sidewardadv.adj.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cxxvii. f. lxiiii He myghte goo, or Ryde, frowarde or sydewarde, but towarde the Chapell myght he in no wyse atteygne.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xii. sig. Pp5^v He fell side-warde downe.

1629 F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia iii. 144 With that blow, Amphialus last made, his arme had so O'erstrucke it selfe; that sideward to the ground He fell.

1663 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Names & Scantlings Inventions §95 Whether the Deer run forward, sideward, or start backward.

1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ 185 The collateral scenes of those Dialogues are freez'd or ermin'd sideward.

1788 Monthly Rev. 78 App. 614 This Academician..stumbled over some rubbish and fell on his face, but a little sideward.

1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 30 972 Stones far outshooting, or sideward leaving the tee.

1851 R. C. Trench Study of Words ii. §36 The leaps and springs, now forward, now sideward, now upward.

1888 Harper's Mag. Apr. 740 Frenzied blasts came to buffet the steamer forward, sideward.

1936 Thrilling Wonder Stories Dec. 51/2 A panel slides noiselessly sideward, revealing a white screen.

2011 M. Martinez Twin Burials i. 22 Yamazaki shot sideward, slashing at Kaze's mid-section.

?1617 W. Alexander Suppl. Sidney's Arcadia iii. sig. ¶2 Casting a sideward looke on Zelmane, [he] made an imperious signe with a threatning allurement (a disinuiting inuiting of her) to follow.

1666 Duchess of Newcastle Descr. New World 8 The artificial [wind] with a sideward motion did pierce into the bowels of the waves.

?1750 Batchelor Keeper 27 He observed all the sideward fleering Glances that attended her colloguing periods.

1831 D. Lardner Hydrostatics vii. 131 In sailing vessels this sideward inclination is a matter of comparatively slight importance.

1854 Ecclesiologist Aug. 257 We alluded..to the sideward position of the head which Mr. Lough had given to his model of Bishop Broughton's monument.

1878 W. Besant & J. Rice By Celia's Arbour I. xi. 152 A few weeks before, and they were..striding with a sideward lurch after cows.

1901 Royal Mag. 6 142/1 She was looking at the print with sideward head, as she had seen me do.

1938 Mem. Geol. Soc. Amer. 6 84 Heteroaxial symmetry means, therefore, a sideward drag in the course of tectonic flow.

1999 Jrnl. Asian Martial Arts 8 No. 3. 61 The Yamate-ryu includes in its curriculum..a form incorporating forward, backward, and sideward rolls and breakfalls.

1863 W. Aitken Sci. & Pract. Med. (ed. 2) II. iii. 265 Sharp collision among the blood disks, passing from sideward veins into a large vessel.

a1968 C. Woolrich Blues of Lifetime (1991) ii. 64 The other [foot] bent backward behind her, and planted vertically against the sideward part of the doorway.

1999 G. Lutz Semiconductor Radiation Detectors xi. 304 Electrons are pulled towards the bottom, top and sideward surface regions.