (a person) on one side at Phrases 1f(f)(iv).
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1634 G. Baker tr. A. Paré Apol. in T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xxix. 1166 The Prince.., drew me to one side, and askt me if the wound was mortall.
1668 F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue II. xxxvii. 356 He took me to one side, and privately told me all his design.
1799 W. Wennington tr. A. H. J. Lafontaine Man of Nature xlvii. 434 Russell took him to one side. ‘Hear me, my dearest William!’
1880 Testimony relating to Election 1st & 2nd Districts Ohio 154 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (46th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Misc. Doc. 23) II He was called to one side and informed that there was a lot of Kentucky fellows about the polls.
1917 Blacksmiths Jrnl. Mar. 26/2 It was with a sad and sorryful heart that I led Van to one side and explained things.
2010 A. J. Mackinnon Well at World's End i. 88 Maggie took me to one side and gave me another of her stern sisterly talkings-to.
P2. Noun phrases.
side of bone n. either of the two series of baleen sheets in the mouth of a (baleen) whale.
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1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions I. 456 Each series, or ‘side of bone’, as the whalefishers term it, consists of upwards of 300 laminæ.
1866 J. E. Gray Catal. Seals & Whales Brit. Mus. (ed. 2) 75 The fins or whalebones of each series together are called a ‘side of bone’; the largest are in the middle, whence they gradually diminish away to nothing at each extremity.
1918 Chambers's Jrnl. 8 552/2 One ‘side’ of bone is brought up at a time, and the heaving on board of this enormous mass evokes the keenest interest.
2001 H. Rossiter Lady Spy, Gentleman Explorer ii. 49 The two sides of bone were removed from the mouth and hung in the rigging.
2005 Jrnl. Mammol. 86 343/1 A rack or side of baleen consists of all the baleen laminae from either the right or left side of the mouth still embedded in the gum.]
† side of work n. Coal Mining Obsolete a rectangular working or panel (panel n.1 8b).
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > compartment of coal-mine
side of work1820
panel1839
1820 Edinb. Encycl. (1830) XIV. 355/2 As the sides of work were extended, a certain degree of pressure came upon the work.
1854 Mining Mag. 2 7 From the thickness of the seam, and the height of the stalls in the sides of work, or chambers, in which this coal is wrought, fire-damp accumulates near the roof.
1867 W. W. Smyth Treat. Coal & Coal-mining 136 From this latter the main workings, called sides of work, are opened in the form of a square or parallelogram.
1906 T. H. Cockin Elem. Class-bk. Pract. Coal-mining (ed. 2) xiv. 172 Each side of work is enclosed by a barrier of coal 10 yards thick. The inside dimensions of a side of work are about 46 yards by 64 yards.
1921 F. H. Wilson Coal vii. 29 The seam is cut out into sides of work.
P3. Phrases with this, other, both, etc.Prepositional phrases with this, other, both, etc., are treated at Phrases 1.
a. colloquial. (on) this (also the other, etc.) side of the water (also pond, puddle , etc.): in one of two countries or regions divided by a sea or ocean. Later esp.: (with reference to the Atlantic Ocean) North America as regarded by Western Europe, esp. Britain, and vice versa. Also elliptical, as this side (see also other side n. 4b).
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the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > specific seas > [adverb] > on one or other side of Atlantic
(on) this (also the other, etc.) side of the water (also pond, puddle , etc.)1529
1529 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 20 Ther is now ane fair to be hald on that vther syd of the walter, that is to say in Sanct Monanis.
1689 in Harl. Misc. (1746) VIII. 603/1 My sometime Friends and Allies on the other Side of the Herring-pond.
1720 Mrs. Bradshaw in Countess of Suffolk Lett. (1824) I. 69 You..do not give one the least account how things go on your side of the water.
1784 J. Read Let. 6 Aug. in G. Washington Papers (1992) Confederation Ser. II. 25 The Inclosed Copy of a Letter..will perhaps give you some..Curious information..on the subject of Pollitics on the other side of the Water.
1841 Kendall's Expositor 1 199/2 As soon as he reached the other side of the pond, Uncle Sam compelled him to measure off and give him one-fifth or twenty per cent. of the balance.
1870 Centennial Celebration of Rutgers College 22 Many people on this side, of conservative turn, thought a man could not preach the gospel properly unless he came with the imprimatur of the Classis of Amsterdam.
1914 Rotarian Dec. 10 Many of the ‘stunts’ that appeal to an American will simply bring the movement into ridicule on this side.
1978 SLR Camera Aug. 21/1 For many years the American company..have made fine enlarging frames (masking frames this side of the puddle).
1993 Irish Times (Nexis) 10 June 13 Its account of Irish women's experience in London has been ignored and dismissed on both sides of the water as anecdotal.
2010 Financial Times 5 June 14 (headline) US earnings good news for this side of the pond.
b. the other side of the hill and variants.
(a) The latter part of life; old or middle age. Cf. over the hill at hill n. 1e.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > old age > [noun]
eld971
old agec1330
agec1380
last agea1382
oldc1385
aldereldea1400
winterc1425
vilessec1430
annosityc1450
senectute1481
the black ox1546
golden years1559
years1561
great1587
afterlife1589
setting sun1597
antiquity1600
chair-daysa1616
the vale of yearsa1616
grandevity1623
green old age1634
eldship1647
senioritya1688
the other side of the hill1691
the decline of life1711
senectude1756
senility1791
senectitude1796
post-climacteric1826
Anno Domini1885
senium1911
golden age1946
1691 T. Shadwell Scowrers 17 Tho she is declining, she is but a little on the other side of the Hill, and looks well and lusty.
1898 J. Paton Castlebraes iii. 68 The tender and true affection that leads them on and on, down the other side of Life's Hill.
1957 C. Smith Case of Torches i. 5 I had to go through a lot of badinage..about..how old I was getting and what it was like on the other side of the hill.
2005 Independent 17 Aug. (Features section) 34 At 54 years old, Seymour shows that the other side of the hill need not be so bad.
(b) Those aspects of a situation which are unknown at present; (Military) the enemy position or activities.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > that which is unknown > [noun] > instance of
terra incognita1616
indeterminable1646
X1808
unknown1829
incognita1846
the other side of the hill1852
terra ignotaa1925
another country1952
society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [noun] > enemy position or activities
the other side of the hill1960
1852 Duke of Wellington in Croker Papers (1884) III. xxviii. 275 We amused ourselves by guessing what sort of a country we should find at the other side of the hills we drove up... When I expressed surprise at some extraordinary good guesses he [sc. Croker] had made, he said, ‘Why, I have spent all my life in trying to guess what was at the other side of the hill.’
1888 Chambers's Jrnl. 3 Nov. 690/2 When that trustee made the kindly mistake of becoming a trustee at all, could he have conjectured what was on ‘the other side of the hill?’
1926 C. B. Waterlow in H. Golding Wonder Bk. of Motors 12 It is not only what is on the other side of the hill that matters, but everything along the road.
1960 G. Martelli Agent Extraordinary 15 I..wish..to express my gratitude..to [the]..technical director of the flying bomb sites..for allowing me a glimpse of the ‘other side of the hill’.
1978 Times 30 Jan. 13/2 Mr Peyton..began to argue for a revalued green pound... He..correctly read what was on the other side of the hill (that is, the Government itself would soon have to revalue).
1981 Ld. Chalfont in B. Netanyāhû Internat. Terrorism (1989) 81 In any military operation, accurate intelligence—the ability to see what is ‘on the other side of the hill’—is of crucial importance. Without it commanders are blind.
2006 Contra Costa (Calif.) Times (Nexis) 5 Apr. I've always been attracted by the unknown. I've always wanted to see what lies on the other side of that hill.
c. With reference to a coin.
(a) two sides of the same coin and variants: two things, processes, etc., which are closely related or interdependent even though they seem different; two different aspects of the same situation or phenomenon.
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1879 Puck (N.Y.) 13 Aug. 363/1 Laughter and tears are but the reverse sides of the same coin.
1923 Amer. Hist. Rev. 28 455 It was necessary to be knighted to be a chevalier, to be a noble. Nobility and knighthood were two sides of the same coin.
1966 Listener 19 May 713/1 The social and psychological pressures are not different things but often just different sides of the same penny.
2005 Time Out N.Y. 25 Apr. 167/2 Book of Love poignantly reminds us that tragedy and personal growth are two sides of the same coin.
†(b) to know both sides of a penny: to be experienced in the ways of the world; ‘to know what's what.’ Obsolete. rare.
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1899 W. Raymond No Soul above Money i. iii. 58 He knew both sides of a penny, for all he looked so daft.
(c) the other side of the coin (also penny, etc.): a thing or person which provides a contrast with another; esp. a contrasting aspect of a situation; an alternative account, point of view, etc.; cf. the reverse of the medal at medal n. 4.See also the other side of the shield at shield n. 1d.
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1904 W. B. Yeats Let. 20 Jan. (1994) III. 528 ‘The Shadowy Waters’..[is] more a ritual than a human story... ‘Cuchullain’ or ‘The King's Threshold’ are the other side of the halfpenny.
1904 W. B. Yeats Let. Apr. (1994) III. 576 I am reckless in mere speach that is not written. You are the other side of the penny for you are admirably careful in speach.
1920 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 June 398/4 The other side of the coin is, of course, the doubt whether Linda could indeed be happy..to return to her Alps.
1975 M. Russell Murder by Mile ix. 92 Angus Hamilton's..to address members and answer questions. He thought it might present an opportunity to put across the other side of the coin.
2005 Publican 27 June 20/2 The other side of the coin is that the closeness of the relationship can also bring out the parties' differences.
P4. to take (also †hold) sides, to take a side, and variants: to support one person, group, cause, etc., against another in a conflict or debate. Frequently with with. Also to take a person's side, to take the side of: to support (a particular person, group, etc.) in a conflict or debate.
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society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > side with [verb (transitive)]
to take (a) part witha1470
to hold sides1490
to take the part ofc1500
partake1546
follow1548
side1585
party1587
part1669
the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > support or encourage [verb (transitive)] > take someone's side or side with
favoura1375
to stand with ——1384
takec1400
to take (a) part witha1470
to hold sides1490
to take the part ofc1500
to stick with ——1523
partake1546
follow1548
to join issue1551
to make with ——1559
favourize1585
side1585
party1587
to take in1597
part1669
to fall in1709
to take for ——1770
to take up for1824
range1874
society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > join or form a party or take sides [verb (intransitive)]
to stand in1555
to fall ina1568
partialize1592
side1609
party1656
to take (also hold) sides1700
(to be) on a person's, the other side of the fence1852
the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > support or encourage [verb (intransitive)] > take someone's part
party1586
seconda1609
to take sides1719
(to be) on a person's, the other side of the fence1852
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) ix. 238 Nevertheles he came, and helde syde wyth his broder.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 829/2 Through the discord of the messengers and captaines, taking sides one against ye other, they made their enemies stronge & infeabled themselues.
1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xli. sig. G11 Hee loues not deeper mutualities, because he would not take sides.
1649 J. Ricraft Civill Warres (new ed.) v. 29 Upon the eruption of the civil war, he took the side of the parliament, but afterward attached himself to the king.
1663 Crimes & Treasons A. Johnston 9 Warreston was the only fit man resolved on to prosecute the Cabel, and to hold sides with the Remonstrants.
1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite iii, in Fables 70 The nicest Eye cou'd no Distinction make, Where lay the Advantage, or what Side to take.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 290 He would take my Side to the last Drop of his Blood.
1751 F. Coventry Hist. Pompey the Little ii. xvi. 258 The Beaux, and Belles, and Witlings..soon began to take Sides in the Dispute, 'till at length it became one universal Scene of Wrangle.
1823 J. Keble Serm. (1848) ii. 38 Careful always to take the safe side in practice.
1877 C. H. Spurgeon Serm. XXIII. 398 Weak-minded people who cannot take sides with a persecuted truth.
1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men II. xi. 317 Every resident of mark found himself in a measure compelled to take a side.
1942 National Geographic Mag. June 696/2 Sandalwood drew many adventurous ship captains to the island; whites took sides with native chiefs in fierce internecine warfare.
1985 D. Lucie Hard Feelings ii. iii, in Progress & Hard Feelings 80/1 You sat on the fence when you could have taken my side.
1997 R. Bennett Catastrophist (1999) 177 How can you be from Ireland and not take a side?
2013 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 7 Nov. 55/1 I had to take sides about this deep issue of moral theory.
P5. Scottish. side for side: close together and facing or moving in the same direction; also figurative; = side by side adv. 1. Now rare.
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1529 in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (1849) 2 63 (note) Their plouche is drawen be foure beastis going syde for syde.
1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. clxxxviii. 463 That proud thing, myself, will not play, except it ride up side for side with Christ.
1663 (?a1500) Pleasant Hist. Roswall & Lillian sig. A4v Side for side, hand for hand rode they.
a1688 J. Wallace Descr. Orkney (1693) iv. 78 In the year 1680 the Lightning enter'd a Gentlemans Cow-stall, where were twelve Cows standing side for side, as they used to be, and killed every other one.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. III. 427/2 To keep one's foot side for side with that of another.
1832 A. Cunningham Let. 27 Oct. in W. Chambers Mem. R. Chambers (1872) x. 219 Scottish tastes and feelings seemed to go side for side with my own.
1987 B. Holton tr. S. Nai'an Men o the Mossflow ii, in Sc. Corpus Texts & Speech Side for side the twa gaed doun on their knees.
P6. to split (also break, burst, etc.) one's sides and variants: to be convulsed with laughter; to laugh heartily or uncontrollably. Also to split a person's sides and variants: to cause a person to go into convulsions of laughter.In quot. 1598 perhaps with allusion to sense 4.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > laugh in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > laugh convulsively or immoderately
chuckle1598
to split (also break, burst, etc.) one's sides1598
to die with, or of laughing1609
to hold one's sides1609
to laugh till (also until) one cries1611
split1688
to burst one's sides1712
shake1729
to shake one's sides1736
to laugh oneself sick (also silly)1773
roll1819
to laugh one's head off1871
to break up1895
to fall about1918
pee1946
1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie iii. x. sig. H3 O I am great with mirth, some midwifrie, Or I shall breake my sides at vanitie.
1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 108 Laugh & spare not So't be in priuate, burst thy sides with laughter.
1660 J. Bellamy tr. Origen Against Celsus ii. xxxi. 150 The pretended Jew goes on, and is ready to split his Sides with Laughing, at the Earth-quake.
1704 T. Brown Cal. Reform'd in Duke of Buckingham et al. Misc. Wks. 230 You'd break a Man's sides with Laughing.
1705 C. Cibber Careless Husband iii. 35 Seeing us ready to split our sides in laughing at nothing, ha! ha!
1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses iii. 13 You would have burst your sides to hear him talk Politicks.
1821 W. Hazlitt Table-talk I. xvi. 379 A fashionable Miss titters till she is ready to burst her sides at the uncouth shape of a bonnet.
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. li. 83 Tom Scott..bade fair to split his sides with laughing.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. iv. [Calypso] 62 Break your neck and we'll break our sides.
1925 Princeton Alumni Weekly 18 Feb. 450/1 Unbelievable and original surprises are being prepared to delight your hearts and split your sides.
1953 J. M. Brewer Word on Brazos 66 Dey gonna..crack dey sides laffin' when..de ghostes staa'ts to comin' in.
2014 Daily Mirror (Nexis) 27 June 11 The viewing millions..who simply want to split their sides at the sight of a man in drag falling over and showing his knickers.
P7. Sport (chiefly British). —— a-side (with preceding numeral, as eleven-a-side, fifteen-a-side, etc.).See also five-a-side adv., seven-a-side adv.
a. As an adverb: with the specified number of players on each team.
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society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [adjective] > types of
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close-run1813
foursome1814
lightweight1823
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one-sided1839
scratch1851
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all-comers1860
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pegged-down1908
JV1923
zero-sum1944
tie-breaking1970
1829 Sheffield Independent 24 Oct. To make a full match, eleven a-side, for any sum which may be proposed.
1918 G. M. Knocker Let. 15 Feb. in Diary & Lett. World War I Fighter Pilot (2008) 149 This afternoon there are going to be inter-flight soccer games, 6-a-side, 10 minutes each way.
1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 30 June 484/2 It is now over a century since it [sc. shinty] was played, seventy-five or so a-side.
2001 T. Melville Early Baseball & Rise of National League i. 12 This club insisting on only playing ‘old style’ baseball, eleven-a-side, with only two innings per game.
b. As an adjective: designating a match, type of sport, etc., played with the specified number of players on each team. Cf five-a-side adj.
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1865 Bell's Life in London 2 Dec. 7/6 Sixth Form V the School—This the great eleven a side match of the season came off on Nov 10.
1900 Sc. Sport 13 Apr. 6/1 Melrose..will tomorrow resound with a Babel of tongues..eager and excited over the first of the Border seven-a-side tournaments.
1901 R. H. Lyttelton Out-door Games ii. 52 The playground where I first learned the elements of eleven-a-side cricket was more like a hayfield than a cricket ground.
1973 J. M. White Garden Game 104 We do sanction two-a-side encounters from time to time, or even three-a-side.
1992 Rugby World & Post Mar. 60/3 The Australians have decided to concentrate on sevens with the same singlemindedness that won them the 15-a-side title last year.
c. As a noun: a game or match with the specified number of players on each team.See also five-a-side n., seven-a-side n.
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1883 Evening News 28 Apr. 1/6 Barnes is behind Mr. G. P. Studd in all matches, but he did manage to occasionally make 20 in the eleven-a-sides.
1933 Scotsman 3 Apr. 14/5 The Berwick High School Girls Six-a-Sides.
1968 M. MacPherson New Tenants i/ 8 Sandy came puffing back exclaiming, ‘We could play four-a-sides.’
1996 J. Murray Reiver Blues 80 Frequently their family three-a-sides lasted ten hours or more.
2015 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 29 Sept. 20 There are little four-a-side kickabouts for tots, seven-a-sides for up to 11-year-olds, then full 11-a-sides for all the teenage years.
P8. Originally and chiefly British. to play for the side and variants: to play a sport in such a way as to help one's team win, without aiming at personal distinction; (in extended use) to put the interests of one's team or group above one's personal interests.Chiefly associated with British public schools.
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1882 Marlburian 1 Mar. 30/2 The School play though individually good was far too selfish; we must remember to play for our side not for ourselves.
1898 E. W. Howson & G. T. Warner Harrow School xxii. 239 That golden maxim, ‘Cricketers should play for their side, and not always be thinking about their averages, and individual performances.’
1916 Times 9 June 11/3 They played for the side; they gave up their own amusements for the good of the regiment.
1925 E. F. Norton in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 102 A year, when, to a conspicuous degree, all played for the side.
1933 G. Heyer Why shoot Butler? vi. 86 The Public School Spirit, and Playing for the Side, and all that wash.
2005 Hindustan Times (Nexis) 21 Dec. The theme within the Indian team is to play for the side and not worry about individual performances.
P9. on the wrong side of the blanket, on the right side of the blanket: see blanket n. and adj. Phrases 2. to know on which side one's bread is buttered, bread buttered on both sides: see bread n. Phrases 4. on the other side of the fence: see fence n. 5c. to laugh on the other side of one's face: see laugh v. Phrases 1g. to have the laugh on one's side: see laugh n. Phrases 2a. to let the side down: see to let down 2 at let v.1 Phrasal verbs. the other side of the shield: see shield n. 1d. short back and sides: see short adj., n., and adv. Compounds 6a. to play both sides of the street, to work both sides of the street: see street n. and adj. Phrases 9. sunny side up: see sunny side n. and adj.. a thorn in the side: see thorn n. 2. a walk on the wild side: see walk n.1 Phrases 6. to get out of bed on the wrong side: see wrong adj. 10g.

Compounds

C1. attributive.In some of the following compounds the attributive use of side may be interpreted as adjectival.
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(a) With the sense ‘situated or lying towards the side; situated beside or alongside something’.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately.
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a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 4565 Þe real rinkes..at þe heiȝe dese, & alle oþer afterward on þe side benches.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 482 In his time..men began at Rome to bestow siluer vpon their cupboords and side liuery tables.
1776 Ann. Reg. 1775 i. 117 13 culverts, 8 side trunks, and 4 weirs.
1852 R. Fortune Journey to Tea Countries China iii. 45 The first-class passengers occupied the side-berths.
1951 Oxf. Junior Encycl. IV. 343/2 The traditional plan of a side corridor connecting separate compartments has given place..to open coaches with a central gangway.
1989 A. Aird 1990 Good Pub Guide 31 An attractive side garden has a wooden sun house and a butterfly reserve.
2009 M. J. Fisher Terrible Splendor iii. 126 A day before the tournament Tilden had been practicing on a side court when some photographers showed up.
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side aisle n.
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1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare i. iii. 3 Suche be their Priuate Masses for the most parte, sayde in side Iles, alone, without companie of people.
1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 6 Jan. in French & Ital. Notebks. (1980) i. 9 Here in the recess of every arch of the side-aisles..there was a chapel.
2011 D. Cheney In my Time xiii. 428 President Putin..strode up the side aisle and immediately onto the stage.
side altar n.
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1448 in S. A. Moore Lett. & Papers J. Shillingford (1871) i. 48 (MED) When my lorde hadde seide his prayers atte high auter, he went a part to the syde auter by hym self.
1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany x. 166 Among the side-altars I observed one dedicated to Saint Anne.
2001 R. Russo Empire Falls xx. 325 He lit a candle and knelt at the side altar to offer a prayer of gratitude.
side bench n.
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a1375Side bench [see Compounds 1a(a)].
1789 W. Hutton Descr. Blackpool 32 Side-benches, at certain distances, with ends and backs, to screen off the wind, and covers to prevent the rain, would be suitable conveniences.
2008 East & West 58 359 The side benches facilitated the descent into the shaft.
side chamber n.
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1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xli. 9 The foundacion of the syde chambres was a meterodde (that is sixe cubites) brode.
1799 A. Plumptre tr. F. Matthisson Lett. ii. xxvii. 311 This habitation consists of..a large hall, two side chambers, two stair-cases.
2006 K. Pratt Everlasting Flower (2007) i. 44 The burial goods they took with them into the next life were usually piled in a side chamber.
side chancel n.
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1571 Minute Bk. Parish St. Margaret's Church, Lothbury in J. W. Legg Clerk's-bk. (1903) App. iv. 73 The parishe shall have for breakinge the grownd for a pyt, in the side chanselles x s.
1794 P. Parsons Monuments & Painted Glass Churches Eastern Kent 241 In a side chancel, against the wall; a large marble monument.
2014 Loughborough Echo (Nexis) 21 Nov. 4 (caption) The remains of a side chancel in Ypres Cathedral in Belgium, severely damaged by the heavy fighting around the town.
side channel n.
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1708 G. Vaux tr. J. C. Sturm Mathesis Juvenilis II. iii. ix.131 The Tenia above the Freeze, and its Side Channel.
1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 97/2 The sides [of the roadway], where the water is received into the gutters, or side channels.
1999 J. Raban Passage to Juneau i. 28 Eells's parishioners were the Skokomish Indians on the southern crook of the Hood Canal, a side channel to Puget Sound.
side chapel n.
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1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1785/1 The next day it [sc. the corps of Queene Mary] was brought into the new Chappell, where King Henry the seuenth lyeth, and there in the side Chappell it was enterred.
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. iii. 79 The space of a large side-chapel was taken up by the tombs of the Debarrys.
2011 Church Times 25 Nov. 14/3 Most of the chairs had been removed from the nave and side chapel.
side drain n.
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1740 G. Nelson Wonders Nature 68 The Aquæducts and Side-drains..preserve them [sc. roads] from the Injuries of violent Rains.
1971 N. Hudson Soil Conservation xiii. 239 For roads on gentle gradients open side drains are required only on the upper side.
side gate n.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > opening which may be passed through > gate or gateway > side- or back-gate
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posternc1300
postern gatea1375
hinder gatec1400
back-gate1442
side gate1600
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxiv. 879 The two legions he commaunded to issue forth under their coulors at the two side gates called Principales.
1814 Selby & M. Weighton Road Act ii. 5 When any new side gate or side gates shall be erected.
2007 New Yorker 24 Dec. 61/1 I sloped out through the side gate.
side outlet n.
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1819 6th Rep. Select Comm. Road London to Holyhead App. 106 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 549) V. 223 Good gravelling, should be extended in breadth quite to each fence, with slopes on each side, of about nine inches below the middle of the road, to receive and conduct the water to the..side outlets.
1972 L. M. Harris Introd. Deepwater Floating Drilling Operations x. 98 The subsea blowout-preventer stack..should have two side outlets for the choke and kill-line connections.
side passage n.
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1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike lvi. 419 The Ileon is extended, perhaps for 40 turns, as well from the back forwards, as with a side passage on both sides.
1831 W. Scott Count Robert iii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. I. 81 Side passages opened into it.
2014 R. W. Brucker & R. A. Watson in C. Burns & K. Burns Adventure at High Risk 130 Phil explored a side passage while Bill went on down the main canyon.
side room n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room by situation > [noun] > side room
side room1698
ala1764
sitooterie1920
1698 M. Lister Journey to Paris 205 In the middle an Octogon-hall, running up Dome-wise, in which all the side Rooms meet.
1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain I. ii. 35 Our repast..we ate in a little side room with a mud floor.
2005 S. G. Lydon Knitting Heaven & Earth xvi. 192 Judith's clothes were in two large closets in the side room she used for her study.
side valley n.
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1821 H. E. Lloyd tr. M. von Engelhardt in tr. O. von Kotzebue Voy. Discov. South Sea & Beering's Straits III. App. 343 As the one coast (the Asiatic) is said to be steep, the opposite one flat, they are to each as the banks of a river and side valleys, forming by running waters.
1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey I. 299 At last we struck up a side valley.
2011 Y. Brauen Across Many Mountains 35 The nomads..hid in a side valley until they heard the soldiers had left the area.
side ward n.
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1838 W. C. Ellis Treat. Nature, Symptoms, Causes, & Treatm. Insanity viii. 272 There should be a dining room on each floor..for the two side wards.
a1966 M. Allingham Cargo of Eagles (1968) iii. 42 She shared a side ward..with two other old ladies.
2008 C. Campbell Under Rainbow ix. 127 A door opened, and out of a side ward appeared the nurse in charge.
side window n.
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1447–8 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 354 The wallis in height .xx. fete, with gable wyndowes and side windowes conuenient therto.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xl. 16 The chambers and their pilers within, rounde aboute vnto ye dore, had syde wyndowes.
1851 G. A. Mantell Petrifactions i. 7 The rooms are lighted by side-windows, instead of by sky-lights.
2003 L. Thompson tr. H. Mankell Return of Dancing Master (2004) iv. 47 He was driving very slowly now, with the side windows wide open.
side yard n.
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1706 Post-Man & Hist. Acct. 21 Feb. (advt.) A well built new Brick House, 4 Rooms on a Floor, with..a Side-yard with Coach-house and Stable.
1879 W. Whitman Daybks. & Notebks. (1978) I. 139 The window where I sit..opens on a spacious side-yard.
2011 C. Demas Everything I Was xviii. 81 There was no croquet lawn, they just set up the wickets in the rough side yard of the house.
b. With the sense ‘growing out to the side of a tree, plant, etc.’.
side bough n.
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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. lxi. 950 Þe syde bowes spreden [wide] aboute þe olde tree as it were ygrowe [emended in ed. to in groue], and makeþ a grete schadowe.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) II. 29 I am rather for cutting only of the Side-boughs, than heading of them.
2006 E. Schultz Joyland i. 15 Tammy..crooked her body onto a side bough that bent away from the trunk.
side branch n.
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1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. xxix. 359 The seede is smal..and it commeth in little blewish Cuppes or Sawsers, in the middest of the syde branches.
1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 80 A rapidly rising, slender, tall stem, devoid of side branches.
2014 M. Myers Mich. Month-by-month Gardening 214/2 Prune the tip of the leader back to a weak side branch to slow upward growth.
side growth n.
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1821 T. Cooper Willich's Domest. Encycl. (Amer. ed. 2) II. 146/1 Keep it cut at the top moderately every year till the side growths furnish a good fence close to the ground.
1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 256 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Trimming off such straggling side growth as may be in the way of the workmen.
2009 I. Simey in A. Drengson & D. Taylor Wild Foresting xiii. 92/2 The dying tree makes dense stubby side growth providing great nest sites and shelter.
side spray n.
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1830 Gardener's Mag. 6 146 The side spray, and the remaining third part of the stem, may be made into faggots.
1917 Standard Cycl. Hort. (ed. 2) I. 408/1 The side sprays are valuable for cut-green for florists' use.
1980 E. S. Teoh Asian Orchids v. 135 The node just below this will develop a side spray if the flower spike and the plant are strong.
† side spurn n. [spurn n.2 2] Obsolete
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1796 W. Marshall Agric. Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Midland Counties (ed. 2) II. 387 Toes; or sidespurns; the spreading roots of trees.
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(a) With the sense ‘placed, fixed, or situated in or on the side of something; forming the side of something’.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately.
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c1200 (?OE) Grave (1890) 9 Ðe helewaȝes beoð laȝe, sidwaȝes unheȝe.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. iii The driueng of his syde wedges, forewedg, and hele wedg.
1575 R. B. Apius & Virginia sig. Civ And at Symkins side ridge, my Lord stoode talking.
c1620 Treat. Shipbuilding (modernized text) in W. Salisbury & R. C. Anderson Treat. Shipbuilding & Treat. Rigging (1958) 11 Every beam of the orlop must have four side knees and two standards.
1652 Laughing Mercury No. 24. 200 No Sister of the Rant shall after the publication hereof presume to wear any Gown, Jump, Kirtle, Petticoat, or Savegard with any manner of fore-Placket, side Placket or neck Placket.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xviii. 139/1 The two side shafts make one thill.
1793 G. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Mid Lothian 45 The side standards being brought nearer to a perpendicular, are able to sustain more weight.
1848 Sci. Amer. 17 June 306/3 It is capable of carrying fifty caps at once in a side-tube, which are..presented to the percussion hammer one after another as the discharge is made.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Costato-venose, when the parallel side-veins of a feather-veined leaf are much stouter than those which intervene.
1925 Times 28 Apr. 7/4 The side sections are made of non-inflammable celluloid set in their black-finished metal frames.
1960 E. Legg Country Baskets 27 At the top, the side stakes are turned down to form the border..thus completing the basket.
2002 Woodworker Aug. 17/3 The two lower cross rails are tenoned into the side frames and also support the base.
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side armour n.
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1823 J. D. Hunter Mem. Captivity xvi. 374 He lays his long knife and tomahawk by the door..or conceals his side-armour under his breech-cloth.
1883 Whitaker's Almanack 445/2 One iron-clad.., 9-in. side armour.
1986 R. Bakker Dinosaur Heresies (1988) xii. 256 (caption) Early in the Jurassic Period, the scelidosaur clan evolved top and side armor composed of stout bony cones.
2012 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 1 Apr. 27 He briefly got the perfect firing angle to hit the tank's more vulnerable side armour.
side bolt n.
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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 306 The several parts of a Bit... The Side Bolts.
1865 ‘C. Idle’ Hints Shooting & Fishing (ed. 2) 14 The barrels and the small end of the stock are kept in their places by a side bolt.
2000 P. Vincent Mountain Bike Maintenance 83/2 Undo the top Allen bolt followed by the side bolt.
side chest n.
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1715 T. Pyle Paraphr. Acts of Apostles II. 276 In the second [part of the Tabernacle] were placed..the Golden Censer..and the Ark..; in the Side Chests whereof were put the Golden Pot of Manna, and Aaron's Rod that Budded.
1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. ii. 23 Along the sides of the waggon and outside it are two longer and narrower chests called side-chests... The side-chests are very convenient for holding tools.
2013 T. Moser How to build Shaker Furnit. v. 110 What we call the side chest had its origin in the work counter of a weaving room in New Lebanon.
side crust n.
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1733 V. La Chapelle Mod. Cook II. i. 13 Then put your Ingredients over an Abbess, with a side Crust ready made and spread in the bottom of a Baking-pan.
1858 Ohio Farmer May 76/1 Put a side crust round the pan and lay the chickens in.
2008 W. Zhou & N. Therdthai in S. Şumnu & S. Sahin Food Engin. Aspects ix. 185 Moisture loss during bread baking was mainly from the crust part including top crust, side crust, and bottom crust.
side hair n.
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1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke iv. v. f. lxxxxiv Anacletus first forbad priestes to haue beardes, or long side heere.
1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations xxx, in All Year Round 6 Apr. 26/1 He pulled up his shirt-collar, twined his side-hair.
2012 Sheffield Tel. (Nexis) 27 Sept. The Liverpool-born comic with the bald pate and long side hair.
side iron n.
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1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Azicates de espuelas The side irons of spurs, Calcarium costæ.
1772 W. Bailey Advancem. Arts, Manuf., & Commerce I. i. vii. 41 The Shafts are made straight from their points, back to the bolt L; and from thence, to the side-irons of the share, they are bent to a segment of a circle.
1895 A. Conan Doyle in Strand Mag. July 5/1 Rataplan sent up two feathers of steam from his nostrils, while the icicles drooped from the side-irons of his bit.
1995 Irish Times 30 Sept. 26/6 (advt.) A Victorian brass bed—4′ 6″ with side iron.
side key n.
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1728 R. Morris Ess. Anc. Archit. 78 If the Key[stone] be double, the Side-Key is ⅓ of the Width.
1870 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1868 II. 95/1 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 52) X To grind the edges, the side key is removed.
1900 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 11 Aug. 20580/1 This rail was held in cast-iron chairs by side keys or wedges.
side netting n.
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1825 Q. Reg. June p. cxv The Bridge is hardly four feet wide within the side netting.
1876 J. Grant Morley Ashton II. xii. 126 The ship is pitching so; better stay where you are, and hold on by the side netting.
2014 C. Parrish & J. Nauright Soccer around World 52 The ball..ricocheted off the underside of the crossbar and into the side netting for what turned out to be the game-winning goal.
side paddle n.
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1826 U.S. Tel. 31 Oct. The objections made to the use of steam boats with side paddles.
1898 Daily News 10 May 6/2 A big thousand ton side-paddle frigate.
2005 Irish Arts Rev. 22 101/1 Both vessels..employ screw propulsion rather than the unwieldy and vulnerable side paddles.
sidepin n.
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1808 Monthly Mag. Oct. 462/2 A view of the common screw-press, in which is shown the side-pin, or screw, by which the clams are firmly pressed together.
1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 262 Turn out the side-pins, and remove the locks and hammers together.
2000 Keyways (Master Locksmiths' Assoc.) Feb. 33/1 It provides 1.9 billion usable combinations and incorporates..a sidebar with five sidepins.
side prop n.
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1605 W. Wilkes Obedience 18 The want of your side propts, will make them studye to goe vpright as they ought.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. 60 To take care that this stone lies firm upon solid ground, and..do not indeed take its support from some side-props.
2013 D. Blackman & B. Rankov Shipsheds Anc. Mediterranean a. xiii. 256/2 Lateral support could have been provided not just by the insertion of props underneath the hull but also by rubbing strips and side props.
side rein n.
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1836 Essex Standard 8 Jan. Charged..on suspicion of having stolen one side rein, the property of some person unknown.
1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 347/1 He [sc. a colt] is led about by the cavesson,..without any side-reins being attached.
2003 A. Goodfellow & N. Golding Whispering Back (2004) iii. 41 She disliked..the side reins we bought her, and would constantly move her head around, trying to get rid of the pressure.
side rod n.
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1763 in tr. N. A. Pluche Spectacle de la Nature (rev. ed.) VI. (Explanation of Plates) p. v The long Side Rods..keep the Hoops steady together.
1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 306 The Feed-Pump..is also worked by side-rods.
2000 Model Railroader Feb. 85/3 Bowser has located the holes and bushings for the piston rods..to ensure clearance between the crosshead and side rods.
side seam n.
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1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid i. iii. 49 The storme ourset, raif ruvis and syde semis.
1731 Contract 2 June in Mariner's Mirror (1924) 10 41 Striped Ticken Breeches, length measured at the side seam.
1886 Peterson's Mag. June 538/2 The side-seams are left open from a little below the waist-line.
2004 Threads Aug. 28 To reduce it, pin-fit to take in the side seam.
side slit n.
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1697 P. A. Motteux et al. Novelty v. 42 You, Sir, must unbutton your Coat..: Let me put it over your Head backwards, thus, inside-outwards. Now your Arms through the Side-slits.
1851 Illustr. London News 22 Feb. 148/2 A fine tool is pressed upon the steel, and forms..the side slits which give flexibility to the pen.
2000 A. Reed Under Pressure 54 Cilla..looked fantastic today in a long yellow skirt with a side slit, and a fitting yellow plaid jacket.
side splint n.
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1771 J. Aitken Ess. Several Important Subj. Surg. 155 The side-splints fix to the heel of the boot.
1876 Clin. Soc. Trans. 9 73 I then applied a well-padded side-splint with foot-piece to the inner side of the leg.
2008 L. Mercier Pract. Orthopedics (ed. 6) xi. 219/1 Side splints of plaster or fiberglass can be added and secured in place with elastic bandage.
side stay n.
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1788 tr. J. H. Campe New Robinson Crusoe III. 98 When they strike away the side stays that keep the vessel from moving, it slides along the frame..into the water.
1827 H. Steuart Planter's Guide (1828) 260 The two Side-Stays..are made as short as possible, in order to prevent interference with the branches.
2012 Heritage Railway 16 Feb. 69/2 The boiler was lifted on January 15, 1984 and the work included..replacement of all the firebox steel side stays.
side strap n.
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1753 J. Bartlet Gentleman's Farriery App. 333 A is a pad, to which is fastened a circingle B. CC two side straps, one on each side the horse.
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. Side-straps, in a field carriage, are flat iron bands which go round the side-pieces.
2012 C. E. Tate Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture viii. 230/2 There was probably a side strap for the headdress that extended under the chin.
side tube n.
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1776 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 66 259 I put the extremity of the glass tube into a vessel with water, and open the cock of the side tube.
1842 Mechanics' Mag. 3 Sept. 263/1 The present invention consists in adding one or two side tubes to an ordinary tubular boiler, so as to extend the heading surface.
1950 I. Langmuir Phenomena, Atoms & Molecules viii. 125 With moisture present the atomic hydrogen diffused through the side tube and the atoms combined to form molecules on the surfaces of the metallic wires.
2002 Jrnl. Coastal Res. 18 369/1 Several spatially separated resonating side-tubes are fixed orthogonal to the sidewall of the sounding tube at different depths.
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(a) With the sense ‘coming from or directed towards the side; oblique; indirect’.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately.
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1566 T. Blundeville Order curing Horses Dis. f. 90v, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe The styffle commeth by meanes of some syde blowe, or some greate strayne slypping or slyding.
1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xix. 257 It is his will by obliquity, a side-will, vnproper, vndirect.
1676 R. Hooke Descr. Helioscopes 6 The two side Rayes of the pencil of light.
1790 Eng. Chron. 6 July He..apprehended that some part of this money would, by some side means, be converted to other purposes.
1820 W. Scott Abbot III. iii. 76 The Lady of Lochleven, at whom this side-shaft was launched.
1889 J. Ruskin Præterita III. iii. 96 It was almost impossible for him to speak to any one he cared for, without some side-flash of witty compliment.
1894 H. Speight Nidderdale & Garden of Nidd 381 A protective wall, preventing a destructive side-wash, has been built.
1908 R. W. Chambers Firing Line xxii. 384 She glanced uneasily at him, a slow side gaze; and met his eyes.
1949 T. Roscoe U.S. Submarine Operations World War II xx. 254/2 Protective bulkheads served to shock-absorb the blast of a side hit.
2006 Investor's Business Daily (Nexis) 3 Nov. a3 Marshall..often chose a side attack rather than a frontal assault to make his point.
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side blow n.
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1566Syde blowe [see Compounds 1d(a)].
1693 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. vii. 34 What natural Agent could..impell them so strongly with a transverse Side-blow.
2008 ‘Sunny’ Mona Lisa Craving 134 He used it as an offensive weapon, striking a side blow with the hard metal into my right side, knocking the breath from me.
side course n.
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1709 N. Tate tr. Ovid Remedy of Love in Ovid's Art of Love 276 What Pilot would against the Current strive, When with a side Course he may safely drive?
1893 F. W. L. Adams New Egypt 88 The natural trend of the side-course of the river is from the east to the west.
1998 K. Hillstrom & L. Collier Hillstrom Adventure Guide Mich. 159 The five-mile Lake Ann Pathway charts a course through a grand mix of hardwood forest garnished with healthy side courses of water.
side glimpse n.
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1829 N.-Y. Mirror, & Ladies' Lit. Gaz. 7 Feb. 241/2 Other points of view opened in succession: now a full one, of the front of the old castle, and now a side glimpse at its particular towers.
1890 ‘M. Twain’ Let. 11 Feb. in J. Brown Lett. (1912) 452 The charm of the painter is so strong that one can't keep his entire attention on the developing portrait, but must steal side-glimpses of the artist.
2010 Vancouver Province (Nexis) 10 Dec. c6 Your only chance of not being caught by one of these police MGs might be a side glimpse of the car as the wire wheels were painted blue.
side jump n.
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1785 Morning Post 5 Apr. His [sc. a monkey's] balancing himself with the pole, his side jumps, and holding in his mouth a branch of lights, produce a very agreeable and astonishing effect.
1869 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 386 As a breaker approaches, meet it by a side jump.
2009 Washington Post (Nexis) 19 Jan. (Health section) 1 Jump forward and land softly on one foot... The same idea can be used with a side jump (pushing off on the left foot and landing on the right) or with a spin.
side motion n.
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1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 740 The oblique [muscles] are are most fitte for oblique or side motions, the right for more exact flexion or extention.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. i. 90 While we work or study or converse, we often change our posture, turn our eyes and make many side motions having no connection with the purpose we are about.
2002 T. Ryan & J. Sampson Beginning Wrestling v. 35/1 While you are trying to set up with forward and backward movements, a quick side motion to the left or the right will force your opponent to react.
side shot n.
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1640 H. Hexham 3rd Part Princ. Art Mil. ix. 45 You shal take your aime removing it at the brich so long, till you haue got in your sight the place of the side shot which your bullet made.
1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel I. xix. 300 With another side-shot at the Confidential Clerk.
1879 Manch. Guardian 6 Jan. 3/6 The latter eventually nearly secured the first goal for the county by a clever side shot.
1971 Times of India 9 May 8 The TV camera took only a very blurred side shot of his face so as to prevent identification.
2011 Salt Lake Tribune (Nexis) 19 Nov. Williams argued that only a fraction of a second separates a head-on shot and a side shot when the target is a car moving 35 mph.
e. With the sense ‘in or on a person's or animal's side’, as side ache, side fin, side pain, side spot, side stripe, etc.
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OE Lacnunga (2001) I. cxvi. 84 Wyrc godne drenc wið sidece.
lOE Names of Herbs, Glosses to Med. & Bot. Texts (Dresden Dc.187) in H. D. Meritt Old Eng. Glosses (1945) 63/1 Ad lateris dolorem : wiþ sydwerc.
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 8 A drame of the iuice helpeth the syde ake.
1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 577 Side paine & belly dropsies, & palsie, drinke Sage with wine a litle warmed.
1662 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. D. Sennert Sixth Bk. Pract. Physick vii. iv. 58 It [sc. aconite] is sweet upon the tongue, then it grows brackish, and stricks into the head, and causeth heaviness, Megrim,..side-pain, [etc.].
1739 T. Boreman Descr. of Some Curious & Uncommon Creatures 51 The Aperture of the Jaws begins just under the large Side-fins.
1798 R. Beatson Ess. Compar. Advantages Vertical & Horizontal Wind-mills 64 The manner they act is very much upon the same principles as the side fins of a fish.
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxxv. 598 The epipleura or side-cover..that covers the sides of the body.
1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 178 The Side Spot Triangle.
1856 C. Kingsley Glaucus (ed. 3) 120 Small cuttle-fish..put into a jar, will hover and dart in the water..by rapid winnowings of their glassy side-fins.
1868 Amer. Phrenol. Jrnl. 47 66/1 There is no dyspepsia, no consumption, no headache, sideache, backache, or heartache here.
1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 346 The name Pleurisy.., side-sore of Early English.
1904 Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci. 1903 144 Four Myrtle Warblers were seen, and of these..two had yellow crown and rump but no side-spots.
1958 R. Conant Field Guide Reptiles & Amphibians U.S. 123 Queen snake has 4 brown stripes down belly, and yellow side stripe is on scale rows 1 and 2.
2013 B. W. Willis Trout Adventures 47 Aurora trout don't have any side spots like brookies, and have red and gold side markings.
f. With the sense ‘spoken or written as an aside’, as side-remark, side soliloquy, side speech, etc.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > words spoken by actors
dialogue1572
side speech1728
words1761
line1882
the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [noun] > undertone > an utterance in an undertone
aside1728
side-remark1825
sotto voce1868
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > words spoken by actors > types of
cue1553
anteloquy1623
aside1728
catchword1755
side soliloquy1842
gag1847
gravy1864
fluff1891
laugh line1913
rhubarb1919
curtain line1939
walla1949
1728 J. Ralph Touch-stone iv. 116 They [sc. the Chorus] interfer'd with the Business of the Stage, either by Side-Speeches, or in Dialogue with the Characters of the Drama.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. xii. iii. 393 This side speech explained to me the plot.
1825 Philadelphia Recorder 24 Sept. 99/3 ‘A Layman’ has some occasional side remarks about apostolic succession and a divine appointment to the ministry.
1835 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 611/1 Mrs Mark Luke was upon thorns at this ill-bred side-talk, and the young Chief not altogether at his ease.
1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xxxiv. 280 In a side soliloquy.
a1910 ‘M. Twain’ Scrap Curious Hist. in Harper's Mag. (1914) Oct. 673/1 He was treated to many side remarks by his fellows.
1917 G. S. Gordon Let. 14 Feb. (1943) 70 This is all side-talk compared with the great thing that has happened to you.
1994 K. Lasky Mem. Bookbat v. 43 Those old-time authors..stop smack-dab in the middle of the story and say stuff like ‘patient reader’, and then give some little side comment.
2005 Scotsman (Nexis) 3 May 62 But even these expressions of resignation, and side-quips, couldn't conceal a disappointment that he'd not been given to the season's end.
g. With the sense ‘seen from the side; (of a drawing, plan, etc.) showing the side of something; in profile’, as side aspect, side elevation, side sketch, etc.Recorded earliest in side-face n. See also side view n.
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1650 J. Lightfoot Temple xxxviii. 244 I have one reason to conjecture that they [sc. carved figures] had foure heads as well as foure faces, because it will otherwise be very harsh to imagine how his fore-face and right side-face should be set to looke before and behinde.
1771 G. Marshall tr. A. B. Desgodets Anc. Buildings Rome I. i. 8 The fourth plate represents the side-elevation of the whole temple and portico.
1838 W. H. Leeds Britton's Illustr. Public Buildings of London (ed. 2) II. 81 If the ‘extraneous pile’ on the top of the building..is offensive in a front view, it gives an air of picturesque grandeur to the side aspects.
1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) II. 509 Fig. 1193. represents this twin furnace in a side elevation.
1893 Decorator & Furnisher Mar. 216/1 The suite is completed by the small side sketch of the chimney-piece to match.
1905 Aeronaut. Jrnl. Apr. 32/1 In Fig. I., of which Fig. II. is a side diagram, A and B are two rotating fans on the same horizontal shaft.
2010 Victorian July 22/4 The simple basilican-plan building is in a crowded residential area but its side elevations have tall two-light Gothic windows.
h. With the sense ‘additional to the main point or course of something; supplementary, subsidiary; tangential, incidental’, as side conflict, side result, etc.Recorded earliest in side effect n. See also side issue n., sideline n. 9.
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1814 Monthly Repository Theol. & Gen. Lit. Nov. 679/2 It is more consonant to our feelings and common sense of things, to suppose that such case was not object of provident scheme, but side effect of instituted operant principle.
1843 Knickerbocker Dec. 560 At the moment of that writing, he may have had a side-thought for the choice wine that smoothed his inspiration.
1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 291 Throughout these first six years..a side conflict was raging in Spain.
1894 Westm. Gaz. 15 Nov. 2/1 Such mere side-results as an influx of berry-pickers from London and Liverpool into the holly-growing districts.
1909 Let. 23 Nov. in 5th Biennial Rep. Attorney Gen. Wisconsin (1910) 96 They are no more ‘side costs’ than is the cost of iron or other building materials that entered into the construction of the bridge.
1995 Vancouver Sun 6 Sept. a11/2 The issue is..not morality but dealing with persistent side-problems of street prostitution.
2006 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 14 June ii. 7/1 Headwaiters..reaping a tidy side income from those buying their way out.
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a. With adverbial force in the sense ‘to or towards the side’, ‘by or at the side’, ‘from the side’, etc., forming adjectives with present and past participles, as side-flowing, side-hanging, side-lying; side-bent, side-cast, side-seen, etc.
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xliv. 4 Buriowne thei shuln among erbes..bisyde the syde flowende watris [L. praeterfluentes aquas].
1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 5v A rare Obelisk..the heigth whereof..did exceed the toppes of the side-lying mountaynes.
1594 Willobie his Auisa f. 15 And so thou dost, I know it well, I knew it by thy side-cast glance.
1601 S. Daniel Ciuill Warres (rev. ed.) vi. xlv. f. 88v, in Wks. The cast of her side-bended eye did shoe Both sorrow and reproofe.
1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 131 Even as a Winde..Bears down the Trees in a side-hanging Wood.
1761 R. Cary et al. Invoice 31 Mar. in G. Washington Papers (1990) VII. 23 1 Dozn Cart Collars side piercd.
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad v. 179 As on a side-seen storm..The flames fork round the semivault of heaven.
1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors II. i. 1 The head deferentially sidecast.
1944 J. Millar in R. Greenhalgh Pract. Builder x. 345/1 Chase wedges..are known as side-bent or front-bent according to their shape.
1960 C. W. Cunnington et al. Dict. Eng. Costume 2 Albert boots..Period: 1840–ca. 1870. Side-lacing boots with cloth tops and patent-leather toe-caps.
1990 Outdoor Life Apr. 17/1 A side-mounted bracket allows the trap to be rotated.
2000 K. Govier Truth Teller viii. 186 The sight of Manorites in their sloppy blazers and side-yanked ties.
b. Objective with verbal nouns and participles (in sense 1), as side-piercing, side-shaking, etc.See also side-splitting adj.
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1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xx. 85 O thou side pearcing sight. View more context for this quotation
1733 Players: a Satire sig. B8 A violent side-shaking Laugh.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle IV. cii. 115 Various distortions and side-shakings.
1819 P. B. Shelley Rosalind & Helen 55 Forcing the point of a barbed dart Into its side-convulsing heart.
1882 Cent. Mag. July 348/1 Chicago Avenue is another side-squeezing, but very pretty channel.
1915 Amer. Jrnl. Vet. Med. 10 679/1 The [entertainment] program was bubbling over with brand new surprises and side-bursting situations.
1992 N. A. Chagnon Yanomamö vi. 214 If such a duel escalates, it usually turns into a side-slapping contest.
2014 India Retail News (Nexis) 19 June Side-exposing tops and dresses are all the rage this summer.
c. Parasynthetic, as side-mouthed, side-sighted, etc. See also side-spotted adj., side-striped adj. at Compounds 3.
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1701 Philos. Trans. 1700–1 (Royal Soc.) 22 928 Side spotted Cowry.
1831 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom IX. 43 Side Streaked Tropidolepis..keeled, toothed-edged, mucronate.
1860 A. C. Swinburne Queen-Mother iii. i. 81 Cunning little heads And side-mouthed puppets quaintly cut on it.
1879 Man. Siege & Garrison Artillery Exercises 201 The 80-pr. is side-sighted, and has drop trunnion sights.
1948 J. D. Rittenhouse Amer. Horse-drawn Vehicles 15 Side-seated platform wagon.
1987 J. Barth Tidewater Tales (1988) 27 You and I are going to have to buy a..quiet low-crime side-streeted play-yarded..magnoliad suburban for Christ's sake house!
2012 Steam Days May 294/3 The South Eastern & Chatham ‘G’ class engines..were unofficially known as ‘Glasshouses’ due to the handsome side-windowed cabs.
C3. In some of the following compounds the attributive use of side may be interpreted as adjectival.
side action n. Pharmacology = side effect n. 2.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by medicine or drug > [noun] > effects of medicines or drugs
side effect1868
placebo effect1902
tachyphylaxis1911
side action1933
nocebo effect1961
1933 M. B. Muse Pharmacol. & Therapeutics i. 42 Morphine sulphate..when administered as an analgesic has numerous side actions some of which are harmless.
1980 Brit. Homeopathic Jrnl. 38 105 They are a side action which may do harm to the patient by adding to his sufferings.
2011 F. P. Nijkamp & M. J. Parnham Princ. Immunopharmacol. (ed. 3) c. xiv. 581/1 All the NSAIDs to a lesser or greater extent shared the side-action of causing bleeding and ulceration.
side alley n. †(a) the side aisle of a church (obsolete); (b) a walk or pathway situated to one side of a garden, park, avenue, etc. (now rare); (c) a narrow street or lane leading away from a more important thoroughfare in a city or town; also figurative.
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1455–6 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 98 (MED) For cropys to the tabyll of the syde allee.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) xlvi. 273 This Square of the Garden, should not be the whole Breadth of the Ground, but to leaue, on either Side, Ground enough, for diuersity of Side Alleys.
1764 V. Green Surv. Worcester vi. 52 The great vault..is divided into three..iles..; and these are again subdivided, the middle one..by three rows of pillars, and each side alley by a single row.
1823 Kaleidoscope 21 Oct. 134/1 An old woman, who came sobbing out of a side-alley, entreated me to show her to an apothecary's.
1868 Once Week 8 Aug. 102/2 The fat, vulgar man..was walking along one of the side-alleys of the park at Versailles.
1892 A. Conan Doyle Adventures Sherlock Holmes xii. 298 Wondering what strange side-alley of human experience this lonely woman had strayed into.
1938 Washington Post 27 Mar. 12/2 The man scooped up about $300.., and escaped down a side alley.
2004 P. Southern Craze xxii. 159 Down a little side alley littered with condoms was the back entrance to the DeepDrill Club.
side axe n. an axe with one face bevelled and the other flat, and typically with the handle slightly angled to one side, used in hewing and squaring timber.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > axe > [noun] > other axes
bole-axc1175
flesh-axe1424
stybill?a1500
brake-axe1590
holing-axe1819
side axe1871
hammer-axe1927
1871 W. Morgans Man. Mining Tools 107 The so-called ‘squaring axe’ or ‘side axe’, of sundry patterns, is ground in a corresponding manner.
1875 J. Lukin Carpentry & Joinery 8 The side axe.., with one bevel, is free from this drawback, as it is held with the blade vertical.
1902 Agric. Jrnl. (Natal) 23 May 180/1 The trimming follows. This was done by an Indian sitting on his haunches. His tools were a side axe and a bush knife.
2012 Advocate (Burnie, Tasmania) (Nexis) 9 Oct. d4 Scottsdale furniture maker Max Hodgetts will be working on his craft with old-style tools like side-axes.
† side basset n. Mining Obsolete a direction at right angles to that of the dip; cf. basset n.3, dip n.1 5.
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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [noun] > vein > crossing
side basset1686
cross-course1802
guide1874
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 131 To what points soever the rise & dip direct their course, the row, side basset or streek, lyes quite contrary.
1860 Eng. & Foreign Mining Gloss. (new ed.) 78 Side-bassett, a transverse direction, or at right angles with the line of dip.
1912 Trans. Inst. Mining Engineers 42 155 A great deal depended upon how they [sc. coal seams] carried the face—whether on the level or the side basset.
side beam n. (a) a structural beam running along the side of a ship, or located at the side of something; (b) a beam of light or other radiation directed to one side.
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1538 T. Elyot Dict. Iugum... Also. the syde beames in a shyppe, in the whyche the traunsomes are fastened.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Iumelles, the cheekes, or side-beames of a presse.
1921 Jrnl. U.S. Artillery Aug. 140 The target, therefore, will be illuminated by the inner edges of the two side beams.
1978 R. V. Jones Most Secret War xx. 169 If another aircraft flew down one of the side beams, the result should be a second line intersecting with the first at the exact location of the station.
2009 L. Davis Rebels & Traitors iii. 25 The silent press..had two tall, heavy, upright side-beams, which carried a lighter cross-piece.
side bearing n. Engineering a bearing at the side of something; spec. one on either side of a central bearing in a railway vehicle to prevent side-to-side rocking.
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1824 London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. 8 299 The carriage is to be placed at the commencement of the rails, running upon the middle beam, and also upon side-bearings or rail-ways extending along the side walls of the building.
1906 Street Railway Jrnl. 11 Aug. 225/1 The bolster spring seats and their bearings are also of cast steel, as are also the side bearings, which are bolted to the bolster.
2004 Tool & Machinery Catal. 2005 (Axminster Power Tool Centre Ltd.) i. 32/2 Movement of both rear and side bearings is controlled by screws and the bearings themselves are mounted on eccentric bosses for precise setting of the blade clearance.
side bend n. a sidewards bend; (later) spec. an exercise in which a person stands upright and leans over from the hips to right or left, so as to stretch the muscles on the opposite side of the torso.
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1793 Nat. Hist. Birds, Fish, Insects & Reptiles IV. 259 The African tortoise..moves slowly, partly owing to the side-bend of the legs.
1889 L. P. S. Hopkins Observ. Lessons Primary Schools 183 (caption) Upward stretch. Side bend. Trunk rotate.
1919 Motorcycling & Bicycling 9 July 46/1 A side bend in the forks is another common occurrence, due to hitting something at an angle.
1962 Times Recorder (Zanesville, Ohio) 6 July a10/3 Stretch to pull the waist up from the hips... Add a side bend for willowy slimness.
2010 J. Weiner Fly away Home 309 She'd straighten up, lifting her arms over her head, do a few side bends, then touch her toes and..turn around and start running back home.
side benefit n. an additional or subsidiary benefit, esp. one that is informal or unplanned; a fringe benefit, a perk.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > [noun] > personal income or acquired wealth > casually or incidentally acquired
feec1405
obventionc1425
availc1449
perquisitive?c1450
vailc1450
vantagea1470
perquisite1567
fee-bucka1643
casual1825
perk1869
side benefit1873
1873 Scotsman 20 June 4/6 The company which was supposed to have taken the contract on lower terms than those which had been given, would not have done so unless it received certain side benefits and profits.
1883 Galveston (Texas) News 2 Jan. Whatever little interests the South may hope to share in the side benefits of the system.., the cotton planter can expect nothing from it but robbery.
1970 Times 23 Mar. 26/3 (advt.) Pay and conditions are excellent, many side benefits and generous paid leave in Europe.
2003 D. Fowles Everything Personal Finance in 20s & 30s Bk. ii. 15 An unexpected side benefit of budgeting is that it can improve your relationship with your spouse or partner.
side bet n. (a) an additional or subsidiary bet; spec. a bet made with another player rather than with the house (house n.1 4g); a bet on something other than the final outcome of a game or competition; (b) (in quot. 1894) a challenge made by one regiment to another.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > type of bet
swoopstake1599
by-beta1627
levant1714
even money1732
play or pay bet1738
side bet1769
long shot1796
sweep1849
pay-or-play1853
sweepstake1861
pari-mutuel1868
to go a raker1869
flutter1874
skinner1874
by-wager1886
plunge1888
accumulator1889
saver1891
mutuel1893
quinella1902
parlay1904
Sydney or the bush1924
treble1924
daily double1930
all-up1933
round robin1944
double1951
twin double1960
perfecta1961
pool1963
lose bet1964
tiercé1964
Yankee bet1964
Yankee1967
nap1971
superfecta1971
tricast1972
triple1972
trixie1973
telebetting1974
trifecta1974
over-and-under1975
over-under1981
spread bet1981
1769 Margaretta II. xlv. 45 The side bets were deep; she was engaged in them all; and, for a rubber or two, came off with entire success.
1857 T. Frere Hoyle's Games (new ed.) 156 Unless otherwise stipulated, all side-bets must be decided on the same principles as the winning of the pool.
1894 H. H. Gardener Unofficial Patriot 277 The side bet, as they called it, must be won.
1931 O. Walters Shrapnel Green 26 The centre was set, the side-bets on, and Mick was ready to toss.
1982 Washington Post 11 Oct. b5/2 There could be side bets on such things as the number of home runs, the point spread, bases stolen, etc.
2008 M. Frankel Hats & Eyeglasses (2009) v. 68 If he does fold, he'll try to draw someone who's folded into a side bet with him; he just likes the action.
side-bit n. a piece or part at or to the side of something; spec. a gusset reinforcing the seams at the side of a shirt.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > shirt > part of > other
slip1648
side-bit1825
shirt band1828
1788 M. Cole Lady's Compl. Guide xxii. 392 Then take off the skin and side-bits, cut the tongue into very thin slices, and beat it in a marble mortar.
1825 R. Byfield Sectum 92 The neck gusset 4 inches square—and the side bits 1½ square.
1840 R. H. Barham in Bentley's Misc. Apr. 416 One of those queer little three-corner'd straps, Which the ladies call ‘Side-bits’, that sever the ‘Flaps’.
2015 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) (Nexis) 13 Jan. 4 We decided to..build the house up in the middle with the two side bits being turned into courtyards.
side-blotched lizard n. any of various small lizards constituting the genus Uta (family Phrynosomatidae), of desert areas in western North America; esp. the common U. stansburiana.Side-blotched lizards are noted for occurring in a variety of morphs (formerly assumed to be distinct species) which differ not only in coloration but also in reproductive behaviour.
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1940 Field & Stream Sept. 90/3 One of the most commonplace species dealt with was the side-blotched lizard, a member of that large lizard family, the swifts.
1979 Amer. Midland Naturalist 101 236 Recapture data from the side-blotched lizard [Uta stansburiana (Iguanidae)] from western Colorado were analyzed.
2013 D. J. Fairbairn Odd Couples xi. 180 Male side-blotched lizards energetically display their brightly colored throat patches to establish dominance in their reproductive hierarchy.
side-blown adj. (a) Music designating a flute or other wind instrument with the mouth aperture along the side, near the upper end; cf. end-blown adj. (b) at end n. Additions; (b) (of an egg) hollowed out by blowing through one of a pair of holes made in opposite sides (now rare).
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1875 Archaeol. Jrnl. 32 433 In a search made some years ago at the request of an archaeological friend, I was unable to find any earlier example of the side-blown pipe than the one in the ‘Triumph of the Emperor Maximilian’.
1889 Science Nov. 342/2 I have forty varieties of birds' eggs, side blown, first class in sets, with full data.
1905 Country-side 1 July 130/2 Collections of Side-blown Birds' Eggs.
1984 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 22 July ii. 17/1 Many of those same composers were also writing for the side-blown German flute, which boasted an even greater range and a more refined tone.
2006 Guardian 13 Apr. i. 25/4 A siwa, or side-blown horn, carved from ivory in the 17th century by the coastal Swahili people.
side boob n. colloquial (as a mass noun) the outer side(s) of a woman's breast(s), esp. as exposed by a revealing item of clothing.
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1994 Sunday Times 30 Jan. (Style & Travel section) 17/1 Mike Myers..thinks..Heather Locklear is a babe. So is..Farrah Fawcett—she was the first woman he saw on a poster where he could see what he refers to as ‘side boob’.
2002 C. Bartolomeo Side of Angels (2004) xii. 152 I don't stay awake until three a.m. watching USA Up All Night on the off chance they'll flash some side boob.
2013 New Statesman 26 July 21/2 As the profit margins of the news industry disintegrate, press outlets..are turning to sexist filler content and sideboob close-ups to sell their wares.
side boy n. Nautical each member of a group of sailors posted in two rows on either side of a gangway to attend or (formerly) assist a foreign dignitary, high-ranking officer, etc., boarding or disembarking from a ship.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > [noun] > others
press-gang1693
young gentleman1784
sidesman1803
side boy1823
trouncer1867
rating1877
Navy Leaguer1898
requestman1916
tiger1929
mineman1943
shore patrolman1944
striker1944
ping1948
pinger1961
bubblehead1965
1823 J. F. Cooper Pilot I. iii. 31 The shrill whistle of the boatswains mate, as he recalled the side-boys.
1916 ‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin i. 2 Eyed critically by the grinning side-boy and the messenger.
2010 Alamogordo (New Mexico) Daily News (Nexis) 6 June The ceremony ended with Newson symbolically leaving the ship for the last time with side boys saluting and bidding farewell.
† side burden n. Obsolete rare a passenger bench on either side of a rowing boat; cf. burden n. 12.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > other parts of body of vessel > [noun] > seat in a boat > at sides
side burden1857
1857 P. M. Colquhoun Compan. Oarsman's Guide 31 Side burthens are extra thwarts laid in provisionally to carry sitters.
side chair n. an upright chair without arms.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > other chairs
farthingale chair1552
side chair1582
high chair1609
scroll chair1614
Turkey chair1683
curule chair1695
reading chair1745
rush-bottom1754
conversation-chair1793
Windsor tub1800
Trafalgar chair1808
beehive-chair1816
nursing chair1826
Hitchcockc1828
toilet seat1829
kangaroo1834
prie-dieu1838
tub-chair1839
barrel-chair1850
Cromwell chair1868
office chair1874
swivel-chair1885
steamer-chair1886
suggan chair1888
lawn chair1895
saddle seat1895
Bombay chair1896
veranda-chair1902
X chair1904
Yorkshire chair1906
three legs and a swinger1916
saddlebag1919
riempie stool1933
gaspipe chair1934
slipper chair1938
Eames chair1946
contour chair1948
sling-back1948
sling chair1957
booster chair1960
booster seat1967
beanbag1969
sack chair1970
papasan1980
Muskoka chair1987
1582 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 55 A side chair with a fyr table and trisstles.
1823 Bury & Norwich Post 1 Oct. (advt.) The Furniture includes 2 sets of mahogany dining tables,..piano forte with additional keys; 5 side chairs, [etc.].
1905 Delineator May 829/1 The Windsor rockers are not so common as the side chairs.
2006 M. P. Hueston Farmhouses iii. 95 In the dining area, a set of six wooden side chairs with wonderfully chipping paint surrounds a long barn-wood table.
side circuit n. Telecommunications and Electrical Engineering a subsidiary or additional circuit; spec. either of the circuits that go to form one side of a phantom circuit.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > [noun] > phantom circuit
side circuit1842
phantom circuit1883
phantom1920
1842 Polytechnic Jrnl. 7 263 He..gives instances of side-circuits in nature.
1872 Memorial Samuel F.B. Morse 34 It was the relay which, with its modifications for registering local and side-circuits, was the crowning feature of the recording telegraph.
1957 W. Fraser Telecommunications v. 122 It is possible to transmit speech on the phantom circuit without interference to either side-circuit.
2013 K. Sozanski Digital Signal Processing ii. 27 The transformer can also be used to transfer energy to supply the primary side circuits.
side counter-timber n. Shipbuilding either of the two outermost timbers at the sides of the stern; cf. counter-timber n. at counter n.4 Compounds.
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1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine The side-counter-timbers, which terminate the ship abaft within the quarter gallery.
1836 United Service Jrnl. Feb. 195 The lower ends of the stern timbers are placed on a score formed upon the transom; and secured as they are by those of the upper deck to the side counter timbers..the whole fabric may not improperly be said to be suspended.
1917 Marine Rev. Dec. 455/3 The triangular space..is filled in with short cants which heel against the side counter timbers.
1987 P. Goodwin Constr. & Fitting Eng. Man of War i. 34/1 The deck hooks were extended through the hull beyond the side counter timbers, to support the galleries.
† side-cousin n. Obsolete rare (perhaps) a remote or illegitimate cousin.
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1875 Ld. Tennyson Queen Mary ii. iii. 90 And little Jenny—though she's but a side-cousin.
side cupboard n. (a) a side table or other item of dining-room furniture (originally) used to hold food and drink ready to be served at table or (later usually) for storing and displaying tableware (cf. sideboard n. 1b); (b) gen. any cupboard positioned to one side of a room, fixture, etc., or set into a wall, the side of an object, etc.
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?1560 H. Rhodes Bk. Nurture (new ed.) sig. Aiiv The karuer shall breake his dish before his maister or at a side Cupbord with clene kniues.
1677 F. Sandford Geneal. Hist. Kings Eng. vi. vii. 501 Rizie.., at a side Cupbord, tasting some Meat that had been taken from the Queens Table, [was] dragged forth into an outer Chamber, and there murthered.
1717 W. Sutherland Britain's Glory: Ship-building Unvail'd 93 Cabbins..to have Settle Lockers, and side Cupboards, all fitted with Locks and Hinges suitable.
1818 Northern Star Oct. 243 The principle furniture..comprized a cobbler's stool, a few culinary items in a side-cupboard, [etc.].
1908 E. C. Booth Cliff End xvii. 95 On the grained side-cupboard to the left hand of the fireplace were glasses..of all sorts and shapes.
2013 E. Gifford Sea House xxxvi. 256 Every piece of furniture had been painted over with white gloss: the wooden headboards..; the rickety side cupboards.
side-curl n. a curled lock of hair at the side of the face; spec. (in plural) = payess n.
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the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > lock or locks > [noun]
lockeOE
forelockc1000
hair-lockc1000
earlockOE
foretopc1290
tressc1290
lachterc1375
fuke1483
sidelock1530
proudfallc1540
widow's locka1543
folding1552
fore-bush1591
flake1592
witch knot1598
tuft1603
French lock1614
head-lock1642
witch-lock1682
rat's tail1706
side-curl1749
scalp knot1805
rat-tail1823
straggler1825
scalping-tuft1826
scalp-lock1827
aggravator1835
soap-lock1840
payess1845
stringleta1852
list1859
tresslet1882
drake's tail1938
1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 186 His hair, which was of a perfect shining black, play'd to his face in natural side-curls.
1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xii. 193 The well-powdered ears, which appeared beneath his neat military side-curls . View more context for this quotation
1874 Temple Bar Sept. 233 The Jew..being easily recognisable by the long beard and glistening side curls.
1917 Puck (N.Y.) 10 Feb. 18 Sadie pats a side-curl into place and looks haughtily in the direction of Funiculi.
2000 B. Segal Whisper Awhile 21 The pale youths with their long side-curls under the broad-brimmed black hats.
side cutter n. (a) a cutting blade or other device positioned at the side of a tool, machine, etc.; (b) (in plural) a pair of strong blades incorporated into a pair of pliers, typically used for cutting wire; (also) a pair of handheld clippers having such blades, used only for cutting wire, sheet metal, etc. (cf. wire-cutter n. (a) at wire n.1 Compounds 2a, snip n. 8, and tinsnips n.). [The semantic motivation for sense (b) is unclear; it may have arisen because in pliers such blades are typically located off-centre.]
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1806 O. G. Gregory Treat. Mech. I. 262 The piece..was..enlarged to the proper caliber by means of steel cutters fixed into..a boring bar-iron. Three equidistant side-cutters..and a single cutter at the end of the bar.
1897 Proc. National School Dental Technics 1893–6 55 Only a drawplate, a screwplate, and a large pliers with side cutters for wire are required.
1925 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 12 Apr. 7/2 Two or more pairs of pliers should be included in the kit—the regular type and a heavy pair of side-cutters.
1981 Hutchinson (Kansas) News 4 Nov. 32/3 (advt) Garbage disposer... Stainless steel grind ring. Convex impeller. Side cutter. $34.95.
2005 R. Kinmont Every Kid needs Things that Fly 37/2 Use a pair of side cutters to remove the tip of each arm [of the umbrella].
side cutting n. and adj. (a) n. Civil Engineering excavation at the side of a route when there is insufficient material for banking or infilling from the route itself; material so excavated (cf. side forming n.); (b) adj. (with hyphen) that cuts in a sideways direction.
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1823 H. R. Palmer Descr. Railway New Princ. 60 The line then passes under the public road, and is ultimately seen skirting a hill side, without requiring the usual necessary side-cutting.
1906 Proc. Amer. Railway Engin. Assoc. 7 358 It is the part most distant from the hill which should be formed from a side cutting.
1922 Treat. Milling & Milling Machines (Cincinnati Milling Machine Company) ix. 192 Fig. 178 shows a cutter of much the same peculiarities except that it has no side cutting teeth.
2007 P. R. Puckett Rock Cross Vane i. 17 Bank erosion was primarily attributed to side cutting as a result of alignment.
2015 J. C. Demke & S. A. Tatum in P. W. Flint et al. Cummings Otolaryngology (ed. 6) III. clxxxvi. 2906 A side-cutting power craniotome is typically used once strategic bur holes have been drilled.
† side-dosser n. Obsolete a curtain or hanging at the side of a room or bed; cf. dosser n.1 1.
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a1425 MS Royal 17 C.xvii in A. Way Promptorium Parvulorum (1843) I. 127 (note) Colaterale, syd-dosour.
?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 777/2 Hoc calatrale, a sydedocer.
side drawing n. (a) a drawing or diagram of or at the side of something; (b) Manufacturing Technology the process of drawing a yarn or fibre off at the side of a spinning or carding machine (now rare).
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1842 J. Taylor Conc. Hist. Steam Navigation 12 I wish you to send me a side drawing of the engine, furnace, and wheels.
1869 Bull. National Assoc. Wool Manufacturers 1 196 The frame on which the drawing spools are placed has four drums geared together at the end, on which the side-drawing spools are placed.
1905 W. D. Halliburton Kirkes' Handbk. Physiol (ed. 12) xxiv. 385 B.B. is then once more attached to the rest of the apparatus,..as in the side drawing in fig. 338.
1917 J. Fales Dressmaking ii. 52 Creel feed. The web is made into a sliver by the side drawing, as in the other machine, and then wound into a ball on a spool.
2008 C. Cabrera Essent. Introd. Maya Char. Rigging with DVD i. 18 Once the front or side drawing is complete, redefine the horizontal guidelines to indicate the positions of the top of the head, the eyes, [etc.].
† side-drawn adj. Obsolete rare sketched from the side.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [adjective] > drawn > in specific manner
well-drawn1558
superficial1603
monogrammala1620
designed1624
side-drawna1657
monogrammical1686
monogrammic1721
monographic1731
outlined1798
free-hand1841
hand-drawn1850
matchstick1951
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia in Poems (1878) III. To Rdr. 133 To run vneuen as a Roman Face Side-drawne.
side drift n. Mining a horizontal passage or tunnel leading off a main passage.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > passage > horizontal > types of
level1721
roadway1832
side drift1837
narrow1850
entry1854
rise heading1872
cross-head1877
sump drift1880
gopher-drift1881
stone-heading1892
1837 Jrnl. Senate Pennsylvania 2 388 The side drifts used in the excavation, would leave a free passage for the water from one tunnel to the other.
1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xl. 279 He disappeared in the gloom of a ‘side drift’ just as a head appeared in the mouth of the shaft.
2014 P. J. Howard Yankee Yooper on Keweenaw iii. 41 All the deep shaft and side drifts beyond 500 feet flooded with water.
side drum n. a small double-headed cylindrical drum with snares fitted across the lower head (originally used in military bands and worn at the drummer's side); = snare-drum at snare n. Compounds b.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > drum > [noun] > side-drum
side drum1731
1731 Daily Post 18 Jan. (advt.) With a Solo on the Violin..And a Point of War on a Side-Drum by Mr Ravenscroft.
1849 F. Sheldon Hist. Berwick-upon-Tweed xiv. 265 The smart rattling of musquetry, the rolling of side drums, and the waving of flags.
1923 N.Y. Amsterdam News 18 Apr. 8/4 The orchestra consisted of piano, violin, small side drum, jazz flute, banjo and bells.
2005 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 8 Aug. 13 A focused and brilliant solo on the side drum in which drum rolls in each hand moved hypnotically in and out of phrase.
side entrance n. a door or other entranceway at the side of a building, room, or vehicle.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of door > [noun] > other types of door
hall-doorc1275
falling doorc1300
stable doorc1330
vice-door1354
hecka1400
lodge-doorc1400
street door1465
gate-doora1500
portal1516
backdoor1530
portal door1532
side door1535
by-door1542
outer door1548
postern door1551
house door1565
fore-door1581
way-door1597
leaf door1600
folding door1611
clap-door1625
balcony-door1635
out-door1646
anteportc1660
screen door1668
frontish-door1703
posticum1704
side entrance1724
sash-door1726
Venetian door1731
oak1780
jib-door1800
trellis?c1800
sporting door1824
ledge-door1825
through door1827
bivalves1832
swing-door1833
tradesmen's entrance1838
ledged door1851
tradesmen's door?1851
fire door1876
storm door1878
shoji1880
fire door1889
Dutch door1890
patio door1900
stable door1900
ledge(d) and brace(d) door1901
suicide door1925
louvre door1953
1724 Pasquin 7 Jan. The Side Entrances, which are supported by a Column on each Hand.
1816 Morning Chron. 15 July 2/5 The grand Hall was numerously lined with Yeomen of the Guard, both from the principal entrance and the side entrance.
1890 N.Y. Times 18 Feb. 5 The trouble came from the passengers trying to get into car No. 57 by the side entrance.
1905 N.Y. Times 13 Jan. 10/3 Her new car will develop thirty horse power, and is of the phaeton type, with side entrance.
2003 H. Bernstein in D. Adebayo et al. New Writing 12 69 Sampson had to go round to the side entrance and meet me in the corridor inside.
side entry n. (a) a door or other entranceway at the side of a building (in quot. 1680 figurative); (also) a porch, lobby, etc., next to such an entranceway; (b) Bridge a card providing access to a hand in a suit other than trumps (cf. entry n. 3c).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room by situation > [noun] > entrance-hall or vestibule
fore-entry1535
hall1663
entrance hall1677
side entry1680
tambour1728
vestibule1730
entryway1746
entry hall1753
oeil-de-boeuf1785
voorhuis1822
voorkamer1827
atrium1864
hallway1877
wind-porch1899
mud room1950
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [noun] > types of card
card of re-entry1870
master card1872
singleton1876
entry1884
control1892
stopper1900
raiser1912
long card1913
loser1917
X1920
minor1927
top1929
side entry1937
penalty card1958
master1962
1680 J. F. Houpreght Aurifontina Chymica To Rdr. sig. A9 Not going in by the right door of obtaining Grace and true Knowledge from above, but climbing and breaking in by the furtive side-entry of Processes.
1844 Galignani's New Paris Guide (new ed.) vii. 166 Inscribing their names in a book at the porter's lodge, which is situated at the side entry, a little to the right of the grand entrance.
1885 S. O. Jewett Marsh Island 195 The old farmer and his crony moved their chairs into the square side-entry.
1901 W. Churchill Crisis 13 He did not discuss his ambitions at dinner with the other clerks in the side entry.
1937 Washington Post 27 Apr. 16/4 (heading) Contract Bridge..Drawing the Sting of a Side Entry.
1994 Times of India 24 Apr. (Leisure section) 4/1 The contract is 3NT and dummy has no side entry. Declarer wins the first trick in hand and runs the Club Jack to you.
2014 Fraser Coast (Queensland) Chron. (Nexis) 20 Oct. 14 An unknown person gained entry to the home through the side entry and stole the rings.
side-eye n. now chiefly U.S. a look or glance from the corner of the eye, a sidelong look, (in later use) esp. as an expression of disapproval or contempt; (as a mass noun) looks or glances of this nature.
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1825 New Monthly Mag. 13 279 If I am walking onwards, intent on my book, and do not lift up my eyes, they seldom venture to say any thing. On the contrary, I have seen them, with a side eye, assume a quiet and respectful air.
1909 R. A. Watson Happy Hawkins ii. 14 ‘Why, certainly, make yourself at home,’ sez the fair-hair. The balance o' the bunch only give me the side eye.
1918 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. [Proteus] in Little Rev. May 42 A side-eye at my Hamlet hat.
1957 J. Kerouac On the Road iii. ii. 189 Looking at me with the same wary insolent side-eye.
1979 Bamboo Ridge No. 5 35 I gave Val a side-eye and whispered to her, ‘What she said?’
2008 CTV Television, Inc. (transcript) (Nexis) 17 Dec. O'Regan: Now, I'm a child of the Seventies. Colin McAllister: Clearly. I can see that by the hairdo, love. [laughter, overtalk] He just gave me side eye!
2014 Washington Post (Nexis) 25 Sept. t19 There are basic rules of gym etiquette to keep people from throwing you the side-eye.
side-fellow n. now archaic and rare a companion, an associate, a partner (literal and figurative).
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1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iii. 78 Then shall H. passe forward toward D. vntill he finde C. to be his side fellow.
1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 34 A collateral companion or side-fellow, or yoke-fellow.
a1879 R. B. Shaw Sketch of Turki Lang.: Pt. II Vocab. (1880) 197 Yân-dâsh, a companion, lit. ‘a side-fellow’.
1949 R. Eberhart Brotherhood of Men 2 Diseased men doled on the death march of Bataan. Fatigue was early, fierce was the fury, Blazed by bayonets side-fellows fell.
side file n. now rare and historical a file for trimming and adjusting the sides of the teeth of a saw.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > file > [noun] > other files
jack file1678
knife-file1683
pillar file1683
using-file1683
carlet1688
grail1688
screw-rasp1688
riffler1797
quannet1809
safe edge1815
cross-cut1831
saw-file1846
shouldering file1846
warding file1846
found1874
side file1874
cant-filea1877
pin bone1936
1874 Sci. Amer. 4 Apr. 217/3 The file holder is then screwed forward and the side files adjusted to the saw.
2001 C. H. Wendel Encycl. Antique Tools & Machinery 209/1 The side file was designed to make all the teeth even on the blade, thus producing a much better grade of lumber.
side fillister n. now rare and historical a form of rebate plane for cutting to an adjustable width and depth, used for making certain of the grooves in a sash window frame (see quot. 1914).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > plane > [noun] > other planes
rabat1440
long plane1665
strike-block1678
mitre plane1688
straight block1812
ice plane1823
side fillister1841
upright1842
scraping-plane1846
sun plane1846
beading plane1858
bead-plane1858
fluting-plane1864
panel plane1873
badger plane1874
shooting-plane1875
whisk1875
block planea1884
scraper-plane1895
chariot plane1909
shoulder plane1935
1841 Trans. Soc. Arts 53 94 In the side fillister, which I wish to submit to your notice, I have placed the iron the reversed skew.
1914 B. F. Fletcher & H. P. Fletcher Carpentry & Joinery (ed. 4) iii. 20 The sash-fillister is a rebate-plane for sinking the edge of the stuff that is away from the craftsman, and the..side fillister for sinking the near edge.
2001 C. H. Wendel Encycl. Antique Tools & Machinery 148/1 Side fillister... For making a rabbet. Used mainly in window sash work.
side-fish n. Nautical a piece of timber joined to the side of a mast or spar to give it the required thickness; usually in plural; cf. fish n.2 1.
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1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 15 Side-fishes are commonly sawed out of one tree, down the middle, and one-fourth the diameter of the mast set off on each side for the thickness.
1862 Chambers's Encycl. IV. 349/1 Side-fishes are long pieces of timber dove-tailed on the opposite sides of a made mast.
2014 W. L. Crothers Masting of Amer. Merchant Sail 1850s vi. 69/1 To attain the athwartship diameter of the bowsprit, two side-fishes the length of the bowsprit are fashioned.
† side forming n. Civil Engineering Obsolete a roadway or embankment made on a hillside by cutting away on one side and using the material to build up on the other side; excavation in this manner; cf. side cutting n. and adj. (a).
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1833 H. Parnell Treat. Roads iii. 84 In forming embankments along the sides of hills, or what is called side-forming, the rule that should be followed is that the slope to be covered should be cut into level slips to receive the earth.
1837 D. H. Mahan Elem. Course Civil Engin. 123 A common method also, but a very bad one, is to make what is termed a side forming.
1855 H. Law Rudim. Art Constructing & Repairing Common Roads (ed. 2) 145 When the roadway is in side-forming, cross drains of the ordinary form of culverts are made.
side frequency n. Telecommunications a particular frequency in a sideband (sideband n. 2); a harmonic.In the case of amplitude modulation, a side frequency is equal to the carrier frequency plus or minus a particular modulating frequency.
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society > communication > telecommunication > [noun] > signal > frequency or band of frequencies
high frequency1842
low frequency1900
voice frequency1905
audio frequency1913
pulsatance1919
medium frequency1920
side frequency1920
intermediate frequency1924
bass1930
frequency1943
frequency spectrum1955
1920 L. M. Hull in Sci. Papers U.S. Bureau of Standards 16 267 Radio side frequencies or radio harmonics are effective to a smaller degree.
1978 P. H. Smale Telecommunication Syst. ii. 18 The sum of carrier and modulating signal frequencies is called the upper sidefrequency.
2014 Optik 125 4853/1 The side-frequency power increases faster than the input power, which would induce the crosstalk.
side front n. now somewhat rare †(a) a type of boundary fence (obsolete); (b) an aspect of something seen from the side; (chiefly) spec. the side elevation of a building (in quot. 1635 as part of an extended metaphor).
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a1541 in J. A. Twemlow Liverpool Town Bks. (1918) I. 4 All hedboltes and sydfrountes be leafullye made all the tyme of the yeare, upon [payne] of every defaulte iiiid.
1624 in G. Chandler Liverpool under James I (1960) 281 Item we agree that all Headboultes and sydefrontes shall be made..between this and the second of February.
1635 G. Wither Coll. Emblemes i. Writ of Prevention Upon the Right-Side-Front of this Building (or before the Second Booke) One Inscription to the most hopefull Prince... On the other Side-Front..One Inscription to the gratious Princesse.
1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals iv. ii I wish the lady would favour us with something more than a side-front.
1882 F. H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer Scotl. II. 495/2 The County Hall..presents a main front to County Square, an ornamental side front to Lawnmarket, and..a very plain rear front to George IV. Bridge.
1951 N. Pevsner Middlesex 27 A brick front behind two magnificent monkey-puzzle trees, the side front of the house half-timbered.
side gallery n. (in the United Kingdom) either of the two galleries along the sides of the debating chamber of the House of Commons, having additional seating for members and sections for peers, visitors, etc.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > English or British parliament > [noun] > place of > occupied by lower house > parts of
table?1572
treasury-bench1775
side gallery1778
ladies' gallery1815
ventilator1822
pairing desk1899
1778 St. James's Chron. 15 Dec. Their Lordships were admitted into the Side Galleries of the Commons.
1827 Truthteller 5 May 175 The House was crowded to excess, and such of the Members as could not find accommodation below, occupied great part of the side galleries.
1930 B. Fell Palace of Westm. 41 The seating on the floor of the House accommodates 368 members and there is room in the side galleries for another 82.
2013 Daily Mail (Nexis) 16 Jan. The Speaker's wife had dragged herself away from her life of blameless domesticity to take her accustomed, regal place in one of the side galleries.
side grafting n. Horticulture grafting in which the tapered base of the scion is inserted into an incision in the side of the main stock.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > grafting > other methods of grafting
emplastering?c1425
emplastration?1440
infoliation1577
semination1589
emplaster1601
packing1615
shoulder-grafting1669
side grafting1704
crown grafting1706
root grafting1707
rind grafting1722
tipping1763
saddle grafting1792
wedge-grafting1838
1681 T. Langford Plain Instr. Fruit-trees vi. 42 Knowing no other name for it I have given it the name of Side-graffing.]
1704 Dict. Rusticum at Grafting Side-Grafting; the scion being prepared as in Whip-Grafting, but..without cutting off the head of the Stock.
1845 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 292 Side-grafting is nothing more than splice-grafting performed on the side of a stock, the head of which is not cut off.
2005 K. Yokota tr. M. Kawasumi Secret Techniques Bonsai v. 51 Side grafting is the most popular grafting method and is used for flowering trees like the camellia and Japanese apricot, for trees of the pine family, and so forth.
side guard n. a guard at or to the side of something; (later) spec. a protective panel or framework fixed to the side of a truck or other large vehicle to prevent cyclists, pedestrians, etc., falling between the front and rear wheels.
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1816 tr. J. R. Wyss Family Robinson Crusoe II. xxx. 253 I..put on our two faithful guardians [sc. two dogs] their spiked collars and side-guards.
1905 Minnesota Rep. 93 246 An assistant was injured by a circular saw, occasioned by the removal of a side guard by another workman.
1913 Financial Times 30 May 5/6 Twenty were already equipped with side-guards, and..an additional 200 omnibuses were being fitted with them.
1948 Pop. Mech. July 71/1 (advt.) Goggles. Large, shatterproof clear lenses, plastic frame with side guards.
1982 Times 8 Oct. 3/ Side guards to stop cyclists and pedestrians will be made compulsory on new heavy lorries.
2010 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 16 Apr. a11 Newfoundland and Labrador is installing side guards on its new fleet of snow-removal equipment.
side-handed adj. (of a blow) made with the side of the hand; (of a remark, criticism, etc.) indirect (cf. back-handed adj. 3b).
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > indirect action or process > [adjective]
collateralc1374
ambagious?1532
indirect1584
circular1617
squint1619
squinting1648
sidelong1654
circumferentiala1661
circuitous1664
side wind1672
side-winded1696
roundabout1701
side-handed1828
1828 T. C. Henry Etchings from Relig. World 135 Had the veriest opposer followed the workings of that mind..he would have seen no stratagem that levelled a side-handed blow at himself.
1845 W. M. Thackeray Legend of Rhine xiii, in G. Cruikshank's Table-bk. 269 She made some side-handed enquiries regarding Otto.
1885 Steamship June 155/2 His other idea..is but another cheap and gross and side-handed attack upon shipowners.
1948 Clovis (New Mexico) News-Jrnl. 29 Apr. 2/7 Clements pinned Knutsen with a body block after dropping the good chiropractor with a vicious side-handed blow to the throat.
2005 I. F. Verstegen in K. A. E. Enenkel & W. Neuber Cognition & Bk. 187 Perspective knowledge before that point was communicated in a side-handed way in treatises on other subjects.
† side-hankle v. Obsolete to hobble (a horse) on one side; cf. hankle v.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [verb (transitive)] > hobble
warlocka1400
langlec1440
hopple1586
impester1601
trammel1607
wisp1607
spancel1610
side-hankle1627
sidelanga1642
sidelangle1660
side-span1660
hamshackle1802
hobble1804
twitchel1826
sideline1837
span1847
heel1887
1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 404 A third sort [are]..like an vnruly Coult... These would be well, fettered and side-hanckled for leaping.
side harrow n. historical a type of harrow used along the sides and between the rows of a row crop.
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1829 Manch. Guardian 2 Oct. 3/4 Among the implements was a curious plough, including a cultivator and a pair of side harrows.
1909 Southern Planter Jan. 83/2 (advt.) I prefer to run a side harrow..in the last cultivation of crops.
2007 A. E. Kaye Joining Places iii. 100 Plow gangs used..side harrows to loosen the dirt between the rows.
† side-haying n. Obsolete the action of enclosing or bounding land by means of hedges planted along the sides.
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the world > food and drink > farming > hedging > [noun]
hedgingc1380
pleachinga1398
plashing1495
tining1522
side-haying1610
switching1812
splashing1869
1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. ii. 49 Compound Contiguall Boundage is more significant, as side-haying, head-shawing.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 139/1 Compound Boundage, signifies a Side-haying, as Bounded, Limitted, Compassed, Included, Terminated.
side head n. = side heading n.
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society > communication > printing > printed matter > arrangement or appearance of printed matter > [noun] > heading > types of heading
epigraph1633
under-title1687
subhead1744
side head1822
catchword1833
side heading1836
subject line1836
subheading1842
catchline1845
subject heading1853
cut-line1883
box head1899
caption1923
overline1923
underline1924
strap1960
strap-line1960
society > communication > journalism > journal > parts and layout of journals > [noun] > headline > types of
subhead1744
side head1822
side heading1836
subheading1842
spread head1872
scare-head1887
cross-head1888
scare-line1892
scare-heading1894
cross-heading1898
one-liner1904
streamer1909
banner1913
screamer1926
drophead1930
1822 Examiner 12 May 302/2 ‘A Sweet Quack.’—With this side-head, we inserted in our last an Advertisement from the Courier.
1875 Central Law Jrnl. 2 224 The only improvement we can suggest, is the adoption of black-letter side-heads in the syllabus.
1971 D. Ayerst Guardian xxiv. 347 The Guardian gave Churchill only those two or three lines towards the end of the story below a modest side-head: ‘The Home Secretary’.
1997 Writing & publishing your A+ Scientific/Technical Paper 74 Most journals use italic type for side heads, rather than bold-faced type.
side heading n. a heading run on at the beginning of a paragraph rather than on a separate line; (also) a marginal subheading; (more generally) a subheading or subtitle.
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society > communication > printing > printed matter > arrangement or appearance of printed matter > [noun] > heading > types of heading
epigraph1633
under-title1687
subhead1744
side head1822
catchword1833
side heading1836
subject line1836
subheading1842
catchline1845
subject heading1853
cut-line1883
box head1899
caption1923
overline1923
underline1924
strap1960
strap-line1960
society > communication > journalism > journal > parts and layout of journals > [noun] > headline > types of
subhead1744
side head1822
side heading1836
subheading1842
spread head1872
scare-head1887
cross-head1888
scare-line1892
scare-heading1894
cross-heading1898
one-liner1904
streamer1909
banner1913
screamer1926
drophead1930
1836 Mag. Nat. Hist. 9 p. iv Under Miscellaneous Intelligence, we have added the sub-titles, or side-headings, as they are technically called, of all the separate articles.
1891 Musical Times 1 Dec. 720/1 The paragraph has a side heading, ‘Total Eclipse’, which, however, refers to the recent ‘lunar obscuration’.
1968 Heidelberg News Sept. 4/1 Send him a picture and supply a caption as a side heading.
2008 16th Cent. Jrnl. 37 837 Each chapter is divided into sections with subject headings..; many sections are further subdivided, indicated by boldface side headings.
side hinge n. a hinge of two similar leaves that overlie each other when the door is shut; a butt hinge.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > hinge > other types of hinge
window band1419
garnet1459
cross-garnet1659
side hinge1678
H hinge1726
strap hinge1737
butt1765
setback hinges1833
parliament hinge1841
pin hinge1910
1678 in G. F. Dow Probate Rec. Essex County, Mass. (1920) III. 205 Inventory of the estate of Edward Wharton, deceased... 22 pr. sid hinges, 3d. p., 5s. 6d.; 6 pr. Esses at 8d. p., 4s.
1878 Specif. Patents (U.S. Patent Office) 15 Jan. 575/2 I may add a side hinge, so that the seat can be tipped up edgewise.
1995 Wildlife Soc. Bull. 23 88/2 The springs from a rat trap were installed on the ends of the bow frame which were seated in the side hinges.
side hold n. (a) Wrestling and Martial Arts any of various moves in which an opponent is grasped from the side; esp. (in traditional wrestling styles) a hold in which two wrestlers standing side by side attempt to throw one another down, typically using a grip round the waist (often attributive, esp. as side-hold wrestling); (b) Mountaineering and Rock Climbing a handhold that is gripped from the side; cf. side pull n. 2.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > mountaineering or climbing > [noun] > hold
footholea1589
fingerhold1720
handhold1726
side hold1829
toe-hole1876
push hold1904
side pull1920
under-hold1920
pressure hold1941
hand jam1948
thank God hold1955
undergrip1955
jug1957
chickenhead1961
crimp1994
1829 Casket Oct. 470/1 We grappled..at the side-hold and back-hold..such a game of wrestling I never had before.
1893 C. Wilson Mountaineering vii. 121 Various anomalous kinds of handhold are met with upon more difficult rocks; for instance, finger-tip holds, side-holds, and holds facing downwards.
1915 N.Y. Times 6 June 11/5 The champion of Russia took thirteen minutes and twelve seconds to throw Wilhelm Ernst of Prussia with a head in chancery and side hold.
1938 Delaware 367 Her..love of showing her great strength in ‘side-hold’ wrestling bouts with all comers.
1977 D. Law Starting Mountaineering & Rock Climbing vi. 68 Most of the holds for jamming are side holds, but some can be used for a vertical pull-up.
1997 Black Belt Sept. 9/2 (advt.) Ju Jitsu Arm Locks..40 plus armlocks in complete detail from side hold, forward & reverse scarf position top,..etc.
2013 M. Graf Grand Teton National Park 42 The second time..he used a hand-jam, and grabbed a side-hold, before mantling over the boulder.
side hook n. Woodworking a wooden board with a block of wood along the far edge on top, and a similar block along the near edge underneath, used to hold work steady on a workbench; = bench hook n. (b) at bench n. Compounds 2.The lower block is pressed against the bench by the operator, while the work is held against the upper block; this upper one is typically shorter than the width of the board, so that wood may be sawn right through without being obstructed by the block.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > clamp > other clamps
dog1373
stirrupc1450
side hook1813
pinch-cock1862
steady1885
hold-down1888
V-block1901
1813 ‘T. Martin’ Circle Mech. Arts 203/1 Side Hook.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 585 A flat piece of wood, which has two projecting knobs, on opposite sides, one at each end, called a side-hook, is used, to keep the piece which has to undergo the operation of the saw steady.
2012 Best Workbenches i. 5 The commonly used French bench was basically a heavy table that featured a tool rack, bench stops, side hooks, and holdfasts to secure the work.
side-hung adj. hung at or by the side of something; spec. (of a window casement or door) attached by hinges to the side of the surrounding frame, and typically opening only in one direction; (also, of a drawer) sliding on side-mounted runners.
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1633 W. Lithgow Scotlands Welcome sig. A2v Pageants.., Where Mercury shall speake, with syde-hung wings, And Iuno kisse soft Pallas.
1880 Eng. Mechanic 16 July 439/2 When a pair of Side-hung Doors is used for closing up a Cabinet.., the Hinges that attach them to the Cabinet must be of the double kind.
1897 Surveyor 26 Mar. 317/1 A rolled-iron, side-hung casement, opening outwards only.
1956 Times 14 Apr. 8/1 (advt.) Side hung doors or overhead doors.
1977 Fine Woodworking Winter 51/2 The side-hung drawer slides on runners inset into the cabinet sides and screwed in place.
2001 S. Roaf et al. Ecohouse (2002) 319 The windows are side-hung casements.
side hustle n. U.S. colloquial (originally in African-American usage) a part-time job or occupation undertaken in addition to one's main job in order to earn extra income; cf. hustle n. 4.
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society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > auxiliary or minor work
by-work1587
parergon1607
divertment1613
by-employmenta1617
diversion1637
by-service1639
avocation1642
by-business1653
by-job1773
evocation1810
sideline1886
1950 Chicago Defender 12 Aug. 6/4 Alex Barnes of the Capitol Times was doing a public relations job at the conference as a side hustle.
2001 Black Enterprise (Nexis) June 136 West was a newly hired financial analyst living in Indianapolis with a side hustle in music stemming from his college days.
2021 @brokeblackgirl_ 14 Aug. in twitter.com (accessed 5 Jan. 2022) 90% of the skills I used to turn my side hustle into a full time business I learned at my 9-5.
† side-ill n. Scottish Obsolete a disease of sheep and cattle, probably blackleg (blackleg n. 1a); cf. quarter ill n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of sheep > [noun] > other disorders of sheep
pocka1325
soughta1400
pox1530
mad1573
winter rot1577
snuffa1585
leaf1587
leaf-sickness1614
redwater1614
mentigo1706
tag1736
white water1743
hog pox1749
rickets1755
side-ill1776
resp1789
sheep-fag1789
thorter-ill1791
vanquish1792
smallpox1793
shell-sicknessc1794
sickness1794
grass-ill1795
rub1800
pine1804
pining1804
sheep-pock1804
stinking ill1807
water sickness1807
core1818
wryneck1819
tag-belt1826
tag-sore1828
kibe1830
agalaxia1894
agalactia1897
lupinosis1899
trembling1902
struck1903
black disease1906
scrapie1910
renguerra1917
pulpy kidney1927
dopiness1932
blowfly strike1933
body strike1934
sleepy sickness1937
swayback1938
twin lamb disease1945
tick pyaemia1946
fly-strike1950
maedi1952
nematodiriasis1957
visna1957
maedi-visna1972
visna-maedi1972
1776 Patie's Wedding in D. Herd Anc. & Mod. Sc. Songs II. 190 I'se cut the craig o' the ewe That had amaist died of the Side-ill.
1806 R. Jamieson Pop. Ballads II. Gloss. 403/2 Quarter-ill. The same as side-ill; a disease to which sheep and cattle are subject.
side job n. (a) a task carried out in addition to the main purpose or objective; (b) a job undertaken to supplement income from one's regular occupation.
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1859 New Hampsh. Statesman 5 Mar. 1/5 It [sc. the United States Army] costs $18,000,000, without counting the Mormon War. That was a side job, which had its eight or ten millions to itself.
1876 W. Green & C. Hindley Life & Adventures Cheap Jack 37 Mat..had a large sum of money..that had been accumulating from one or two little side jobs.
1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 12 May f1 It may be a credit to the relative efficiency of the nation's income tax system that someone almost always is suggesting it be used for some sort of side job, beyond the mere collection of tax revenues.
2001 Jrnl. Econ. & Social Hist. of Orient 44 406 Writing one's thesis was a kind of ‘side job’.
2004 E. Reid D.B. i. 29 To make ends meet he took a side job.
side ladder n. a ladder fitted to the side of a boat or vehicle; spec. = accommodation ladder n. at accommodation n. Compounds 2.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > ladder or gang-plank
ship-ladderc1050
fall-bridge1487
way-shide1535
gallery ladder1706
side ladder1724
gangboard1769
gangway ladder1778
gangplank1785
stern-ladder1794
race board1808
gangway1846
brow1867
boarding-bridge1878
passerelle1989
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > parts of > ladder on side
side ladder1724
1724 Parker's London News No. 918 3/2 They..grievously wounded the Lieutenant; but he getting out of the Window upon a Side Ladder, thereby saved his Life.
1798 J. Middleton View Agric. Middlesex 87 These carts, with the addition of movable head, tail, and side ladders or copps, carry hay, corn, and straw.
1861 All Year Round 13 July 369/1 The boat was directly at the foot of the starboard side-ladder.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 624 Side ladder, or Accommodation-ladder, a complete staircase structure used in harbour by most large ships.
1981 N.Y. Times 25 Sept. c1/6 A six-foot-long model of a Baltimore fire department engine, complete with side ladders.
2013 Guelph (Ont.) Mercury (Nexis) 28 Dec. e8 No sooner had the ship come alongside than the crew..dropped the first container onto the dock and the side ladder down beside it.
side lamp n. (a) a lamp positioned at the side of a room or area; (b) a lamp at the side of a vehicle; (later) spec. = sidelight n. 3d.
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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > lamp on
side lamp1780
brake light1853
the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > in a specific place or position
side lamp1780
centre light1821
hall-lamp1834
headlamp1879
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > other exterior lights
side lamp1780
brake light1853
running light1863
spotlight1875
rear lamp1884
spotlamp1900
sidelight1906
parking lamp1926
parking light1927
reversing lamp1927
stop light1930
pass light1938
pass lamp1948
stop lamp1959
parker1967
1780 Catal. Effects G. B. Tyndale 3 A side lamp, with glass back.
1804 Morning Post 3 Sept. 1/3 A very handsome fashionable Curricle-hung Chaise, with a fixed head, plated mouldings, handsome side lamps, etc.
1826 J. O'Keefe Recoll. Life I. x. 376 His shaggy dress took fire from the side-lamps.
1885 E. B. Ivatts Railway Managem. at Stations 550 Lamp (side), lamps for showing red lights at the two sides of guards' vans at the end of a train, as signals to an approaching train..and white lights towards the engine driver to enable him looking back to see that no portion of his train has broken away.
1899 Sci. Amer. 18 Feb. 101/2 A head light is located under the dash board, and two side lamps as well.
1995 J. Miller & M. Stacey Driving Instructor's Handbk. (ed. 8) vi. 191 During the hours of darkness..a vehicle must display: 2 headlamps..; 2 side lamps; 2 rear lamps; 2 red rear reflectors; 1 or 2 rear fog lamps.
2014 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 16 Aug. ph2 The designer chose these side lamps to match the bedroom's light fixture above.
side laning n. Coal Mining the process of widening an abandoned access road to make it a new side of work; cf. side of work n. at Phrases 2.
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1848 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 45 463 Side-laning—Making the gate-road (when abandoned for that purpose) into an opening 10 yards wide.
1904 H. W. Hughes Text-bk. Coal-mining (ed. 5) vi. 209 A cross-drivage..will be widened out by ‘side-laning’.
1946 Trans. Inst. Mining Engineers 105 466 When a panel boundary line is reached a thirling about 7 ft. wide is driven to connect these headings, after which side laning is done increasing the width to 8 or 10 yds.
side lay n. †(a) Hunting a hound that is released as the quarry passes alongside or reaches the middle part of its course (obsolete); (b) Printing the size of the margin at the side of a printed sheet; (also) the side edge of a sheet that is placed flush with the lay gauge as the paper is fed into the machine.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > greyhound > kinds of or used for specific purpose
side lay1575
wolf-greyhound1825
Newmarket greyhound1856
harlequin greyhound1883
snap1896
dog1898
nap1926
society > communication > printing > printed matter > arrangement or appearance of printed matter > [noun] > margin
margent?a1475
marge1577
side lay1888
1575 G. Gascoigne Short Obseruation Coursing with Greyhoundes in Noble Arte Venerie 244 You may deuide your Greyhounds into three sundry parts. viz. Teasers, Sidelayes, and Backsets, or Receytes.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. ix. 187/1 Teasers and Side-lays.
1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 125 Side lay, the margin of a given measurement on one side of a sheet in printing.
1946 A. Monkman in H. Whetton Pract. Printing & Binding v. 64/2 Assuming the ordinary half-sheet of sixteens is on the machine, and the side-lay for printing the first side is at the foot of page 1, there would be a regular and accurate margin from page 1.
2000 PrintWeek 11 Feb. 30/3 The only thing the CAS machine doesn't do is set the sidelays—this has to be done manually.
side lighting n. lighting from the side, esp. as used in photography, art, theatre, etc., to produce a dramatic effect.
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1848 Dublin Univ. Mag. June 707/1 [The] casts..are crowded together in a low, mean, apartment..with all the disadvantage of obscure side-lighting.
1866 Photogr. News 25 May 243/1 How..disagreeable are the results of only side-lighting on wrinkles, small-pox holes, cheek bones, and such like!
1954 Amer. Biol. Teacher 16 202/2 The mirror of the microscope..may be deflected.., and sidelighting secured by use of a spot light.
1966 Boys' Life Feb. 56 Some types of lighting that can be used are footlights, overhead, side lighting from the wings and backlighting.
2009 R. Sammon & V. Koshlano Studio & Location Lighting Secrets for Digital Photographers x. 91 Creating this photograph with dramatic side lighting was relatively easy.
sideloader n. a forklift truck in which the fork is located at the side of the vehicle.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor lorry, truck, or van > [noun] > fork-lift truck > specific type
sideloader1951
1951 Operational Res. Q. 2 11 The paper goes on to consider the various loading machines used—cranes, loading winches, side loaders and log-hoists.
2008 A. Evans & J. Maloney Transport & Logistics 42 We..deliver anywhere in Australia and use a range of vehicles and trailers such as utes, tautliners, retractable skels, sideloaders and tippers.
side-loading n. and adj. (a) n. the action, practice, or system of loading something (esp. a gun or vehicle) from the side; (b) adj. (esp. of a truck or other vehicle) that can be loaded from the side.In sense side n.1 recorded earliest in attributive use.
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1862 Rep. Select Comm. Ordnance 219/1 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 448) VI. 111 300-pounder muzzle-loading gun... 100-pounders on the wedge or side-loading principle.
1863 Daily News 22 Aug. The trial of the side-loading gun is regarded with the greatest interest.
1876 Times of India 25 Nov. 2/5 Rolling stock on the five-and-half feet gauge..has been designed throughout India to meet the requirements of side-loading.
1912 4th Biennial Rep. Highway Commissioner (Washington State) 36 The bunkers are side loading and divided into three bins.
1920 Commerc. Vehicle 1 Aug. 4/3 Side loading of the trucks is possible when necessary because of the doors at either side of the parking space inside the building.
1967 Winnipeg Free Press 22 June 3/1 Le Bennet..has an old bolt-action repeater side-loading rifle.
1990 Amer. Rifleman Feb. 42/1 In 1881 J. M. Marlin introduced a center-fire lever-action repeating rifle featuring side loading and top ejection.
2010 E. H. Abri & S. N. Shaikh Lean & Agile Value Chain Managem. 19 Side-loading trucks..allow goods to be loaded and unloaded from the side instead of the back.
side lobe n. a lobe at one side; spec. one in the response or radiation pattern of a radio aerial, as distinguished from the central or main lobe.
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society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > radio equipment > [noun] > aerial > parts of
side lobe1843
downlead1910
anode tap1919
screen1922
lobe1926
radial1939
feed horn1952
1843 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1841–3 1 331 It differs from Bumastus in being profoundly lobed, and in having the side lobes as in Asaphus much wider than the middle lobe.
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 203/2 A rear gun-sight having side lobes, which slightly resemble two foils of the clover leaf.
1946 Proc. IRE 34 335/2 After either the side-lobe level or the position of the first null is specified, the position of the other nulls and of the side lobes can be found by simple calculation.
1947 A. D. Imms Outl. Entomol. (ed. 3) ii. 12 The palpi often arise from side lobes of the prementum known as the palpigers.
2014 C. R. Kitchin Astrophysical Techniques (ed. 6) ii. 221 Spurious features may be removed from the image if the effects of the side lobes are known.
side mark n. a mark placed at one side (also figurative); (Printing) †(a) a mark on a printing machine to guide the positioning of sheets (obsolete); (b) a mark made in the margin of a page.
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society > communication > printing > printers' symbols and directions > [noun] > reference marks
side mark1647
parallel1689
leader1824
runner1888
1647 W. Eldred Gunners Glasse 91 I take my Quadrant being fitted with sights for such a purpose, and standing at this side-mark, I look to the mark whose distance I would know.
1818 W. Hazlitt Lect. Eng. Poets (1870) vii. 164 The side-mark of the age at which they were done, wears out in works destined for immortality.
1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 125 Side mark, the fixed mark on the side which a sheet is laid to in printing on a machine.
1919 Printers' Ink 2 Oct. 69 (advt.) You will find it necessary to mark it all up—side marks on every page or so, and a lot of underlining.
1983 H. Vendler Odes John Keats 306 Besides the passages from Hamlet (all marked by underlining, side marks, or a check) that I have cited, he underlined the following relevant lines.
side mate n. now rare a companion, an associate, a partner (literal and figurative).
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1636 R. Basset tr. G. A. de Paoli Lives Rom. Emperors 49 Envy (which is alwayes the side-mate of vertue) repined.
1687 H. Crouch England's Jests 66 She..by degrees crept closer and closer to her Side-mate, till at length they were lock'd in Mutual Imbraces.
1842 J. Vernon Afflicted Muse 20 Content be side-mate of my song, To garnish life's unsettled mood.
1930 Bull. Museum of Fine Arts 28 12/1 The nearer horse..rears his head high above the others, causing his side mate to twist about abruptly towards him.
side member n. any of the components forming a side of a complex structure, spec. (a) either of the two parts forming the side of a piece of furniture, esp. a chair; (b) any of various parts forming the side of a load-bearing structure, esp. the chassis of a motor vehicle; (c) any of various parts forming the side of a boat or its frame.
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1873 C. Dresser Princ. Decorative Design iii. 55 The back of this chair, if the side members were connected by a straight rail, would have immense strength.
1898 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 24 May 1160/2 In a truck-frame, the combination of side members, a transom secured to the side members, and a bolster carried by the transom.
1915 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 31 July 174/2 The side members of the splint can be bent so as to avoid any lateral wound.
1938 Pop. Mech. Aug. 276 Make the hull of two side members of light wood such as white pine or redwood, with three cross-members on the bottom and end pieces.
1975 Times 28 Oct. 10 The greater length and weight of the Italian engine..has called for an extended chassis with a pair of side members straddling the engine.
2012 M. M. Brady tr. S. Gusrud Chairs vi. 64 The side members are smallest at the hand grips and increase in width along the legs and the arm rests.
side mill n. Engineering a circular or cylindrical milling cutter with teeth around the edge, such that it cuts as it moves sideways along the surface of a workpiece, rotating about an axis parallel to that surface.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > other specific machine tools > [noun] > milling > types of cutter
side mill1878
straddle mill1898
1878 U.S. Patent 200,777 1/2 Improvement in Coffee and Spice Mills... These devices are equally applicable to side mills wherein a grinding nut and shell are employed.
1891 U.S. Patent 461,567 2/2 These results can be secured..in grinding the teeth of end mills and the side teeth of side mills.
1898 H. S. Wilson Pract. Tool-maker & Designer i. 15 Select some good-sized straddle or side mills.
1954 H. W. Porter et al. Machine Shop ix. 312 This makes it possible to finish two or more parallel surfaces at the same time by using two or more side mills.
1993 J. R. Davis Aluminium & Aluminium Alloys 356/3 Standard milling (five passes), mm/min... Side mill center slot..203... Straddle mill reliefs..127.
side milling n. Engineering the use of a side mill; the practice of milling by means of side mills.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > [noun] > other tools or equipment
filinga1398
shovellingc1440
stamp1598
routing1846
stropping1850
beetling1859
screwdriving1864
lapping machine1877
lapping plate1877
side milling1878
broaching1888
hobbing1930
1878 J. G. Benton Fabrication Small Arms U.S. Service 70 First milling.—Making the first cut on both sides of the sear in a side-milling machine.
1910 D. de Vries Milling Machines xv. 449 The sharpening of the left side teeth of a side milling cutter with a cup wheel.
2005 J. A. Harvey Machine Shop Trade Secrets iv. 87 When milling pockets you can't avoid side milling.
side mirror n. (a) a mirror fixed or positioned to the side of something, esp. a window or larger mirror; (b) spec. (chiefly North American) a mirror projecting from the side of a motor vehicle, which allows the driver to see what is behind and to one side; cf. wing mirror n. (b) at wing n. Compounds 2.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > mirror > [noun] > other mirrors
perspective glass1570
side mirror1769
index-glass1773
Claude Lorraine glass1792
anamorphoscopea1884
magnetic mirror1884
ox-eye1890
busybody1892
rear mirror1896
triple mirror1907
three-way mirror1964
two-way mirror1967
1769 in J. Wilkes Lett. 191 I never heard that..he ever stole an amorous look at his counterfeit in a side mirrour.
1841 R. Cruikshank James Hatfield I. xix. 318 No Flemish lady, with her ‘side mirrors’ at each sash, was ever more readily informed of the ‘who’ and the ‘what’ were moving in front of the house.
1864 Preston Guardian 24 Dec. 1/5 (advt.) Large Chimneypiece Mirror, in gilt frame, with two small Side Mirrors to match.
1880 F. C. Sessions On Wing through Europe xix. 262 The house windows..are provided with little side mirrors, so..that..the inmates can see all that takes place on the streets without being seen themselves.
1910 Automobile Dealer & Repairer Dec. 1331/2 Radiator cap ornaments, hose clamps.., side mirrors, license plates, and many other specialties.
1964 Daily Inter Lake (Kalispell, Montana) 27 Oct. 1/2 Air-conditioned in both tractor and trailer, the rig..even has heated side mirrors to prevent frost.
1988 R. Hart Fox in Night x. 131 In the angled side-mirror of her dressing-table [she] noticed a gap in those curtains across the street.
2000 G. H. Ephron Amnesia xix. 165 I rolled down the window, adjusted the side mirror, and shifted the car into reverse.
side-neck turtle n. a side-necked turtle (see side-necked adj.2); a pleurodire.
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1910 R. L. Ditmars Reptiles of World i. 51 Another family of Pleurodira..are popularly called Side-Neck or Snake-Necked Turtles.
2001 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 15 July o2 Wildlife possibilities are exceptional, with sightings of woolly monkeys, giant otters,..macaws and side neck turtles.
side nippers n. Engineering nippers (nipper n.1 5a) whose cutting edges are at an oblique angle to the handle.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > pliers and nippers > [noun] > types of
bender1496
wire pliers1675
wire-cutter1794
side nippers1846
long-nose pliers1872
hawkbill1875
flat pliers1881
parrotbill1971
burr-nipper-
1846 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. II. 906 Other cutting pliers called side-nippers are oblique.
1905 Specif. & Drawings Patents (U.S. Patent Office) Feb. 2628/2 The upper ply thereof is caught by the hook..of the tucker-plate and held thereto by the side-nippers.
2002 P. Pence Equine Dentistry iv. 114 Remove the cut portions by nipping them off with incisor cutters or side nippers.
side note n. (a) a remark or statement that is not directly related to the main topic being discussed, an aside; (b) a note written or printed at the side of a page; a marginal note; (c) an incident, matter, etc., that is related to but less important than the main issue or event.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > [noun] > comment or note > marginal note
postilc1395
apostil1527
by-note1579
marginal1606
postillism1626
side note1730
marginalia1819
1730 Daily Post 23 June 1/2 To-morrow..will be an Argo-naughty-cal Oration, on Westward Hoe... Caricatura of the Times: Side Notes on Fog and D'Anvers.
1738 in tr. J. B. Du Halde Descr. Empire China I. Pref. p. ii I..have added Marginal or Side Notes to give the Reader a summary View of the Matters handled in each Page.
1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) IV. 537 Persons..who have observed the traces of his pen in sidenotes and corrections.
1893 Denver Med. Times Nov. 225 An interesting side note is..that three months subsequent to this last injury his mother discovered her son upon the top of one of our several electric light towers.
1912 Carnegie Inst. Year Bk. 1911 227 I have completed the second revise of volumes IV and V and provided headlines and sidenotes.
1961 Valley News (Van Nuys, Calif.) 11 May 33/1 c An amusing side note to the excursion occurred when one of the excursioners spilled her cologne in the bus.
1991 Personal Computer World Feb. 163/2 One side-note about the ribbon—it's like a carbon transfer typewriter ribbon in that the reverse of everything that's been printed is carefully preserved.
2015 Evening Standard (Nexis) 12 May The Incan berry is so-called because of its South American heritage... On a side note, they're known in French as ‘amour en cage’, or ‘love in a cage’.
side order n. originally and chiefly North American (an order for) a relatively small portion of food, typically served as an accompaniment to a main course; also figurative; cf. sense 23, on the side at Phrases 1f(k), and side dish n.
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1884 M. G. C. Hall Lady's Life on Farm in Manitoba 102 At breakfast..our waiting-maid when asked to bring some more bread and then tea..wanted much to learn if we had any more ‘side orders’.
1891 Boston Daily Globe 10 Jan. 2/7 Three cheers for ‘a side order of beans in Pie alley.’
1921 Arts Dec. 162/2 Those ‘side orders’ of life—truth, honesty, devotion, love.
1940 Railroad Mag. Apr. 35/1 Give me a couple of pork chops, fried potatoes and a side order of wheat cakes.
1975 N.Y. Times 25 July 19/3 We put in a side order for cauliflower gratiné..because it sounded good.
1984 J. Burchill Apocalypse Now in Sex & Sensibility (1992) 182 Sex with a side order of de Sade.
2010 L. Hudson-Smith Promises to Keep iii. 42 I think I'll just have a side order of wings. I'm not that hungry.
side-parted adj. (of hair or a hairstyle) parted on one side of the head; (also occasionally of a person) having hair parted in this way.
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1872 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 5 Jan. That sweet, arch face, with the side-parted mass of..hair.
1899 Boy's Own Paper 14 Oct. 22/2 Blue-tied, side-parted Ransom..his red-tied, middle-parted brother.
1906 Illustr. Milliner May 31/1 A heavy suit of glossy black hair is disposed in a side-parted coiffure.
1972 N.Y. Times 28 Dec. 26/5 Dark-eyed Lily, with her neatly brushed, side-parted hair.
2007 B. Battles Cleaner xvii. 135 Gone..was the slightly unkempt brown hair. Now he was sporting a slicked-down, side-parted hairdo.
side-parting n. a parting in the hair on one side of a person's head.In quot. 1841: a similar parting in a wig.
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1841 Punch 28 Aug. 84/1 The furor with which this cantatrice hurried his hands into the thick clumps of his picturesque perruque, and seemed to tear its chevaux out by the roots (without, however, disturbing the celebrated side-parting a single hair).
1876 Globe Mar. 164/2 The restlessness of the young ladies has begun to culminate as their frizzes yield to the moisture, and falling awry, obscure the elaborate side-partings of their hair.
1942 Penguin New Writing 15 8 When Pipes went for supper he had a side-parting and looked quite different.
2010 Daily Tel. 6 July 11/3 Ponytails are out but side-partings and Elvis quiffs are in.
side-partner n. U.S. colloquial (now rare) a close associate, colleague, or companion; (originally) spec. a police officer's partner.
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society > occupation and work > worker > [noun] > fellow-worker
fellowOE
labour-fellow1526
work fellow1526
yokefellow1526
fellow worker1534
yokemate1567
co-brother1590
workmate1763
butty1791
side-partner1845
deskmate1850
co-labourer1859
bobber1860
with-worker1884
society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a companion or associate > [noun] > colleague or fellow-worker
fellowOE
consort1419
confrerec1425
companionc1523
labour-fellow1526
yokefellow1526
colleaguea1533
associate1533
adjunct1554
yokemate1567
colleagen1579
co-agenta1600
co-operatora1600
collateralc1600
co-workman1619
co-workera1643
partner1660
co-operatrix1674
co-agitator1683
co-adjoint1689
adjoint1738
side-partner1845
co-operatress1865
maugh1868
with-worker1884
1845 N.Y. Herald 18 Mar. 1/3 I afterwards gave her in charge to my side partner; I afterwards saw her at the watchhouse.
1890 N.Y. Evening Post 23 May 8/2 The arrest was made by the witness's side partner, it being his night off.
1904 Amer. Amateur Photographer 16 409/2 My side-partner had prepared a basin of hot water.
1921 R. D. Paine Comrades Rolling Ocean ix. 159 We shall have to consult my side-partner, Briscoe.
1955 Huntington Libr. Q. 18 409 Four important documents relating to the fateful territorial dispute between Francisco Pizarro, conqueror of the Inca empire, and his side-partner, Diego Almagro.
side path n. a path at or to the side; esp. one alongside or leading off a main thoroughfare; also in extended use.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > track, trail, or path > [noun] > side
side path1683
sidetrack1834
by-track1836
society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > track, trail, or path > [noun] > out-of-the-way
bistighec1340
bypathc1374
side path1683
1683 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Two Disc. Soul of Brutes i. iv. 26 By this side-path of the Prominences, and by the Passage of the Medullary Passages, there are Commerces held between the Brain and the Cerebel.
1798 J. Baillie Tryal iv. iii. in Series Plays Stronger Passions I. 266 Sir Loftus is just coming up the side path, madam, and he'll be at the door immediately.
1819 Providence (Rhode Island) Patriot 2 Oct. Admiral Plampin..sent his secretary and the signal midshipman galloping down the steep side path from the Briars to ascertain what was the matter.
1854 C. Dickens Hard Times ii. xii. 250 Indifferent to the rain,..she struck into a side-path parallel with the ride.
1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Aug. 625/4 Those who love to wander down historical sidepaths.
2001 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 15 Sept. c1/2 Enhancements..including bike-pedestrian sidepaths on heavily traveled streets.
side pavement n. now rare †(a) a paved area to the side of something (obsolete); (b) a paved footpath alongside a street or road; = pavement n. 2b.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > path or place for walking > [noun] > foot(-)path > by side of street or road
plainstones1611
flanker1682
side pavement1685
footwalk1701
sideway1738
sidewalk1739
pavement1743
banquette1772
footpath1776
trottoir1789
walkway1792
parapet1795
causeway1796
flag-way1800
flags1801
pave1835
flagstone1840
flagging1851
walk1913
pedway1965
1685 J. Jackson et al. Annot. Holy Bible II. (Ezek. xl. 18) sig. Oo3v/2 The side pavement was laid somewhat lower then this middle pavement.
1806 T. Lloyd & G. Caines Trial of T. O. Selfridge 50 The deceased was standing on the side pavement in front of the shop.
1859 Habits Good Society Pref. Two side-pavements and a very bad road.
1913 Times 11 Nov. 7/4 Its principal streets are at least as wide as Piccadilly, and their side pavements broader than the Burlington Arcade.
2006 M. Pearl Poe Shadow (2007) ii. 22 I collided with..a large man who could have flattened me out on the red brick of the side pavement.
† side peep n. Obsolete a surreptitious sideways glance.
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1711 Spectator No. 250 Such Enormities as tipping the Wink,..the side peep thro' a thin Hood or Fan, must be put in the Class of Heteropticks.
1863 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 31 Oct. 1/2 Just take a side peep at that merry group of teamsters!
1883 Dublin Penny Jrnl. 20 Apr. 343/2 The younger female..could not resist an occasional side peep... She was afraid to look steadily.
1893 Notts. Guardian 11 Mar. 6/1 I took a side peep at Archie.
1914 Chambers's Jrnl. 17 Jan. 105/1 Jimmy went up the first two or three dozen rungs of the ladders... A little more and he ventured upon a side peep at the scenery beneath him.
side piece n. a piece or part forming the side of something, or attached or fixed at the side.Chiefly in general use, but in some contexts with a specific meaning: see, e.g., quots. 1854, 1867.
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the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [noun] > something at the side
lateral1578
side piece1592
flanker1631
1592 ‘C. Cony-Catcher’ Def. Conny-catching sig. Ev Hee cut three foreparts to the gown, and four side pieces.
1653 in Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. 1888–9 (1889) 23 302 Two peece of imbrodered courteens of reed cloth wherof one syde peece one fute peece [etc.].
1711 J. Hempstead Diary 11 Oct. (1901) 2 I worked about ye corn & making a Side peice for Peter Manwarings Bedstid.
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. at Rider The axle-tree, upon which the side-pieces rest, in a four-wheel carriage.
1849 C. Dickens David Copperfield (1850) xiii. 138 A mob-cap: I mean a cap, much more common then than now, with side-pieces fastening under the chin.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 233 Side-pieces, the longitudinal pieces of timber lying under the rafters between the ridge and wall-plates.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 625 Side-pieces, parts of a made mast.
1928 Daily Express 16 Aug. 5/2 A car (with a left-hand drive and a hood but no side-pieces).
1989 D. C. Davidson Spectacles, Lorgnettes, & Monocles 21/1 Ingots were..drawn into thin wire for twisting into cables for spectacle side-pieces.
2010 N.Y. Mag. 5 Apr. 26/1 I decided to turn that tattoo into a huge side piece... I just couldn't face the world with a tramp stamp.
side play n. freedom or room for movement in a sideways direction.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > [noun] > movement of parts
travel1799
side play1808
1808 Repertory of Arts 2nd Ser. 12 88 A cross spring bolted or otherwise fastened on the bottom of the body, fixed across or underneath the spring.., to give it side play.
1905 E. C. C. Baly Spectrosc. iii. 50 It is..necessary that the jaws move smoothly in their grooves without any trace of side play.
2007 A. Bance tr. C. Schönhaus Forger (2008) 54 These grooves..had to be filed down to the last hundredth of a millimetre, to prevent any side-play in the movement of the barrel.
side port n. (originally) a door or entranceway at or to the side; (later) an opening or aperture in the side of something.In quot. 1703 as part of an extended metaphor.
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1535 Bible (Coverdale) Judges xvi. 3 But Samson..toke holde on both ye syde portes of ye gate of the cite.
1703 J. Browne Surgeons Assistant Introd. 5 At the sides of this Palace are exsculpt two Side Ports, or Organs of Hearing.
1855 Pract. Mech. Jrnl. 7 36/1 Its cut-away portions coincide with the side ports, c, in the cylinder.
1927 Harper's Mag. Oct. 644/1 We screwed up the side ports, and began to secure the doors of the alleyways.
2005 R. D. Guyer & T. P. Corbin in P. Kambin Arthroscopic & Endoscopic Spinal Surg. (ed. 2) x. 227 He developed a cannula with a side port through which an endoscope could be inserted.
side pot n. Gambling (chiefly Poker) a subsidiary betting pool created after a player has bet all of his or her funds in the main pot, in order to allow other players to raise higher bets on the game among themselves; cf. pot n.1 11b and to go all in at all in adv. 2a.While all players, including the player who has gone all in, are able to win the main pot, only those players who have contributed to the side pot are entitled to win it.
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1890 Woodland (Calif.) Daily Democrat 20 Feb. McNeil and Reid were shaking dice with me and Hughs. They got into a quarrel over a side pot.
1901 Daily Tribune (Salt Lake City) 3 Nov. 28/2 C has a card in the hole of different color, so A's hand beats him. Does C take all of the pot, or does A win the side pot?
1951 J. Jones From Here to Eternity xx. 296 He had jacks backed up and by the third round he was all in, for the side pot his twenty shared, unable..to go into his pocket for more money if he had it, which he did not.
2002 A. Bellin Poker Nation i. 15 A ‘side pot’ of $2,000 would be created (one grand of Joey's and one grand of Liam's) for them to compete for.
side product n. something obtained as a result of or after a primary process, phase, etc.; a secondary product, a by-product.
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1857 1st Ann. Rep. Maine Board Agric. 1856 i. 51 We cannot afford..to retain all the manure yielded as a side product of the land.
1936 W. Stiles Introd. Princ. Plant Physiol. vi. 131 The malic acid being formed as a side product from the main line of katabolic reactions.
2008 Daily Tel. 15 Dec. (Business section) b4/4 Side products, including lighting, heating and doors and windows..come later in the construction process.
side profile n. (a view or representation of) the outline of something seen from the side (= profile n.); also in in side profile: as seen from the side.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > portrait-painting > a portrait > profile
half-cheek1598
purfle1601
profile1638
side-face1650
side profile1668
1668 J. Evelyn tr. R. Fréart Idea Perfection Painting 27 The Painter has made her be seen by a side Profile, as the most advantagious [Fr. le profil, qui est le costé plus avantageux] to discover the shape and regularity of each part of a beautiful face .
1813 B. Clark tr. Hierocles Hippiatrica Berolinensia in Index to Sectional Figure of Horse 5 To inquire..whether the side profile [Gk. τὸ εἰς πλευρὸν τεῖνον] of the horse should be of an oblong or a square form.
1876 Pet-stock, Pigeon & Poultry Bull. Nov. 179/1 In side profile, a perfect pea comb on a Brahma cock..should curve upwards evenly for about three-fourths of its length.
1944 San Antonio (Texas) Light 17 June 2/4 Banking over them as he did gave them only a side profile of the plane to shoot at.
2007 L. Berglund in R. Underwood Roll! Shooting TV News ix. 150 If you were shooting a story on people with large noses, it would be quite easy to use harsh lighting and side profiles to accentuate that feature.
side project n. an undertaking secondary or subsidiary to a more significant project or occupation; (in later use frequently) spec. a popular music group or act formed by a musician or musicians better known as part of an existing band.
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1860 Boston Daily Advertiser 4 Oct. A transcendent estimate of the cross of Christ as a reformatory power..is free from all secular schemes and side projects of partial reform.
1917 Rep. Northeast Demonstr. Farm Duluth 1916 (Univ. Minnesota) 12 The apiary is gradually developing as a side project.
1985 Billboard 2 Mar. 4/1 A similar superstar side project is..‘Power Station’, a new group formed by John and Andy Taylor of Duran Duran.
1991 E. B. Roberts Entrepreneurs in High Technol. i. 18 He had received a cash settlement for the development of a machine, a side project he had managed while working as a consulting engineer.
2002 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 14 Feb. a13/1 Lund has just recorded his second album with what was once his side project.
side reaction n. Chemistry a subsidiary reaction taking place in a chemical system at the same time as the main or intended reaction.
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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [noun] > chemical reactions (general) > side reaction
side reaction1880
1880 Amer. Jrnl. Pharmacy 52 467 In the attempt to prepare the amyl acetic ether in an analogous manner side reactions were found to interfere.
1973 Sci. Amer. Oct. 60/3 High-energy intermediates are frequently formed in chemical syntheses, but if they are not isolated from water or other reactive substances, they decompose in side reactions that lower the yield of the reaction.
2007 Nature 22 Feb. 826/2 The first bromine-induced cyclization was observed more than 40 years ago, but only as a side reaction.
side rebate plane n. a rebate plane having the blade projecting from the side rather than the sole; cf. side plane n.2
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1846 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. II. 489 When..the rebate plane is meant to cut at the side, it is called the side-rebate plane.
2010 Woodwork: Step-by-Step Photographic Guide 27/1 The blades of side rebate planes sit in a very flat body and are used to trim the sides of small grooves.
† side rebating plane n. Obsolete = side rebate plane n.
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1812 P. Nicholson Mech. Exercises 95 Rebating Planes are the moving fillister, the sash fillister, the common rebating plane, the side rebating plane.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 582 The former are used to smooth the side of a rebate, and therefore are called side rebating-planes.
side rib n. (a) (in singular and plural) either side of a person's ribcage or torso; (b) any of various rib-like pieces or parts at the side of an object or structure, as a boat, building, gun, leaf, etc. (cf. rib n.1 II.).
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > bellows > parts of
under-board1781
rib1811
bellows-spring1852
bellows-tail1852
feeder1852
side rib1852
table1852
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 235 Þe lengþe from þe sole of þe foot in to þe top of þe heued is suche sixe as þe brede, þat is from þe myddel of þe side ribbes in þe oþer side.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 72 Thee top wyth sideryb of Atlas Hee sees.
1811 J. E. Smith Eng. Bot. XXXII. 2267 Calyx-valves elliptical, their side-ribs obsolete or smoothed away.
1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 106 New side rib for carbine, with ring fitted.
1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 37 Between the upper and under-board there are six boards,..four longer ones, two on each side of the bellows, called side-ribs.
1905 Shoe Retailer 1 Mar. 21/1 The measurements from breastbone to backbone and from side rib to side rib tell the true story of chest capacity.
1921 Motor Boat (N.Y.) 10 Mar. 30/1 The hull construction is of 2 in. by 4 in. side ribs, 3 in. by 8 in. bottom ribs.
1993 Independent (Nexis) 24 Apr. 43 The thick stems of tomato plants..are trained like vines up the side ribs of the greenhouse.
2006 Yoga Jrnl. Oct. 126/1 As you inhale, lift your side waist, side ribs, and chest to bring your spine..toward vertical.
side road n. (a) a minor or subsidiary road, esp. one leading off a main thoroughfare; (b) Canadian a rural road running across a concession (concession n. 2b), typically at right angles to a concession road (now historical and preserved in road names).
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > along side boundary of land
side road1691
sideline1831
society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > minor road or side road
lateral1578
by-road1673
vicinal way or road1677
side road1691
cross-road1719
branch-road1831
feeder1855
secondary road1903
feeder road1959
1691 J. Wilson Belphegor iii. v. 37 D'ye see that blind side Road, on the left hand of my Vineyard, as ye came.
1746 J. Newball Contrast 25 Any Weight drawn on two Wheels, especially in a Side Road, will cut deeper than thrice the Weight drawn on four.
1841 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 17 Apr. 100/2 Good broad roads traverse each concession [in Upper Canada], and are joined by side roads from various directions.
1958 R. Liddell Morea ii. viii. 190 South of Argos, a side-road, off the main road to Tripolis, leads to Kefalári.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Feb. 3/6 The partly frozen body..was found Sunday beside the Nixon Side-road.
1998 J. F. Hart Rural Landscape viii. 161 Side roads every few miles connected the concession roads.
2000 J. Harris Blackberry Wine (2001) xxiii. 117 Lansquenet is a tiny place; a single main street and a few side roads, a square with a few shops.
side-row n. New Zealand and Australian Rugby a collective term for the two players (one on either side of a scrum) that bind with the lock forward; often attributive.More widely known as flankers or flank forwards: cf. flanker n.1 3d, flank forward n. at flank n.1 Compounds 2.The term originates from the seven man scrum used in New Zealand until the 1930s, which only employed a single lock forward.
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1906 D. Gallaher & W. J. Stead Compl. Rugby Footballer vii. 106 The side-row men press on the hookers, and the back-row men push against the lock.
1999 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) (Nexis) 7 Sept. 23 McLeod must be a top contender to fill the vacant spot in the red-and-blacks' side-row.
2006 Gold Coast Bull. (Austral.) (Nexis) 26 May 43 Thorne is back to his regular side-row position for the final as the champions prepare for an intense showdown.
side salad n. a salad served as a side dish.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > [noun] > dish > side-dish
entremet1477
by-dish1599
garnisha1640
side dish1702
side plate1714
side1847
banchan1938
side salad1940
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared vegetables and dishes > [noun] > salad
saladc1390
round salad1578
acetar1623
acetary1657
green salad1675
sass1775
potato salad1796
Russian salad1846
egg salad1873
sunomono1900
salade niçoise1907
Spanish salad1911
Waldorf salad1911
gado-gado1924
Spanish sauce1928
panzanella1937
side salad1940
Caesar salad1946
Cobb salad1947
wedge salad1949
chaat1954
fattoush1955
tabbouleh1955
pico de gallo1958
Caesar1978
caprese1978
1940 Winnipeg Free Press 28 Feb. 7/2 To make dinner tempting and attractive there must be those little side salads or, if preferred, a giant salad in the centre of the table.
1972 D. Sale Love Bite ii. xvii. 212 She..helped herself to a side salad of avocado in French dressing.
2005 Asian Woman Feb. 77/2 My friend indulged in a rich mushroom soup with a side salad.
side scale n. a graduated scale at one side, esp. on the vertical axis of a graph; (Ordnance) a vertical scale marked with degrees of elevation for use when adjusting the elevation of a gun (now chiefly historical).
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > equipment for use with firearms > [noun] > measuring instruments
gunner's quadrant1628
gunner's scale1628
gunner's rule1692
side scale1745
1745 Short Way to know World (new ed.) viii. 32 Set off the Course by a Semicircle..; then from the Side Scale, or Scale of Miles, take the Distance between your Dividers.
1834 J. H. Stevens Pointing Guns at Sea 19 If the pendulum showed a heel of five degrees, the weather guns must be depressed to the fifth degree by the coins or side scale and the lee guns elevated as much.
1889 Publ. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 1 332 By taking the measured strength of any individual on the side scale, say 74 pounds,..the proportionate rank may be read off.
1925 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 107 314 The position of the carriage is obtained from readings on the side scale.
2003 N. Hanson Confident Hope of Miracle (2006) v. 105 Even when guns and shot functioned properly, there were no side scales to aid accuracy of fire.
side-scene n. Theatre a piece of scenery or movable screen at the side of a stage; (in plural) the areas to either side of a stage out of view of the audience; the wings.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > sides
side-scene1675
side wing1698
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wing1790
side-slip1808
coulisse1819
prompt corner1872
tormentor1886
P1901
1675 Ld. Chamberlain's Warrant 25 Jan. in E. Boswell Restoration Court Stage (1932) 236 To widen the whole stage by drawing Back the side sceenes & altering the frames & Groves accordingly.
1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem iv. 45 (stage direction) Goes behind the side-Scene, and listens.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 14. ⁋15 At the Hay-Market the Undertakers forgetting to change their Side-scenes.
1824 T. Carlyle tr. J. W. von Goethe Apprenticeship v. xi, in tr. J. W. von Goethe Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship & Trav. II. 35 Two men of large stature..were observed standing in the side-scenes.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. iv. 37 He watched her at the side-scene—where she stood waiting to come on the stage.
2005 D. P. Fisk Four Restoration Libertine Plays p. xlix ‘Wings’ (side scenes) framed the shutters, adding depth and ornamentation.
side school n. (a) Scottish a subsidiary school, typically in an area remote from the main school in a region (now historical); (b) New Zealand a small school merged with but on a different site from a larger school.
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society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > other types of school
writing schoola1475
rectory1536
spelling school1704
greycoat1706
rural school1734
Charter School1763
home school1770
Philanthropine1797
British school1819
side school1826
prep school1829
trade school1829
Progymnasium1833
finishing-school1836
field schoola1840
field school1846
prairie school1851
graded school1852
model school1854
Philanthropinum1856
stagiary school1861
grade school1869
middle school1870
language school1878
correspondence school1889
day continuation school1889
prep1891
Sunday school1901
farm school1903
weekend school1907
Charter School1912
folk high school1914
pre-kindergarten1922
Rabfak1924
cram-shop1926
free school1926
crammer1931
composite school1943
outward-bound1943
blackboard jungle1954
pathshala1956
Vo-Tech1956
St. Trinian's1958
juku1962
cadre school1966
telecentre1967
academy2000
academy school2000
1826 Parochial Educ., Scotl.: Acct. State Establishm. 430 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 95) XVIII. 1 In Dysart there is a side School, attended by about 75 children. The teacher has no other emoluments than his School fees.
1858 Otago Witness (Dunedin, N.Z.) 7 Aug. 5/2 He would propose that a side school be erected at Sawyers' Bay.
1957 Scotsman 26 Nov. 6 The side-schools in Shetland came to be looked on as centres of communal life and thought. People had a homely interest in their own particular side-school.
2001 Christchurch (N.Z.) Press (Nexis) 28 June 17 He is proud that Lagmhor School has been saved by making it a side-school of Ashburton Borough.
side scraper n. Archaeology a broad flint implement with a scraping edge on one of its longer sides; cf. racloir n. 2.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > archaeology > artefacts > methods of production > tools for
side scraper1872
pressure flaker1938
1872 J. Evans Anc. Stone Implements xiii. 272 When the instrument is broader than it is long, it has been termed a side scraper.
1958 W. Willetts Chinese Art I. i. 33 Several hundred flake-tools were recovered, including side-scrapers, chisels, and points.
2001 Oxoniensia 65 232 The remaining scrapers were a simple side-scraper with one single steeply-retouched edge..and a small ‘button’ scraper.
side screen n. (a) (chiefly with reference to landscape painting) a secondary feature at the side of a scene or composition, serving to show perspective and lead the viewer's eye into the principal scene (cf. repoussoir n. 2a); (b) a screen at the side of a vehicle; spec. a protective screen at either side of an open motor vehicle (cf. side curtain n. 2).
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > landscape-painting > a landscape or view > part of
side screen1782
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > body or bodywork > front part > side-curtains
side screen1904
side curtain1911
society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > locomotive > cab for driver > curtains in
side screen1970
1782 W. Gilpin Observ. River Wye ii. 8 Every view on a river, thus circumstanced [with steep banks], is composed of four grand parts; the area, which is the river itself; the two side-screens, which are the opposite banks, and mark the perspective; and the front-screen, which points out the winding of the river.
1790 J. Hassell Tour Isle of Wight II. xxviii. 163 At every turn a bold woody promontory assisted as a side screen.
a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) I. xiv. 263 He talked of fore-grounds, distances, and second distances—side-screens and perspectives. View more context for this quotation
1889 Hub (N.Y.) 1 Oct. 515/1 A cheap emigrant wagon, an improved grocery delivery wagon with side-screens, a farm wagon with adjustable bolster-spring, [etc.].
1904 Automobile 31 Dec. 730/3 Covered cars are largely represented this year, the most popular type appearing to be the double phaeton, with..side screens that can be readily raised and lowered.
1944 Mod. Philol. 42 76/2 The proscenium formed a natural frame, and the wings were the inevitable side screens of irregular rocks, trees, cottages, etc., conventionally employed in all picturesque art.
1970 N. Fleming Czech Point xiv. 191 The canvas sidescreens to the cab flapped in the wind.
2001 Automobile June 61/2 The hood and side screen will be covered in fawn double duck cloth.
2013 J. L. Peterson Educ. in School of Dreams v. 196 Scenic films..using picturesque compositional strategies such as side screens and composition in depth.
† side-scription n. Scots Law Obsolete a signature at the side of a document, across a join where the sheets are pasted together lengthwise; (also) the action or fact of signing each join of a document in this way; cf. side-sign vb.
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society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > personal identification > signature > [noun] > signing
subscribing1444
subscriving1445
signing1450
subscription1492
signature1570
subsignation1573
assignment1598
side-scription1758
1758 H. Dalrymple Decisions Court of Session 1698–1718 lxxxvi. 110 The side-scription of the second and third sheet being intire makes that sheet unquestionably authentick.
1775 Fergusson's Decisions Court of Session, 1738–52 ii. 31 The disposition from Helen Arnot, which conveyed the property, was reduced, the side-scriptions having been proved to be forged.
1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 916 Side-scription. Before the introduction of the present system of writing deeds ‘bookwise’, the sheets were pasted together at length; and in order to authenticate them, the party was required to sign his name at each junction, half on the one sheet and half on the other. This was called side-scription.
1859 Sc. Jurist 31 431/1 It is clearly meant to apply only to deeds if they are written upon two sheets, which must be joined together, in a certain manner, with sidescriptions at the junctures.
side-scroller n. Computing a side-scrolling computer game.
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1991 Toronto Star 3 Aug. j4 Once in a while, a really good, inventive new side-scroller comes along. Like Sonic.
1997 Macworld June 94 Abuse adds some features missing from the old style of two-dimensional sidescroller games.
2007 E. Adams & A. Rollings Fund. Game Design viii. 265 In traditional side-scrollers, the joystick controls left and right movement.
side-scrolling adj. Computing designating a computer game in which a continuous background image scrolls horizontally across the screen (usually from right to left), giving the impression that a character controlled by the player is moving forwards through the setting of the game; of or relating to such a game.
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1990 Toronto Star 15 Dec. e2/1 This is not a blast-'em-up, side-scrolling Nintendo game that requires nothing more than quick reflexes and a bad attitude.
2001 Electronic Gaming Monthly Aug. 70/1 Wario 4 features side-scrolling gameplay similar to the past games but with much improved graphics.
2011 R. Dillon Golden Age of Video Games iii. 124 Running at high speed across colorful levels added new excitement to side-scrolling action games.
side seat n. (a) a seat facing to the side or placed at the side in a vehicle such as a carriage, bus, or boat; (b) a manner of sitting on horseback in which the rider uses a side-saddle and has both feet on the same side of the horse (now rare).
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > manner of sitting on horse > specific
low ridingc1598
side seat1742
balance-seat1873
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > parts and equipment of vehicles generally > [noun] > seat > of specific type or position
driver's seata1726
side seat1742
driving seat1788
back seata1832
aisle seat1838
car seat1850
reclining seat1857
window seat1862
passenger seat1867
seat-board1873
garden seat1884
bucket-seat1908
shotgun1940
Sleeperette1950
sleeper seat1960
1742 R. Poole Journey France & Holland I. 68/2 There were 8 in the Coach, viz. 4 in the Body of the Coach, and 4 at the Side Seats of the Coach.
1836 N.-Y. Mirror 13 Feb. 257/2 These are gigs, holding two, with an external side-seat for the driver.
1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 538 In spite of her side-seat, the body should be square to the front.
1901 Daily News 5 July 4 In the stern with the side-seats out there is room for 3 or 4 drift-nets.
1913 Field Illustr. 1 Nov. 428/2 If the side seat is to go, well go it must, and it is safe to say that if it does..it will be because the majority of women prefer the cross seat.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 563 The car and horse..turn. Corny Kelleher on the sideseat sways his head to and fro in sign of mirth at Bloom's plight.
2009 Mail Today (Nexis) 5 Sept. Luckily, even at the peak of the tourist season, I got a side seat in a mini-bus to Leh leaving at 2 in the night.
† side-sign v. Scottish Obsolete transitive to sign (a document) at the side, across each join where the sheets are pasted together lengthwise; cf. side-scription n.
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society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > personal identification > signature > sign (a document) [verb (transitive)]
sign1442
assign1563
underwrite1569
subsign1572
undersign1580
paragraph1601
style1619
side-sign1708
signature1766
re-sign1805
autographize1822
autograph1833
1708 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 22) ii. ii. xii. 493 If there be more Sheets than one in the Decreit, the Principal Clerk side-signs the joining of every Two Sheets.
1757 R. Hog Decisions Court of Session 1681–91 253 An assignation by a wife cloathed with a husband, consisting of two sheets, not side-signed by the cedent, was sustained in respect of her judicial ratification in Ireland before the Mayor.
† side-sill n. Obsolete (apparently) a piece of ironwork attached to or forming part of the side of a plough or cart.
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1394–5 in East Anglian (1871) 4 85 i sydsele, and j londplate, and j rast.
side-skid v. intransitive to move sideways while skidding; spec. = skid v.1 3b, 3c.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > movement of vehicles > move or go along [verb (intransitive)] > skid
side-skid1906
skid1907
slew1914
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skiing > ski [verb (intransitive)] > actions of skier
run1654
sidestep1894
herringbone1904
traverse1905
side-skid1906
side-slip1913
sitzmark1935
angulate1963
schuss1963
unweight1981
1906 Automobile 5 Apr. 594/1 Some cars show a tendency to side skid more than others.
1950 Pop. Mech. Dec. 104/2 It is true that soft tires do give a very slight increase in braking capacity, but this is more than offset by a greatly increased tendency to side skid.
2010 B. White 7 Secrets Skiing ii. 101 Allowing your skis to side-skid..helps you to largely overcome your personal and equipment limitations.
side skidding n. the action of moving sideways during a skid.
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1884 Brit. Trade Jrnl. June 343/1 The ‘side skidding’ which is such an objectionable feature in some tricycles.
1901 Horseless Age 18 Sept. 529/1 The presence of the metal wires increases the adherence of the tire to the ground, and side skidding and slipping are reduced.
1971 J. O. P. Watt Centenary Invercargill Municipality 70 They played the game of side skidding on the bitumen.
2012 P. Federolf et al. in E. Müller et al. Sci. Skiing V 156 This movement could be related to side-skidding and seemed to occur particularly at the end of the second turn.
side skirt n. (a) (a piece of cloth forming) either side of the lower part of a coat, dress, etc.; usually in plural (now rare); (b) a panel fitted to the side of a motor car or other vehicle, extending below the main bodywork between the front and rear wheels and typically also covering the wheel arches.
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1608 G. Wilkins Painfull Adventures Pericles iv. sig. D The Fishermen..furnishing him..with the long side skirtes of their cassockes.
1767 Public Advertiser 7 May The Coat double-breasted, yellow Metal Buttons, three on each Cuff, and..one at the Bottom of the Side Skirts.
1826 Vermont Patriot 17 Oct. 160/4 She held the side skirt of her basquina, and..made many graceful inflections.
1916 Motor World 19 July 67 (advt.) Also side skirt and skirt in rear to cover rear axle.
1924 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 12 Oct. 2/1 Little Miss Sybil Primrose in a stunning gown of the French period with her side skirts standing out.
1984 Skiing Feb. 57 (advt.) This slick combination of body fascias, side skirts, spoiler and air dam does more than make Trans Am exciting to look at.
2013 A. M. Jones Between Urban & Wild 80 Fresh manure will paint the side skirts of my low-slung car.
† side-span v. Obsolete transitive to tie together (the front and back legs on one side of a sheep); = sideline v. 1.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [verb (transitive)] > hobble
warlocka1400
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hopple1586
impester1601
trammel1607
wisp1607
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side-hankle1627
sidelanga1642
sidelangle1660
side-span1660
hamshackle1802
hobble1804
twitchel1826
sideline1837
span1847
heel1887
1660 R. Barret Perfect & Experienced Farrier 9 Side-span the other legs for three dayes, and this will cure him.
1743 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman (1744) Nov. xi. 97 Or Side-span them [sc. sheep], as we call it, by tying a fore Leg to a hind Leg, with an Allowance for Length of String.
sidespin n. Sport spinning motion given to a ball around its horizontal axis.
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1887 Boy's Own Paper 3 Sept. 778/3 The round-arm service..puts a slight side-spin on the ball.
1970 B. J. King Tennis to Win ii. 25 The other variation is a down-the-line approach shot..in which the ball is hit with pronounced sidespin.
2001 Golf Mag. Feb. 70/2 Focus on rhythm and balance to reduce sidespin and hit straighter shots.
sidesplit n. North American (chiefly Canadian) a split-level house having floors raised half a level on one side; cf. backsplit adj. and n. (b) at back- comb. form Additions.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house of specific shape or style
hall-house1467
longhouse1643
bungalow1676
single housea1684
tower-house1687
villa1755
box1773
cottage orné1774
villarette1792
mews1805
cottage1808
terrace house1817
casita1822
villa dwelling1833
villa residence1833
box-house1846
six-roomer1853
terrace1854
tembe1860
moat house1871
parlour house1871
row house1871
salt-box1876
trullo1898
townhouse1900
colonial1903
semi1912
Cape Cod1916
bungaloid1927
semi-detached1928
ranchette1938
solar house1946
rambler1947
rancher1950
ranch1951
tunnel-back1957
sidesplit1958
two-up-and-two-downer1958
two-up two-down1958
semi-det1960
A-frame1963
townhouse1965
tri-level1965
link house1968
split1970
dormer bungalow1977
1958 Economist 22 Feb. 671 The uninitiated in split-level living often experience a complete loss of direction and elevation, particularly if they find themselves in one of the variations, such as a ‘side-split’ or a ‘fore-and-aft split’.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 15 Jan. 23/1 (advt.) Why not see this spacious side-split..in Etobicoke?
1983 K. Dryden Game 52 Match-box bungalows became side-splits and ranch-style homes.
2014 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 12 Apr. ph9 This four-level sidesplit offers bright living space that's ideal for a family or downsizers.
side-spotted adj. marked with spots on the side.In quot. 1872 referring to trout.
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1701Side spotted [see Compounds 2c].
1872 Aldine 5 35/2 Long before noon the creel was crammed with the largest side-spotted collection I had ever made in that stream.
1899 W. T. Greene Cage-birds 60 The Diamond Sparrow..is a pretty bird, and is also called the Side-spotted Finch.
2000 E. A. Sugden in G. Smith Sierra East vi. 221 The Common Side-spotted Mosquito, Aedes dorsalis..is common in the Eastern Sierra.
side spring n. now historical and rare an elasticated panel at either side of an item of footwear, esp. a boot, enabling it to be pulled on and off easily.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > elastic sides of boots
spring1834
side spring1844
gusset1881
boot-gusset1882
1844 Leeds Mercury 6 Jan. 1/2 A beautiful Side Spring Leather Clog.
1846 Morning Post 3 Dec. 1/4 Side Spring Clogs, which require no fastening.
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 524/2 Satin dress boots, with elastic side springs.
1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xxvii. §4962 The ordinary side-spring boots.
1960 C. W. Cunnington et al. Dict. Eng. Costume 57/2 Croquet boots, of morocco leather often with fancy toe-caps and ‘side springs’.
2001 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 19 Jan. 14 The boots were manufactured with ‘side springs’ (elastic inserts) adapted to the particular shape of each footwear item.
side stitch n. (a) a sudden sharp pain in a person's side (cf. stitch n.1 2a); (b) a stitch in or at the side of something; (Bookbinding) a stitch made through the outside of the folded sections of a book.
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1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 408 Side stitch, drink the water or decoction thereof.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 328 Thou shalt haue cramps, Side-stitches, that shall pen thy breath vp. View more context for this quotation
1825 Linguist 16 July 269 I have a side stitch, I feel a pain in my side.
1836 Knickerbocker Oct. 409 How many stitches were in-wrought by the patient tailor, and how many side-stitches by process of thankless duns were wrought.
1840 Miss Watts Ladies' Knitting & Netting Bk. 2nd Ser. (ed. 2) 102 Purl 1 row knitting the last stitch and a side stitch together.
1970 R. K. Kent Lang. Journalism 121 Side stitch, a binding stitch in which wire staples or thread is stitched through folded signatures.
1998 N.Y. Times 14 Aug. b34/6 Heading up a nasty hill I had a side stitch that sent pain through my gut with each step.
2007 Amer. Printer Sept. 34 The bindery choices were rivets or grommets, side stitch.., side sewn, spiral or wire-o.
side strain (a) strain acting upon something laterally; an instance of this; (b) Angling the action or an act of holding a fish with the rod tip close to the water and to one side of the angler, to prevent the fish from getting snagged on any obstacles in or under the water during landing.
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1822 Repertory of Arts 2nd Ser. 41 324 It is..superior to the common ship's anchor in its property of sustaining a lateral or side strain.
1895 Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate 17 May 3/3 Slowly and steadily he moved ahead, combating the side strain.., when, zip, the rod swung over.
1898 Mod. Bicycle (Commercial Advertiser Assoc.) iv. 43/2 By pressing with your foot on the pedal of a wheel made with a single front fork you will be surprised to see how much sway or side strain there is.
1917 Recreation Aug. 73/2 I dashed up the lake to get a position where I could put him under a twisting side strain instead of letting him have a straight-away pull.
1973 R. L. Robinson Compl. Course in Professional Locksmithing (1983) iii. 27/1 Optimum positioning of the deadlocking lever is usually in the exact center of depth of the lock case to avoid any side strain.
2004 N. Reynolds Occas. Salmon xi. 176 When you hook him you must put side strain on to keep him away from those bushes.
side street n. a minor or subsidiary street, esp. one leading off a main thoroughfare.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > street > [noun] > side or cross
side street1617
by-street1684
return1756
off-street1793
cross-street1827
rat-run1966
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 273 The rest of the side streetes and allies being of poore building.
1894 H. Caine Manxman v. xxii. 423 Philip turned into a side street.
1925 Amer. Mercury Jan. 47/2 In the side-street saloons and the all-night road-house which such gentry conduct you can always find trouble.
2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 5 Mar. v. 7/3 L'Expédition, a tiny bar on a side street off Rue des Moulins.
side-striped adj. marked with stripes on the side.
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1899 F. V. Kirby Sport E. Central Afr. 324 Side-striped Jackal (Canis adustus).
1912 C. Birdseye Some Common Mammals Western Montana in rel. Agric. & Spotted Fever (U.S.D.A. Farmers' Bull. 484) 24 Side-striped ground squirrels..occur throughout much of the rocky, timbered country of western Montana.
1995 R. D. Bartlett & P. P. Bartlett Chameleons 72/2 There are presently three recognized races of the side-striped chameleon, but they are not easily differentiated by external morphology.
side suit n. Cards (chiefly Bridge and Whist) a suit other than trumps; spec. a long suit of this kind which can be used to the player's advantage.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > suit
suit1563
strong suit1742
side suit1883
1883 J. C. Van Dyke Bks. & how to use Them iv. 52 Sort out your authors in your head very much as you would sort out a hand of cards at whist. You place your trump-cards here, and your side-suits there, and range them in the order of their strength and use in the game.
1912 F. Irwin Fine Points Auction Bridge 89 No guarded queens nor guarded jacks in side-suits, may be counted as raisers.
1974 National Skat & Sheepshead Q. Mar. 29 This decision is based upon the official rule of calling a side suit ace.
2007 N.Y. Times 1 Mar. e8/5 Generally you should prefer the 4-4 fit as your trump suit and the 5-3 fit to be a side suit.
sidesway n. (a) a rolling motion from side to side in a moving vehicle; (b) a sideways movement or displacement of the upper part of a building or structure as a result of wind pressure.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > [noun] > due to wind pressure
sidesway1839
society > travel > air or space travel > specific movements or positions of aircraft > [noun] > swinging from side to side
sidesway1839
fish-tailing1931
1839 Mechanics' Mag. 13 Apr. 21/1 With the balance weights on the wheels..; the side sway was gone.
1930 Morning Post 21 July 4/4 Sidesway or rolling occurs at right angles to the propeller shaft.
1932 H. Cross & N. D. Morgan Continuous Frames Reinforced Concrete iv. 108 This indicates sidesway..of the frame sufficient to make ΣH = O.
1980 Daily Tel. 11 June 14/5 Fast cornering producing rather a lot of side-sway.
2000 Struct. Engineer 1 Feb. 20/4 The guide suggests an allowable sidesway deflection limit due to imposed/wind loads.
side swimming n. the action of swimming on one's side; cf. sidestroke n. 3.
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1816 J. Frost Sci. Swimming xi. 46 The action in side swimming, is the same as in front swimming; with the exception of some difference in the movement of the arms.
1906 R. F. Nelligan Art Swimming (new ed.) i. 21 It is a mistake in side swimming to spread the legs to the sides as in the breast stroke; for it causes the body to turn on the breast, and thus impedes progress.
2007 Internat. Jrnl. Hist. Sport 24 646 A special swim test..consisted of swimming roughly a half mile in distance, and included back, breast and side swimming.
side tackle n. (a) Nautical (usually in plural) a tackle used on board ship to pull and manoeuvre heavy artillery (now historical); (b) American Football (apparently) either of two players positioned on the left or right of the ball at the line of scrimmage (obsolete rare).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > types of player
side tackle1809
nose guard1852
rusher1877
goalkicker1879
quarterback1879
runner1880
quarter1883
full back1884
left guard1884
snap-back1887
snapper-back1887
running back1891
tackle1891
defensive end1897
guard1897
interferer1897
receiver1897
defensive back1898
defensive tackle1900
safety man1901
ball carrier1902
defensive lineman1902
homebrew1903
offensive lineman1905
lineman1907
returner1911
signal caller1915
rover1916
interference1920
punt returner1926
pass rusher1928
tailback1930
safety1931
blocker1935
faker1938
scatback1946
linesman1947
flanker1953
platoon player1953
corner-back1955
pulling guard1955
split end1955
return man1957
slot-back1959
strong safety1959
wide receiver1960
line-backer1961
pocket passer1963
tight end1963
run blocker1967
wideout1967
blitzer1968
1809 L. de Tousard Amer. Artillerist's Compan. II. xxii. 404 The men hook the side tackles..to the port rings on each side of the gun.
1856 C. Nordhoff Man-of-war Life iii. 63 The side-tackle men manage the tackles by which the gun is run out..and slewed, or turned either forward or aft of the beam.
1891 N.Y. Tribune 20 Oct. 5/4 He was of fine presence, standing six feet high, and was side-tackle on his college football team.
1996 J. Slagle Ironclad Captain 337 The navy was now enlisting former slaves as apprentice seamen, to haul on the side tackles of the big guns.
side-taking n. the action or an act of taking sides in a conflict or debate; = siding n. 2.
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society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [noun] > partisanship or factionalism
partiality1520
partaking1533
factiona1538
factiousness1572
siding1600
side-taking1626
parting1652
partying1681
party spirit1705
party1726
party feeling1796
partyism1831
partisanship1834
factionism1848
partisanism1850
factionalism1855
partisanry1889
1626 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. VIII. O.T. xx. 104 It fell out well, that her sudden amazednesse called her forth, without the attendance of any strong guard; whose side-taking might haue made that quarrell mutually bloody.
1640 Bp. J. Hall Episcopacie ii. 140 Emulation and side-takings amongst, and against their teachers.
1898 B. Gregory Side Lights 504 Side-taking does not become party.
2012 J. Caspi Sibling Aggression ii. 33 Side-taking, or alliance building, is a power move as well as a way of distracting from the immediate stress of discord.
side thrust n. (a) a lunge from the side with a sword or other sharp weapon; (figurative) an indirect attack or criticism, a sideswipe; (b) a thrust or force that acts sideways.
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1598 L. A. tr. M. Martínez Seuenth Bk. Myrrour of Knighthood iv. sig. H3 Quickly with a syde thrust vpon it, he had almost tumbled her to the ground.
1782 W. Cowper Retirement in Poems 293 To..stab religion with a sly side-thrust.
1821 J. G. Lockhart Valerius I. xii. 254 Then is the time for the gladiator to start aside, and have at him with a side-thrust.
1855 Ecclesiologist 16 338 The lofty and unstable outer walls of the wide nave would be forced apart by the side-thrust of the vaulting.
1998 Eng. Hist. Rev. 113 302 Whately did indeed open with what was perhaps a side-thrust at the Duke of Newcastle's ‘salutary neglect’.
2001 RCM & E (Radio Control Models & Electronics) Mar. 69/2 I needed 3° of side-thrust..to offset torque from the GMS 76.
side tone n. Telephony and Telecommunications the reproduction of a user's voice in his or her own telephone receiver; a signal in an earpiece that originates in the mouthpiece of the same instrument; sound so heard; (also) = side frequency n.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > signals or tones > interference
side tone1893
singing1923
babble1930
1893 Electr. Engineer 2 Aug. 118/2 Apparatus for Telephonic and Telegraphic Circuits... For the elimination of side tones or undesired signals.
a1944 K. Douglas Alamein to Zem Zem (1946) 38 The operator..breathed and hummed into the microphone, listening for sidetone.
1978 Sci. Amer. Mar. 59/1 Too little side tone gives the telephone an unnatural ‘dead’ sound.
1981 Direct Support, Gen. Support, & Depot Maintenance Man. (U.S. Dept. Army Techn. Man. 11-5820-35-1) 1-15/1 The audio amplifiers and headset permit the operator to hear a sidetone of the signal being transmitted.
2010 A. Morrison Bandwidth 176 The delay in the transmission and the strange side tones meant that his voice was being bounced from a post far from here.
side tool n. Engineering a cutting tool that has the cutting face at the side and is fed laterally along a workpiece.Cf. right side tool n. at right adj. and int. Compounds 2.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > [noun] > specific tools
hook1680
rough grinder1777
side tool1804
bottom tool1819
broad1846
sweep1847
wobbler1875
knurl1879
cam-cuttera1884
fly-cutter1884
1804 Philos. Mag. 19 175 Should a side tool with many teeth be made use of, a screw of any length may be cut.
1922 J. W. Roe Mech. Equipm. xiv. 220 In most turret lathes auxiliary side tools are carried to definite stops on a cross slide.
2010 R. Kesavan & B. V. Ramnath Machine Tools iii. 39 Inclined surfaces are machined by using side tools in the vertical tool head.
side-trace n. rare (now historical) (in plural and †singular) a pair of side straps, chains, or ropes by which a draught animal is attached to the vehicle it pulls; = trace n.2 1, 2.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > traces
tracec1350
side rope1370
wain-rope1371
trace14..
soam1404
pintrace1440
side-trace1445
wain-string1464
theats1496
treat1611
trek-tow1822
trace-chain1844
tug-strap1882
trek-rope1883
trace-rope1900
1445–6 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 630 Pro..10 paribus de Sydtrace ad 8d.
1803 C. Taylor Script. Illustr. Distinctions Eastern Chariots 7 It seems remarkable enough, that no side traces to the horses occur in antiquity: we should think we lost at least half the strength of the horses, by such omission.
1958 F. Stark Alexander's Path xii. 166 He remembered Pedasos, his Cilician forebear, who was put in the side-traces and followed with the immortal horses.
side trawler n. now chiefly historical a trawler whose nets are set and hauled over the sides; cf. stern-trawler n. at stern n.3 Compounds 2.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > trawler
trawler-boat1599
trawl-boat1799
trawler1847
trawling sloop1860
trawling smack1887
mumble bee1891
sailing-trawler1891
trawl-smack1895
side trawler1956
stern-trawler1961
pair trawl1967
pair trawler1973
1956 Fairplay Weekly Shipping Jrnl. 17 May 858/1 The design had to be based on the use of the equipment for the ordinary side trawler as well as for stern trawlers.
1978 Sat. Night (Toronto) Dec. 25/3 Two huge reference books full of pictures and diagrams of stern trawlers, side trawlers, half a dozen different kinds of draggers.
2000 G. Karlsson Hist. Iceland iv. 359 In 1977,..the number of side trawlers was down to one, while stern trawlers were up to seventy-seven.
side trip n. a minor excursion off the main route of a journey or trip, esp. for sightseeing; also in extended use.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > aside from the main journey
by-journey1673
side trip1856
1856 Bentley's Misc. 40 495 After a side trip to the baths of Pfäffers and a rove over the Calanda hills, our tourists continued their way by Coire, Reichenau, and Tusis to the pass of Splugen.
a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. viii. 212 He's got a nasty streak in him... He put me on the Island once for a little side trip I made.
1966 Guardian 24 Dec. 4/3 Another family..spent three weeks in Jutland, with a side trip of a couple of days in Copenhagen.
2006 Sacramento (Calif.) Bee (Nexis) 6 July e10 We'd been exploring Bodega Bay and its environs on a recent Sunday and took a side trip to Bodega Head.
side turning n. a place or point where a side road branches off a main road.
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1869 Mrs. H. Wood Roland Yorke I. i. 15 He saw before him a small knot of people emerge from a side-turning, as if they had not taken the direct route.
1965 M. Spark Mandelbaum Gate iii. 54 He dodged down a side-turning into the shop of an Arab dealer.
2000 J. J. Connolly Layer Cake 263 A Merc G-Wagon jeep..looking completely out of place in a side-turning offa Tottenham High Street.
side vegetable n. a vegetable served on the side, or as a side dish.
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1889 F. L. Gillette White House Cook Bk. 368 Green-corn pudding... If eaten plainly with butter, it answers as a side vegetable.
1904 Mass. Ploughman 9 July 6/3 Fried green tomatoes..may be served on the platter with the steak, or as a side vegetable.
1991 Herald (Folkestone) 27 Dec. 28/3 Serve with..side vegetables such as steamed courgettes, matchstick carrots, brussel sprouts.
side-whisker n. (a) a strip of facial hair grown by a man down each side of his face in front of the ears; a sideburn; (in extended use) a similar strip of fur on an animal's face; usually in plural; (b) a curl of hair on a woman's cheek; cf. whisker n.1 4c (rare).
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1799 R. Duppa Jrnl. Remarkable Occurr. in Rome xi. 81 The beard upon the upper lip was permitted to grow, and the side whiskers to extend towards the corners of the mouth.
1867 E. Coues in Amer. Naturalist 1 287 Their ears are often tufted, and one species, at least, has ‘side-whiskers’ formed by the true fur, in addition to the labial bristles which ordinarily receive this name.
1869 G. P. Upton Lett. Peregrine Pickle 237 F. H...was as impervious to lightning as a glass non-conductor, and in a chaotic sort of way caressed the promise of a side whisker just beginning to dawn on his cheek.
1888 F. Hume Madame Midas i. ii. 24 Heavy side whiskers and moustache.
1932 Evening Standard 28 Jan. 17/3 Lady Ancaster's veil stops short at the tip of her nose, and is only long enough to keep her ‘side whiskers’ in order.
2002 L. Meier Birthday Party Murder (2003) 143 One man, sporting a top hat and luxuriant side-whiskers, appeared to be their leader.
side-whiskered adj. having side whiskers.
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1859 Baltimore Amer. & Commerc. Advertiser 1 Oct. 2/2 Now there is scarcely any liberty a side-whiskered puppy may not take with a young lady, provided he does it in public.
1887 Atchison (Kansas) Daily Globe 1 July No one would imagine, to look at the pale side-whiskered faces of the Lutheran college committee, that the members were such competent leg pullers.
1926 Spectator 24 July 126/1 Hilmar Tönnesen, side-whiskered chief of the grotesques.
2011 N.Y. Mag. 18 July 59/3 Here you'll find what the owners call contemporary Roman cuisine cooked by a bespectacled, side-whiskered dude.
side wing n. (a) Architecture a wing projecting from the side of a building; (b) Theatre a piece of scenery or movable screen at the side of a stage; (in plural) the areas to either side of a stage out of view of the audience; the wings; †(c) (in plural) sideburns (obsolete rare).
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > sides
side-scene1675
side wing1698
slips1771
prompt sidec1782
wing1790
side-slip1808
coulisse1819
prompt corner1872
tormentor1886
P1901
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > styles of whiskers
side wing1811
mutton chop1851
Dundreary whiskers1859
mutton cutlet1860
Piccadilly weeper1866
burnside1875
Dundrearies1876
sideburn1876
sidebar whiskers1882
sideboards1883
weeper1894
slugger1898
ear guards1905
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 270 The Side-Wings [sc. of the temple] and the Middle half way down the Nave, being left for the Men; all the rest is Occupied by the Women.
1707 E. Settle Siege of Troy iii. 23 The Scene opens and discovers a Grove..over a Tarras Walk, is seen a Beautiful Garden of six side Wings.
1811 M. Wells Mem. Life Mrs. Sumbel III. 220 And a fourth, with locks bushed out on his temples, burlesquing the side-wings of your noble head.
1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. xiii. 257 Just a side wing or two run up..and three or four scenes to be let down. View more context for this quotation
1819 J. Dugdale New Brit. Traveller III. 577/2 The mansion is a substantial..building..with two side wings projecting from each front.
1881 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 402/1 It seems as if certain actors in some preceding comedy of his were standing at the side-wings, and critically watching the progress of the after-piece.
1935 E. J. R. Isaacs Archit. for New Theatre 124 The rehearsal room, connected on one side with the work space in the side wings and on the other with the stairway to the administrative offices, [etc.].
1983 B. G. Wilson Enterprises R. Hamilton 1 A splendid Georgian mansion..with..one-storey side wings and covered galleries.
2000 Observer (Nexis) 8 Oct. (Review section) 8 Painted side-wings and cloths rise and fall in the style of an eighteenth-century theatre, changing swiftly and simply.
† side wire n. Obsolete an electrical wire forming a shunt to the main coil of an induction coil.
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1873 E. Klein et al. Handbk. Physiol. Lab. xix. 352 The current enters as before, but in its course to the primary coil it passes..partly through the side wire.
1901 E. B. Titchener Exper. Psychol. I. ii. 144 The Helmholtz side-wire is removed, and the Wagner hammer (interrupter) is out of function.
1920 W. D. Halliburton Handbk. Physiol. (ed. 15) ix. 90 Helmholtz..introduced a modification now known after him. It consists in bridging the current by a side wire.
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siden.2

Brit. /sʌɪd/, U.S. /saɪd/
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: side n.1
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps a transferred use of side n.1 (compare to put side on at sense 24 and compare note below), although perhaps compare side adj. 3 and sidy adj. (beside later sidey adj.).With the possible analogy from billiards compare: 1865 Baily's Monthly Mag. Sept. 214 ‘Too much “side” on,’ says a friend, as a lovely creature passed. ‘What do you mean by “side”, my good fellow?’ ‘Oh, I was thinking of billiards; I meant “curl”.’1870 Punch 5 Nov. 194/2 As she walked along in front of this impressionable Dragoon, she put no end of side on... A girl who puts side on, judiciously, hits you high up on the left, you undercumstumble, and sends you into the pocket, or up, sharp, against the cushion.
colloquial (originally and chiefly British).
Conceit, arrogance, swagger; pretentiousness, affectation; insincerity. Frequently in negative constructions, and in to put on side: to put on airs, show off.
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the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [noun]
pensifulnessc1450
affectation1548
affection1570
affectedness1622
lady aira1637
fastuousness1649
gentility1650
fastuosity1656
vapouring1656
flatulency1662
hoity-toity1668
pretendingness1701
with an air1701
pretension1706
flatulence1711
uppishness1716
high and mightiness1771
pensieness1825
fine-gentlemanism1831
pretentiousness1838
ambitiousness1845
stuckupishness1853
pretensiveness1859
notion1866
side1870
dog1871
hoity-toityism1881
superiority complex1921
snootiness1932
uppitiness1935
snottiness1973
snoot1984
swag2002
the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > pretend to superiority [verb (intransitive)]
to make it goodlyc1325
usurpc1400
to take state upon one1597
to come over ——1600
to gentilize it1607
to state it1625
to give oneself airs1701
to put on airs1715
to mount (also ride) the high horse1782
to put on (the) dog1865
to get (also have) notions1866
to put on side1870
to have a roll on1881
to put (or pile) on lugs1889
side1890
to put on the Ritz1921
1870 Punch 26 Nov. 230/1 Swagger a bit, and put on ‘side’ in the streets of the gay Versailles.
1880 J. Payn Confidential Agent I. xi. 207 The Captain sauntered up the Mews, with a good deal of ‘side on’, which became a positive swagger as he emerged into the more fashionable street.
1882 Standard 29 Sept. 5/2 With..all our ‘offishness’, or ‘side’, as they call it, we and our cousins in the Far South get along amazingly well.
1896 J. Hocking Fields of Fair Renown xii. 128 They seem to have no side; they are all as jolly as may be.
1919 E. S. Sorenson Chips & Splinters 67 He was down from Texas Station with a cheque for recreation, And he seemed to own creation by the way he put on side.
1934 P. G. Wodehouse Right ho, Jeeves xii. 170 A frightful oik, and a mass of side to boot.
1972 J. Speight Till Death us do Part: Scripts (1973) 107 I'm not going around putting on no side—I am what I am, an' that's what I'm gonna be.
2012 Buses Apr. 5/2 There was no side to Peter Huntley. At Go North East, he exchanged his trademark open-necked checked shirts for suit and tie, but was entirely natural with everyone.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

siden.3

Brit. /sʌɪd/, U.S. /saɪd/, Scottish English /sʌid/
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: side n.1; sithe n.1
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps the same word as side n.1, or perhaps the reflex of an otherwise unattested Shetland variant of sithe n.1 (compare sense 5b at that entry).
Scottish (Shetland). Now rare.
A period of time. Only in phrases, as in the night side: during or in the course of the evening, in the season side: in the course of the season, while the season lasts. Sc. National Dict. (at Side) records the word as still in use in Shetland in 1970.
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1897 Shetland News 4 Sept. Shü's no sleepin'. I wiss shü may get a blind [i.e. a little sleep] i da night side.
1898 Shetland News 6 Apr. Diel set i' my haands whin I tak edder spade or shivel ta da muir i' da saison side.
1900 Shetland News 26 May Dis kirn is no laek ta brak i' da night side.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

sideadj.

Brit. /sʌɪd/, U.S. /saɪd/, Scottish English /sʌid/
Forms: Old English siddra (comparative, rare), Old English–Middle English sid, Middle English cyyd, Middle English cyyde, Middle English sedder (comparative, rare), Middle English siȝde, Middle English syd, Middle English syyd, Middle English–1600s side, Middle English–1600s syde; English regional (northern and eastern) 1700s– side, 1800s– seyde (Cumberland), 1800s– syde; also Scottish 1700s– side, 1700s– syde.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with Middle Dutch sīde , sijt low, deep, (rare) wide, broad (Dutch zijd broad, wide, extensive), Middle Low German sīt low, Old Icelandic síðr (of hair, clothes, etc.) long, hanging low, Old Swedish siþer , sidher long, hanging down, low, low lying (Swedish sid long, hanging down, low lying, deep), Danish sid hanging down, low lying, and probably further with Old English sīþ (adverb) late, afterwards, later, after (see sithen adv.), perhaps < the same Indo-European base as Welsh hyd length, duration, period of time, early Irish sith- (in compounds) long, continuous, classical Latin sētius later, to a lesser degree. Formations from the same Germanic base are shown by side adv.1 and side n.1 With uses collocated with wide compare Middle Low German wīt unde sīt ; compare also wide and side at side adv.1 1 and parallels from other Germanic languages cited at that entry.
Scottish and English regional (chiefly northern) in later use.
†1.
a. Extending over a large surface or area; having broad or wide proportions; large, extensive, ample. Obsolete.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > of vast extent
broadOE
sideOE
wideOE
largec1230
spaciousa1382
unridea1425
amplea1492
well-spreadc1540
main1548
overreaching1579
widespread1582
spacious1587
wide-spreading1587
scopeful1598
vasty1598
scopious1599
vast1600
worldwide1602
spaceful1621
dimensious1632
voluminousa1661
extensive1706
sheety1748
sweeping1772
extended1779
expansive1806
wide-spreaded1820
heaven-wide1835
spanless1847
rangy1898
OE Andreas (1932) 762 Æfter þyssum wordum weorud hlosnode geond þæt side sel.
OE Beowulf (2008) 437 Þæt ic sweord bere oþðe sidne scyld.
c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 53 (MED) Þe croune of clerke y-opened hys, Tokneþ þe wyl to heuene..And sedder Tokneþ, ase he ine ordre aryst, Þet hys þe croune breddour.
c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 353 (MED) Hit watz a cete ful syde and selly of brede.
c1450 (c1350) Alexander & Dindimus (Bodl.) (1929) 481 Þe side se we mow sen set vp-on erþe.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 116v Our pepull to sle Our Citie to sese and our side londes.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 118 Soght þai the sure prinse thurgh the syde batell.
1563 B. Googe Eglogs Epytaphes & Sonettes sig. K.iiii That vyle deformed Churle, Whose foggy Mates, with paunches syde do thycke aboute him whurle.
b. Far away, distant; (also) going or extending to a distant place, far-reaching. Obsolete. rare.Recorded earliest in the Old English compound sīdwegas (plural) distant parts (compare way n.1).
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the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [adjective]
sideOE
fara1000
ferrenc1160
lungeteync1330
on dreicha1400
yondera1413
widec1425
roomc1443
lontaignec1450
remote1533
distant1549
remotedc1580
disloigned1596
discoasted1598
dissite1600
far-off1600
aloof1608
longinque1614
distantial1648
Atlantic1790
far-distant1793
far-away1816
far-apart1865
way off1871
OE Cynewulf Elene 282 Ða wæs gesamnod of sidwegum mægen unlytel, þa ðe Moyses æ reccan cuðon.
OE Exodus 428 Ne behwylfan mæg heofon and eorðe his wuldres word, widdra and siddra þonne befæðman mæge foldan sceattas, eorðan ymbhwyrft and uprodor.
c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) iv. l. 28 (MED) Þey..lete write writtis all ein wex closid..And sente side sondis to schreuys abouȝte.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 26 His towne was takon..His Suster sesyd and soght into syde londis.
2.
a. Reaching or hanging far down the body; hanging low, trailing; long.
(a) Of a garment, sleeve, etc. Frequently in collocation with wide; cf. sense 2b. Now rare.See also side-coat n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > of specific length
foot-sideOE
sideOE
long-side1575
sidelong1575
nock-shorn1632
talarian1671
three-quarter1713
overknee1831
talaric1853
high water1856
ankle-length1876
long1882
hip-length1893
knee-length1895
thigh-length1895
fingertip1920
mid-calf1931
wrist-length1935
floor-length1939
cropped1954
waltz-length1958
two-thirds1963
calf-length1965
midi1968
OE Ælfric 1st Let. to Wulfstan (Corpus Cambr. 201) in B. Fehr Die Hirtenbriefe Ælfrics (1914) 84 Johannes..geseah urne Drihten..mid alban gescridne, and seo wæs sid niðer oð ða andcleowa.
a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 39 Betere is were þunne boute laste þen syde robes ant synke into synne.
a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 1534 For now wers men short and now syde, Now uses men narow and now wyde.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 1925 Þat I may..A side slauyn him sewe & send him to his modire.
c1475 Mankind (1969) l. 671 (MED) Hys syde gown may be tolde.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. liiv Their cotes be so syde, that they be fayne to tucke them vp whan they ryde.
1541 ‘J. Sawtry’ Def. Mariage Preistes sig. Cv In dilating their wyde and syde gownes, loking for cappe, kne, mastership, lordeship, grace fatherhod [etc.].
?1548 J. Bale Image Bothe Churches (new ed.) i. sig. Cvv I sawe hym clothed wyth a side lynnen garment downe to the grounde.
a1591 H. Smith Serm. (1593) 436 Like a man in the darke, which puts on another mans coate for his owne, that is too wide, or too side for his bodie.
1616 T. Gainsford Rich Cabinet f. 142 Sorrow fashioneth an vnruly heart to good order, as a wide and side garment is cut & pared, and plighted and put together in a fit and comely manner.
1673 W. Hicks London Drollery 75 And I mun ha my Goon made Fit unto my Body; Side and wide and long enough..As fine as any Lady.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 95/2 Tucking, is to draw up the depth of a Peti-coat being too side or long, and that is by foulding a part over another.
1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. 95 Side, long, as garments are when too big.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. ix. 202 That part o' his garments, which it does not become a leddy to particulareeze, was baith side and wide.
1828 in P. Buchan Anc. Ballads & Songs N. Scotl. I. 104 What's come o' a' your green claithing Was ance for you too side? And what's become o' your lang stays Was ance for you too wide?
a1878 H. Ainslie Pilgrimage to Land of Burns & Poems (1892) 339 My gude grey plaid, baith syde an' wide, I airtit to the wun'.
1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. Side, long: usually applied to a coat, as ‘Side coat’, for Great coat.
1901 R. De B. Trotter Galloway Gossip Eighty Years Ago 287 She wore her goons verra side, an soopit the streets wi them.
1983 W. L. Lorimer & R. L. C. Lorimer New Test. in Scots Luke xx. 148 Tak tent o the Doctors o the Law, at is fain o struntin back an fore in side an wide gouns.
†(b) Of the hair, a beard, a part of the body. Obsolete.
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the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [adjective] > long
sideOE
bushy1615
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [adjective] > hanging loose
sideOE
untrussed1494
sidelong1598
loose-flowing1777
loosened1798
OE Old Eng. Martyrol. (Julius) 25 Aug. (2013) 166 Se beard ond þæt feax him wæron oþ þa fet side.
c1300 St. Bartholomew (Laud) 66 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 368 His berd is long and sid i-nouȝ.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8079 (MED) Lang and side þair brues wern, And hinged all a-bout þair hern.
c1480 (a1400) St. Bartholomew 218 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 186 Þare-with a syd berd It had.
?a1534 H. Medwall Nature i. sig. ciiv I loue yt well to haue syde here.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 29 Oxne and Bules snawquhyte with a mane thick and syde.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xliv. xix. 1182 The haire of their head long, their beards side and overgrowne.
1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) vii. xxii. 679 He hath a round thicke head, a short nose,..broad and sydelips.
1726 Edinb. Evening Courant 4 Oct. A dog with small black and white spots on his legs, pretty side black Ears.
1788 Dumfries Weekly Jrnl. 9 Dec. The Black Mare was bunted; but when stolen, the hair was near as side as her hough.
†b. gen. Measuring a great distance from end to end; extensive in length; (also) having the specified length; long. Frequently in side and wide, wide and side: long and wide; large (cf. side adv.1 1). Obsolete.Early instances of side and wide and wide and side are probably pleonastic formulas with the sense ‘broad and wide’ and thus belong at sense 1a. Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) records this sense as still in use in Perthshire and Ayrshire in the 1920s.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > direction > specific directions > [adjective] > extending lengthways
side?a1400
endlong1480
lengthway1691
longitudinal1705
longitudinated1774
protensive1836
lengthwise1871
OE Genesis A (1931) 1655 Gesetton þa Sennar sidne and widne leoda ræswan.
OE Christ & Satan 698 Wite þu eac, awyrgda, hu wid and sid helheoðo dreorig, and mid hondum amet.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 9174 & ta wass romess kine dom Full wid & sid onn eorþe.
c1330 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Auch.) l. 818 Þe bor so loude cride, Out of þe forest wide and side.]
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. l. 7397 Grante it me myself to saue, ne no more lond, wide no side, þan I may sprede a boles hide.
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iii. l. 1052 Chese a boor Gret bodied, side & wide, ek rather rounde Then longe.
1580 R. Bristow tr. St. Augustine in Reply to Fulke ix. 215 How know you in all Christendome beeing so wide and side, lest perhaps before you did separate your selues, some did afore separate them selues for some iust cause.
1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Eiiv The other contayneth neither length, breadth nor sidenes, (beeing not past a quarter of a yarde side) wherof some be paned.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. ii. 37 Their Formes doo vanish, but their bodies bide; Now thick, now thin, now round, now short, now side.
1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. Gloss. at Sideling In Lincolnshire, and most Northern parts they use the word side for long, as a side-field, a long field.
1876 S. R. Whitehead Daft Davie 190 A street so ‘syde-and-wyde’ that there was elbow-room for everyone in Boulder in it.
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words (at cited word) Aa'll tyek some o' this check; say, a yard side.
a1896 W. Morris Coll. Wks. (1914) XXI. Introd. p. xxxv I am lady of the land, My hall is wide and side.
†c. High; steep. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adjective] > inclined from level or sloping > steep (except of hills, etc.)
staira1175
slidingc1325
steepa1400–50
side?a1475
right-up1511
steep-down1530
steepwise1542
headlonga1557
steep-up?a1560
pitch hill1560
pendent1587
high-pitched1596
steeped1596
perpendicular1598
steepy1735
declivitous1799
steepish1814
escarped1853
steep-cut1888
swooping1956
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [adjective] > type of roof
thatched1467
side?a1475
thacked1530
vaulted1552
shingleda1563
slated1611
unshingled1611
high-pitch1614
slate-pointed1648
killesed1649
hipped1663
pantiledc1672
overpitched1677
underpitched1677
low-pitcheda1684
pitched1773
theeked1792
peaked1797
shingle1810
thackless1810
choppered1818
wagon-headed1823
unlathed1854
break-back1856
shingly1857
saddleback1861
scaled1862
gambrelled1863
thatchy1864
weather-slated1870
thatchless1882
weather-tiled1887
monopitch1941
tile-roofed1962
?a1475 [implied in: Promptorium Parvulorum (Winch.) (1908) 435 Stepnesse, or sydnesse of a rofe, eleuacio. (at sideness n. 2)].
1673 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 41 Side,..steep.
1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. Gloss. at Sideling In Lincolnshire, and most Northern parts..they use the word side..for high as a side-house, a side-mountain.
1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 351 Side, long, deep; spoken of a roof.
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Side,..steep.
†d. Perhaps: (of a story) lengthy, long-winded. Obsolete.Alternatively interpreted as showing the senses ‘oblique; indirect’ or ‘beside the point; digressive’ (cf. side n.1 Compounds 1d(a), Compounds 1h), but cf. line 832 of the work cited in quot. c1475: ‘And forto saye sothe and shone long tale’.
ΚΠ
c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) iii. l. 170 If I sothe shall saie and shonne side tales.
3.
†a. English regional (northern). Haughty, proud. Obsolete.Cf. quot. ?1507 at side adv.1 1, and see note at that sense.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > [adjective]
highOE
rankOE
proudOE
quaint?c1225
stoutc1315
proud-heartedc1400
gobbedc1440
pridyc1485
high-minded?1503
superb1561
proud-heart1591
tiptoe1593
sublime1596
high-headed1599
magnificent1603
side1673
vaunty1724
perked-up1754
spicy1768
jelly1828
Latin1914
1673 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 41 Side,..Proud.
1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. Gloss. at Sidelinge A side woman, i.e. a haughty proud woman.
1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield (at cited word) I met Mrs. —— in the town, and she was very side.
b. Scottish (north-eastern). Severe or hard on or upon a person. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > strictness > [adjective] > severe or stern > severe upon
smart1549
side1825
to be rough on1868
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > harshness or severity > [adjective] > severe upon
smart1549
side1825
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Side upon, metaph. used as signifying, dealing hardly or severely with, distressful to, Aberd.; most probably from the idea of a garment, which is too long, being cumbersome and entangling to the wearer.
1880 W. Robbie Heir of Glendornie i What'll mak' the laddie's deeth mair side apon's fadder.
1895 N. Roy Horseman's Word iii. 32 Hout, tout, Tam!..you're just some syde on Geordie.
1934 Aberdeen Univ. Rev. Mar. 126 Ye're a' some side upo' me 'cep' the loonie.
†4. English regional (East Anglian). Of a garment, sleeve, etc.: tight-fitting, narrow, clinging. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > [adjective] > confined, restricted, or insufficiently spacious > not capacious
incapacious1668
sidea1825
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) 300 In modern usage..we..use the word in the sense of strait. ‘This sleeve is too side, it must be let out.’
1866 East Anglian 2 327 [Words used in Suffolk.] Too side (adj.) too straight.

Compounds

C1. Forming parasynthetic adjectives.
† side-bellied adj. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1566 T. Blundeville Bredynge of Horses i. f. 4v, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe Suche kyndes of groundes..do bryng forth no other but slowe, heauy, dulle, grosse hedded, syde bellied, and gouty legged Iades.
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie vii. 18 When the bytches are lyned, and that they beginne to be sydebellyed.
1672 F. B. Office Good House-wife 32 Keep..for Sows those which are long, side-bellied, small-headed, large-buttockt, and sides giving out.
† side-faxed adj. [compare Old English sīdfeax long-haired] Obsolete
ΚΠ
OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 428 Þa gefeng hine an treow be ðam fexe sona, forðan þe he wæs sidfæxede.
OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 256 Capillatus sidfexede [c1225 Worcester sidfexede]; comatus se ðe loccas hæfð.
† side-haired adj. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xx. 50 Of the browne Hartes there be some great, long, and side haired.
† side-lipped adj. Obsolete
ΚΠ
a1500 (c1400) Vision of Tundale (Adv.) (1843) l. 889 His mowthe was wyd and syde lyppud.
† side-tailed adj. Obsolete
ΚΠ
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxiv The fourth [property of a fox is] to be syde tayled.
1578 Edinb. Test. VI. 232b in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) Ane syd talit blak coit.
1745 Caledonian Mercury 21 Oct. He sold another Brown side-tail'd Horse.
1822 H. Ainslie Pilgrimage to Land of Burns 190 He wore an old light blue, side-tailed coat.
1848 Hogg's Weekly Instructor New Ser. 1 309/1 Samuel was seen issuing from his own door that evening about half-past five, in his side-tailed coat and Sunday breeches.
C2.
† side-robe n. Obsolete (with the) the legal profession; = long robe n.
ΚΠ
1658 F. Osborne Trad. Mem. Reign Elizabeth 25 in Hist. Mem. Reigns Elizabeth & Iames It abated the price of his opposers, the most of whom belonged to the side-robe.
† side-fathomed adj. [compare Old English sīdfæþme, in the same sense] Obsolete (of a ship) capacious, having a broad hull.
ΚΠ
OE Beowulf (2008) 302 Sidfæþmed scip, on ancre fæst.
† side-waisted adj. Obsolete (a) (of an area) large, extensive; (b) = long-waisted adj. 1.
ΚΠ
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 19 Of a bounzing side-wasted parish in Lancashire, we haue a flying voyce dispersed.
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 180 Like our side-wasted Parishes in Lancashire, whose extensure is so large [etc.].
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 92/2 Terms used by Taylors... Side Waisted, is long or deep in the Body.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

sidev.1

Brit. /sʌɪd/, U.S. /saɪd/
Forms: see side n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: side n.1
Etymology: < side n.1 Compare Middle Dutch siden , ziden to set aside, to exempt, (reflexive) to stand aloof (from), to evade (Dutch zijden (of an inheritance) to be passed down one side of the family). Compare siding n.
I. To make or have sides.
1. transitive. To cut or carve (an animal, esp. a fish, as cooked for food) into sides. Cf. side n.1 5a. Somewhat rare after Middle English.Apparently historical between the 17th and 19th centuries.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > dress animals for food [verb (transitive)] > cut up pig or boar
brittenc1400
sidea1450
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of seafood > prepare seafood [verb (transitive)] > cut up or carve > haddock
sidea1450
a1450 Terms Assoc. in PMLA (1936) 51 604 (MED) A lame sydyde.
?1477 in Lydgate’s Horse, Ghoos, & Sheep (Caxton) A Pigge heded & syded..a lambe & kyde shuldred.
1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. fviiv An Haddoke sided.
1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. Av Syde that haddocke.
1677 H. Woolley Compleat Servant-maid 30 In cutting up all small birds it is proper to say mince that Plover... As to the flesh of beasts..break that Deer..side that Haddock [etc.].
1718 Eng. Rogue Reviv'd 18 He cry'd out to the Cook, Barb that Lobster,..Splay that Breme, and Side that Haddock, and so forth, to shew he had some Skill in the Art of Gluttony.
1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 343 The reader will remember, when he puts the slice into a fish, that he gobbets trout..and sides haddocks.
1918 E. L. D. Seymour Farm Knowl. I. xlv. 487/2 Finish siding the beef by taking long strokes from the round to the shoulder and neck.
1985 J. Madson Up on River 213 He swiftly ‘sided’ the fish with a thin-bladed, very sharp knife.
2. transitive. Originally U.S. To provide (a building or other structure) with a side or sides. Cf. sided adj. 2.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > side [verb (transitive)] > furnish with sides
side1682
1682 in Rec. East-Hampton, N.Y. (1887) II. 109 To ye Carpenter..for sideing up the Gable End of ye Meeting house 1-7-0.
1824 E. Cowen Rep. Supreme Court N.-Y. 1 466 They had built a new wharf, and opened the ore bed in a new place, which they had uncapped and sided with timber.
1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 366 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Not a doubt exists of the economy of siding and roofing wooden bridges.
1921 L. E. Roy Natalie iii. 45 The old hand-made shingles are still siding the house.
2013 L. Fichner-Rathus Understanding Art (ed. 10) xi. 221/1 Balloon frames were erected, sided, and roofed.
3. Shipbuilding and Boatbuilding.
a. transitive. To make of specified dimensions at the side; to make with a side or sides of a certain size; (also) to square the sides of (timber).The past participle is sometimes difficult to distinguish from sided adj. 4.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > build or construct with wood [verb (transitive)] > prepare, dress, or square timber
framec1330
square1412
postc1520
timber out1628
slab1703
side1754
to bring forward1823
match1833
underhew1847
to run up1863
1754 M. Murray Treat. Ship-building & Navigation ii. ii. 143 The timber being first properly sided to its breadth, lay the bend mould upon it.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 402/2 The breast hook should also be..sided nine-tenths of the beams of the lower deck.
1826 G. Hawkins On Oak 15 The operation of ‘siding’ or squaring the tree.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 95 They are sided larger than the rest.
1972 Mariner's Mirror 58 263 Many yards preferred to side their timber as heavy as the logs would permit.
†b. intransitive. To have a specified breadth. (With measurement as complement.) Cf. sided adj. 4. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > measure length [verb (intransitive)] > measure (so much) on the side
side1831
1831 H. M. Brackenridge Let. 4 Aug. in Live Oak & Live Oak Agents (1832) 45 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (22nd Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Doc. 178) IV A stick, which, when cut to mould, will not side, as it is expressed, eight inches, is of little use, even for merchant vessels.
1853 C. B. Stuart Naval & Mail Steamers U.S. (ed. 2) App. 173 Abreast the crank hatchway, the half beams will side, 10 inches.
1899 Ann. Rep. Surgeon-Gen. Marine-Hosp. Service U.S. 1898 742 The lodging knees will side 6 inches.
†4. intransitive. To show or present a side of the colour specified. (With colour as complement.) Obsolete. rare.
ΚΠ
1903 W. R. Cattelle Precious Stones 41 Some [diamonds] face up blue, and side yellow.
II. To take sides in a conflict or debate, and related senses.
5.
a. To support one person, group, cause, etc., against another or others in a conflict or debate; to ally oneself; to take or form sides. Also in extended use. Cf. to take sides at side n.1 Phrases 4.Now the usual sense.
(a) intransitive. With with (also in with), against, †in, etc., specifying the person or group supported or opposed, or the side or party formed.
ΚΠ
1585 T. Bilson True Difference Christian Subiection 436 The Bishoppes, Priestes and Monkes presently syded with the Pope against the Prince.
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. ii. viii. 63 They were easily possessed by the first comer, and not curious to side with the better.
1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions App. 338 Those such as are or may be thought to side on his side against you.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iv. ii. 2 The Nobility are vexed, whom we see haue sided In his behalfe. View more context for this quotation
1632 W. Watts Famous Victorie Leipsich 2 in Swedish Discipline If they had openly at first sided in with him [etc.].
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 223 In case the King would not concurre, the people generally sided with the Lords.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 905 Levied to side with warring Winds, and poise Thir lighter wings. View more context for this quotation
1712 A. Pope Rape of Locke ii, in Misc. Poems 370 All side in Parties, and begin th' Attack.
1741 J. Swift Some Free Thoughts upon Present State Affairs 29 in Lett. The equitable Part of those who now side against the Court, will probably be more temperate.
1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women I. i. 32 The partial world is ready to side with them.
1825 Edinb. Rev. 42 479 That power [sc. Prussia] will repent that she ever sided with Barbarism, Obscurancy, and Despotism.
1837 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. 22 i. 39 All who sided in his rebellion..were to be punished.
1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues III. 327 There are few modern readers who do not side with Protagoras, rather than with Socrates.
1928 Daily Express 10 Oct. 6 ‘What can I do?’ protested the shivering man. ‘I get it in the neck either way.’ ‘Not if you side in with us.’
1988 J. MacArthur Matthew 16–23 106 Children often rebel against their parents' beliefs and moral standards as well, siding against them on virtually every issue.
2011 M. Sullivan Corporate Tax Reform xi. 115 State legislators cannot seem to make up their minds who to side with.
(b) intransitive. Without construction. Somewhat rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > be at the side or adjoin at the side [verb (intransitive)]
flank1604
side1609
society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > join or form a party or take sides [verb (intransitive)]
to stand in1555
to fall ina1568
partialize1592
side1609
party1656
to take (also hold) sides1700
(to be) on a person's, the other side of the fence1852
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxviii. x. 342 About the successe and event whereof [sc. of the prize], a number of them..side and wish favourably divers wayes.
a1658 J. Cleveland Rustick Rampant in Wks. (1687) 450 Many of these unhappy Men were awed to side, without either Malice to his Person or Power.
1694 Bp. G. Burnet Four Disc. Ep. Ded. p. iv Some years ago, during the Debates concerning the Exclusion, we sided so openly, and with a Zeal that shewed it self on all occasions..yet now..we seem to let all Parties fight it out the best they can.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 31 Oct. 2/1 Children..differ so much from one another, and ‘side’ so unexpectedly, that [etc.].
1910 A. A. Milne Day's Play i. iii. 14 I didn't side. I simply said that anybody could beat Thomas.
2012 A. E. Constantino Freedom to be Yourself ii. 20 When we are ‘siding’, this is called identification.
b. transitive (reflexive) in same sense. Frequently with with.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > side with [verb (transitive)]
to take (a) part witha1470
to hold sides1490
to take the part ofc1500
partake1546
follow1548
side1585
party1587
part1669
society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > take sides or join a party [verb (reflexive)]
side1585
range1874
the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > support or encourage [verb (transitive)] > take someone's side or side with
favoura1375
to stand with ——1384
takec1400
to take (a) part witha1470
to hold sides1490
to take the part ofc1500
to stick with ——1523
partake1546
follow1548
to join issue1551
to make with ——1559
favourize1585
side1585
party1587
to take in1597
part1669
to fall in1709
to take for ——1770
to take up for1824
range1874
1585 T. Bilson True Difference Christian Subiection To Rdr. sig. Aviiiv Their running to Rome, & siding themselues with the Pope as Christs Vicar generall against their Prince.
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. ii. 60 The prouince of Narbon, which had sided itselfe and sworne to Vitellius.
a1600 R. Hooker Answere Supplic. W. Travers (1612) 8 That I am..one which refuse to be at peace with such as embrace the truth, & side my selfe with men sinisterly affected therevnto.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 299 Kings had need beware, how they Side themselues, and make themselues as of a Faction or Partie.
1680 in Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. (1911) 45 242 Halt not between two opinions. Side yourselfe and com out.
1825 E. Taylor Lays of Minnesingers 200 He draws a poetic comparison between the merits and pretensions of the two candidates, siding himself with Frederic.
1901 Universal & Ludgate Mag. July 296 They side themselves with the light blue or the dark blue, just as their friends belong to a particular university.
1918 Daily Chron. 19 July in Press Rev. (U. S. Army Amer. Expeditionary Forces) 23 July 3/2 Siding themselves with the Czecho-Slovaks, the American-Japanese forces would express the sympathy and consolidation of the Allies with Slavic aspirations.
2001 J. V. Heuvel German Life in Age of Revol. i. 24 Clemens was less timid about siding himself with the counterrevolution.
†6. transitive. To support, take the side of (a person or group). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > support or encourage [verb (transitive)]
shoveOE
to hold with (arch. of, on, for)1154
favour1362
abetc1380
sustainc1390
supportc1405
courage1470
comfort1481
friend1550
through-bear1554
countenance1568
foster1569
favourize1585
seconda1586
sidea1601
rally1624
feed1626
countenance1654
encourage1668
inserve1683
to go strong on1822
partake1861
sponsor1884
to hold a brief for1888
root1889
rah-rah1940
affirm1970
babysit1973
barrack-
a1601 W. Lambarde Archion (1635) 205 The Offenders..were by-like so brested, sided, and backed with a many friends, Tenants, and followers.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. i. 191 [They] side factions, & giue out Coniecturall Marriages, making parties strong. View more context for this quotation
a1625 J. Fletcher Chances i. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Aaav/1 Let it raise wild-fires,..Yet I must through; if yee dare side me.
†7. transitive. To assign (something) to one of two sides or parties. Obsolete. rare.Malone (1780) and numerous subsequent editions of Shakespeare alter side in quot. 1609 to 'cide (‘decide’).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > distribute or deal out [verb (transitive)] > assign or allot > to one of two parties
side1609
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xlvi. sig. D2v To side this title is impannelled A quest of thoughts, all tennants to the heart. View more context for this quotation
III. To be at, move to, or put to the side, and related senses.
8.
a. transitive. To be situated or positioned to or at the side of, or (with plural subject) on either side of; to walk or stand by the side of; to flank. Now rare.Common in 17th cent.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > distance > nearness > be near to [verb (transitive)] > stand near to
overstandeOE
atstandc1330
side1587
assist1646
the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > side [verb (transitive)] > be in or take up position at the side of > stand or walk at the side of
to stand besidec1440
accost1579
side1587
1587 J. Polemon 2nd Pt. Bk. Battailes sig. C.ivv The Bataillon composed of xvii. Ensignes of French men and Bretons that sided the Suisses, were easely broken.
1606 B. Jonson Hymenaei sig. B2v The Paire, which doe each other side, Though (yet) some space doth them divide.
1613 G. Chapman Memorable Maske Inns of Court sig. A2v Euery one of these horse, had two Moores,..that for state sided them.
1637 T. Heywood Curtaine Lect. xi. 247 Hee went out, and sat upon a bench that sided the street doore.
1698 E. D'Auvergne Hist. Campagne Flanders 1697 38 The Army marched upon the Left (siding the River Mandel which we had upon our Right Flank).
1720 A. Smith Compl. Hist. Lives & Robberies Highway-men (ed. 5) III. 358 Give me Gammon. That is, to side, shoulder, or stand close to a Man, or a Woman, whilst another picks his, or her Pocket.
1796 R. Gough Sepulchral Monuments Great Brit. II. sig. E2 The many chapels that sided the nave and choir both of our principal and parochial churches were receptacles of the dead.
1823 C. Lamb Old Benchers in Elia 194 The terrace is, indeed, left... The old benchers had it almost sacred to themselves... They might not be sided or jostled.
1896 Archaeol. Jrnl. 53 41 The monoliths siding this shrine were pulled down.
1971 L. R. Gribble Alias the Victim x. 163 The man from the embassy..was sided by a pair of companions with shoulder holsters.
†b. transitive. To have (a person) situated on a particular side. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > side [verb (transitive)] > have on the sides > have (one) on that side
side1590
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. ix. sig. Ll5 His blinde eie, that sided Paridell, All his demeasnure from his sight did hide.
†c. transitive. To approach the side of (a person). Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > side [verb (transitive)] > be in or take up position at the side of
cheeka1552
side1600
flank1779
1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xix. lxxvii. 352 He sided there a lustie louely las, And with some courtly tearmes the wench he bords.
†d. intransitive. To keep alongside or close to. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > distance > nearness > be near [verb (intransitive)] > remain close to a person or thing
sidea1641
the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > beside a person
sidea1641
the world > space > distance > nearness > be near to [verb (transitive)] > be in contact with > border on > at one side
sidea1641
a1641 J. Finett Philoxenis (1656) 16 The Savoyard getting the start and siding allwayes close to the Spanish Ambassador.
†e. intransitive. To abut on something at one side. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > distance > nearness > be near [verb (intransitive)] > be adjacent
joinc1325
adjoin1425
marge1494
limit1613
sidea1647
verge1789
abut1826
a1647 T. Habington Surv. Worcs. (Worcs. Hist. Soc.) (1895) I. ii. 201 A plentifull vale..sydinge on Bredon hyll.
†9. figurative.
a. transitive. To rival, equal, match. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > equal, match, or rival
matchc1400
to hold, rarely have, tack with (to)1412
equalize15..
mate1509
touch1530
to hold (a person, etc.) tack (to tack)1555
equal1590
egall1591
countermatch1600
to weigh with (also even with)1600
emulate1602
side1605
compeer1608
pair1619
mount1628
amate1642
to hold weight witha1643
to be (also prove oneself) a match for1712
peel1726
to hold the sticks toa1817
to bear or stand comparison with1845
see1861
tie1888
1605 B. Jonson Sejanus iv. i. 406 Whome hee..Hath rays'd, from excrement, to side the Gods. View more context for this quotation
1634 J. Ford Chron. Hist. Perkin Warbeck i. sig. B4v I am confident Thou wilt proportion all thy thoughts to side Thy equalls, if not equall thy superiors.
1668 Earl of Clarendon Life (1759) I. 53 He had sure read more..than any Man I ever knew, my Lord Falkland only excepted, who I think sided him.
b. transitive with it. To enter into a rivalry with someone. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > compete or rival [verb (intransitive)]
envyc1369
to try (also play, prove, etc.) masteriesa1393
strive?c1450
pingle?a1513
marrow1567
corrive1586
contend1589
tilt1589
to drop vie(s)1599
to prove conclusions1601
to try (a) conclusion1601
rival1608
wage1608
campa1614
vie1615
buzzle1638
side1641
rival1656
urge1691
compete1796
rivalize1800
1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. B4v He soone got to honour, and no sooner there, but hee began to side it with the best, even with the protector.
c. intransitive. colloquial. to side up with: to compare with, be equal to. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > compare [verb (intransitive)] > admit of comparison
parec1450
comparea1500
march1567
to deserve to carry the buckler1642
nick1887
to side up with1895
stack1896
1895 Punch 23 Feb. 87/2 There ain't ne'er a Cockney C.C. as can side-up with Joey the Brum.
†10. transitive with it. Perhaps: to move side by side in a dance. Obsolete. rare.
ΚΠ
1668 G. Etherege She wou'd if she Cou'd v. i. 91 We'll foot it and side it, my pretty little Miss.
11.
a. transitive. English regional (northern), Scottish, and Manx English. To make tidy or orderly; to put in order; to arrange neatly. Also with up. Also intransitive. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > put in (proper) order [verb (transitive)] > put in order or tidy
redeOE
slick1340
redda1500
prepare1585
spruce1594
rid1599
snod1608
to clear up1762
snug1787
ted1811
tidy1821
side1825
fix1832
to pick up1853
mense1859
straighten1867
square1909
neaten1942
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Side-up, to put in order. ‘Side up the house’.
1842 R. Oastler Fleet Papers II. 410 It will be left for me to clean, and ‘side’, and ‘make all right again’.
1847 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 394 I have plenty to employ me, in siding drawers.
1879 E. Waugh Chimney Corner 36 Here, Sally; help me to side this table.
1934 W. W. Gill Manx Dial. ii. 104 Are you goin' to side the house at all to-day?
b. transitive. Originally English regional. To put aside or away; esp. to put away (dishes, etc.) after a meal. Chiefly with away.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > set aside
defer1393
to lay asidec1405
to set aside (on side)1412
side?1840
sidetrack1872
?1840 M. E. Bennett Gipsey Bride xx. 520 As soon as the dinner things had been ‘sided’ away, and the table dragged nearer the open door, [etc.].
1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton I. x. 183 Mrs. Wilson was ‘siding’ the dinner things.
1866 J. T. Staton Rays fro th' Loominary 8 Durn't press me t' have any mooar ox-tail soup... Side it away.
1894 H. Caine Manxman vi. xiv Now side everything away. The medicines too, put them in the cupboard.
1925 C. Holme Things which Belong vi. 86 I sided it [sc. a letter] away, so it wouldn't get lost.
2003 R. Leeson Partners in Crime 74 As I came in through the front door at home Mum was siding away dishes.
12.
a. intransitive. With adverb or prepositional phrase (as up, off, away, towards something, etc.). To move or go sideways or obliquely. Also figurative. Cf. sidle v. 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > move sideways [verb (intransitive)]
side1826
crayfish1900
sidewind1909
side-slip1921
crab1964
1826 Mirror Lit., Amusem., & Instr. 9 Dec. 377/1 I..almost upset Dapper, who had sided off to the open door during my fluttering colloquy.
1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. xv. 106 Gradually siding up towards the lodge.
1843 United Service Mag. Feb. 271 First he came up to the portrait,—then retreated back from it,—now he sided towards it right shoulder forwards.
1879 Expositor 9 117 In living English there is a tendency to let the word ‘holy’ side off and appropriate itself to the designation of right moral character.
1911 W. C. Forbes As to Polo vii. 88 If a player sees his corresponding opponent siding off to another part of the field from that to which the ball would naturally go, he should take up a coign of vantage.
2008 C. Willerth Matter of Honor 223 The boy attempted to mount, but the pony sided away from him.
b. intransitive. Mining. With over. To work a short way in a direction at right angles to the general direction of working, esp. in board-and-pillar work. Now chiefly historical.
ΚΠ
1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 47 Side over, to drive headways course across a pillar of coal, in working the broken.
1861 Trans. North of Eng. Inst. Mining Engineers 9 24 Jenkins..were driven to the rise end of the pillar, the remaining portion of the pillar being taken off by siding over four yards lifts eastward.
1906 H. F. Bulman & R. A. S. Redmayne Colliery Working & Managem. (ed. 2) xi. 180 These pillars were worked by driving one jenkin up the centre for 24 yards, siding-over right and left and taking the end off.
1947 H. S. Elford & M. R. McKeown Coal Mining in Austral. v. 45/2 (caption) Skip road is laid up the ‘bottom side’ of the remaining section of the pillar and a third lift taken by ‘siding over’.
13. intransitive. Nautical. to side out for a bend: to move to one side; (also) to draw a loop towards the opposite end of a cable. Chiefly in imperative. Cf. bend n.4 6a. Now historical and rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [verb (transitive)] > work ropes or cables in specific ways
windc1550
veer1590
veer1604
rousea1625
heave1626
overhaul1626
ease1627
pay1627
reeve1627
unbend1627
to come up1685
overhale1692
to pay away1769
surge1769
render1777
to pay out1793
to round down1793
to set upon ——1793
swig1794
veer1806
snake1815
to side out for a bend1831
rack1841
snub1841
1831 Bell's Life in London 17 Apr. [A set of quadrilles nautically arranged.] Make a stern board to your berth, side out for a bend first to starboard and then to port, make sail.
1833 Fraser's Mag. Aug. 158/2 Scaldings ho!—side out for a bend—and draw the splice!
1836 Naval Mag. Sept. 553 He obtained her fair hand, as did Mr. Grum that of another, and so we sided out for a bend.
1854 Hunt's Yachting Mag. Jan. 14 Side out for a bend, here's a new messmate.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 624 Side out for a bend.., to draw the bight of a hempen cable towards the opposite side.
1989 P. O'Brian Thirteen Gun Salute (1992) x. 302 The invariable cries of nippers, there and light along the messenger and side out for a bend.
†14. transitive. Nautical. To draw or cast (a rope) over the side of a ship or boat. Obsolete. rare.
ΚΠ
1832 F. Marryat Peter Simple in London & Paris Observer 14 Oct. 666/1 ‘Ease off the larboard hawser, Mr. Jenkins, if you please.’—‘Side her over, gentlemen, side her over.’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† sidev.2

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: side n.2
Etymology: < side n.2
British School slang. Obsolete.
intransitive. To act in a conceited or pretentious manner, to show off; = to put on side at side n.2 Also with about.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > pretend to superiority [verb (intransitive)]
to make it goodlyc1325
usurpc1400
to take state upon one1597
to come over ——1600
to gentilize it1607
to state it1625
to give oneself airs1701
to put on airs1715
to mount (also ride) the high horse1782
to put on (the) dog1865
to get (also have) notions1866
to put on side1870
to have a roll on1881
to put (or pile) on lugs1889
side1890
to put on the Ritz1921
1890 R. C. Bosanquet et al. Seven Summers 189 When the Childlike Athlete has forgotten that he is not siding, and that there are plenty of Lower Boys looking on..he is a most estimable fellow.
1906 R. Brooke Let. 4 June (1968) 54 This school-life..calls to me... I play my part with zest, alternately ‘siding’ and ragging.
1909 P. G. Wodehouse Mike v. 26 There's just a chance you might try to side about a bit soon.
1913 A. Lunn Harrovians iii. 47 He waits till he finds him wearing carpet slippers in the yard, and then tells him he's siding.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

† sideadv.1

Forms: Old English–1600s 1800s side, Middle English siddere (comparative), Middle English syd, Middle English sydder (comparative), Middle English syddore (comparative), Middle English synder (comparative; probably transmission error), Middle English–1500s (1700s Scottish) syde.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian sīde (adverb) deep, down (West Frisian syd ), Middle Dutch side (adverb) broad, wide, low, deep (Dutch zijd ), Middle Low German sīde low, Old High German sīto (adverb) slack, loose, Old Swedish siþer , sidher long, low, down, deep, far (Swedish sid ) < the Germanic base of side adj. + a suffix forming adverbs. Compare side adj.With wide and side at sense 1 compare Middle Dutch wide ende side (Dutch wijd en zijd ), West Frisian wiid en syd , Middle Low German wīde unde sīde , Old Swedish sit ok wit (Swedish sitt och vitt , vitt och sitt ). It is unclear whether the following shows the present word or an error for or shortening of aside adv.1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. xiii. 270 A good way side of Jerusalem [L. Longo ab Hierosolymis recessu] lies ope a melancholy Bay.
Obsolete (Scottish or archaic in later use).
1. To a great distance or length; far. Also: to a great extent; widely. Chiefly in wide and side, side and wide: far and wide.Quot. ?1507 is interpreted by some editors as showing the sense ‘boastfully’; cf. side adj. 3a.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > [adverb]
sideOE
highOE
proudlyOE
proudc1384
moodilyc1400
highlya1425
orgulousa1470
strutlyc1480
orgulouslya1500
loftily1548
stoutlya1554
state1579
garishly1593
pridefullya1600
aloft1613
great1625
pridinglya1677
Olympically1839
the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [adverb] > to a distance
sideOE
far forthly1362
far-forthc1470
farlya1500
the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [adverb] > far and wide
in (also on, upon) bredeeOE
sideOE
wide-wherelOE
largea1398
the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [adverb] > on or at one side
sideOE
sidenhand?a1400
sidelings?a1425
sidenhands1440
sideling1543
sideway1561
side hand1577
atoneside1600
aside1610
sideways1673
sidewards1722
OE Cynewulf Elene 277 Heht ða gebeodan burgsittendum þam snoterestum side ond wide geond Iudeas, gumena gehwylcum..on gemot cuman.
OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 959 He weorðode Godes naman..& Godes lof rærde, wide & side.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 10258 Sannt iohaness word. Sprang wide. & side o lande.
a1300 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 69 An ende, ne werie mon so syde, he schal to-dreosen so lef on bouh.
c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1963) l. 2475a Wide and side he somnede ferde.
c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 200 Y..wered ȝou wiþ mi power Wide and side, fer and ner.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 1646 Couaytise, lechuri, and pride, Has spred þis world lang and side.
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 6006 (MED) Þe barouns..seiden hij wolden wiþ hym wende Wide and syde, al to wille, Þat wicked folk forto spille.
?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 46 God wait quhat I think, quhen he so thra spekis And—how it settis him!—so syde to sege of sic materis.
1580 J. Stow Chrons. of Eng. 137 Canutus being very desirous to reuenge the same, prepared a new armie, and came into England against Etheldred with al speede he could, raging wide and side with fire and sword.
1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 490 For the Grecian Colonies were diffused farre and neere, wide and side.
1884 R. F. Burton Bk. Sword Concl. 280 The Phoenicians carried it [sc. the Sword] wide and side over the world then known to man.
2. Towards or on the ground; in a long trailing manner.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > land > ground > [adverb]
sideOE
on (also at, of, in) lowc1225
agroundc1325
in levela1400
upon shorec1400
at-lowa1500
sidelong1667
à terre1922
OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 480 Talotenus prolixius dependunt : oð þa ancleow side [OE Digby side, OE Royal 5 E.xi i. to side] toniþer.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 2513 Þis maide out of chambre com.., side drou hire tail.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. v. l. 193 As a letheren purs lolled his chekes, Wel sydder þan his chyn þei chiueled for elde.
a1475 Friar & Boy (Brogyntyn) in J. O. Halliwell Early Eng. Misc. (1855) 56 (MED) He had not left an holle clowte, Wherwith to hyde hys body abowte; Hys armes heng full syde.
a1500 (c1400) Vision of Tundale (Adv.) (1843) l. 152 (MED) Her tongis honged owt full syde.
c1538 D. Lindsay Minor Poems 575 I think it is ane verray scorne That euery Lady of the land Suld haue hir taill so syde trailland!
a1653 H. Binning Wks. (1842) 654 He..must lift up his garments that hang side and take a lick of every thing by the way.
1793 T. Scott Poems 358 Syde his stockings hang ungarter'd.
1817 J. Walker Poems 101 Though that mine hing somewhat sider.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

† sideadv.2

Forms: late Middle English syde, 1500s–1600s side.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: side n.1
Etymology: < side n.1 Compare earlier side by side adv., side to side adv.
Obsolete.
Adjacent, next to, close by, alongside.
ΚΠ
c1475 tr. C. de Pisan Livre du Corps de Policie (Cambr.) (1977) 109 (MED) The prynces of Rome went evyn syde by theim [Fr. les costioient].
a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 40 (MED) He..wer next his flesche an hard heyre and a breche, syde to hys hommes, of þe same.
1593 M. Sutcliffe Pract., Proc., & Lawes of Armes xii. 174 At Moncontour the Admiral placed first his Reyters, and side by them certaine lances.
1604 R. Hadock tr. R. F. R. Bellarmino Ample Declar. Christian Doctr. iii. 46 Christ..not going aboue his Father, neither remayning vnder him, but resting (as we may say) side by his father, as equal with him in glory & greatnes.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

sideprep.

Brit. /sʌɪd/, U.S. /saɪd/, Scottish English /sʌid/
Forms: 1800s– side, 1800s– 'side.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Partly formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: aside prep.; beside prep.
Etymology: Partly (i) aphetic < aside prep., and partly (ii) shortened < beside prep. Compare sides prep.
Originally Scottish. Later U.S. (chiefly in African-American usage).
Next to, beside.
ΚΠ
1810 R. H. Cromek Remains 51 They gather i' the sun, 'side the green haw-tree.
1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xvi. 204 'Kernel sa, him kept a seat 'side himself sa.
1849 W. Jamie Stray Effusions 2 There sat the smiddie 'side the kirk.
1891 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly Feb. 148/1 He th'owed hisself down 'side de cheer.
1928 E. C. L. Adams Nigger to Nigger iii. 116 He gits 'side he self right now.
c1937 E. Pollard Interview in C. L. Perdue et al. Weevils in Wheat (1976) 232 I'll sit down side de lamb.
1963 Negro Digest Aug. 77 I knelt 'side the trap crying.
2012 E. R. Cienfuegos At Tildy's Thrift xvi. 65 Heah is fresh mets. Fresh killed right side da highway.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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