white-sidedadj.
/ˈwʌɪtsʌɪdᵻd/, U.S. /ˈ(h)waɪtˌsaɪdᵻd/ rare before 19th cent.
Having sides of a white or pale colour; marked with white along the side or flank.
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1588 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 33 To Jane.., one white sided why [sc. heifer]. To Cuthbert Ogle, of Edington, a brown why.
1847 ‘I. Marvel’ Fresh Gleanings 203 The sun is reflected hot from the hot sand, and hotter from the white-sided houses.
1865 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands xiii. 234 That [nest] which is made by the White-sided Hill Star.
1918 National Geographic Mag. May 384/2 A caracara eagle suddenly swooped down upon a young white-sided jack rabbit.
1957 E. C. Jaegar N. Amer. Deserts 206 Inca Dove, The tail is long and white-sided.
1994 R. Hendrickson Happy Trails 8 Antelope jackrabbit, a white-sided jackrabbit (Lepus alleni) common to the Southwest.
Compounds
white-sided dolphin n. either of two dolphins of the genus Lagenorhynchus having conspicuous white sides, L. acutus of the North Atlantic, and L. obliquidens of the North Pacific.
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1847 J. E. Gray & G. R. Gray List Osteol. Specimens Coll. Brit. Mus. 36 The White-sided Bottlenose. Lagenorhynchus leucopleurus. Skeleton. Greenland.]
1866 tr. W. Lilljeborg Synopsis Cetaceous Mammalia Scand. 227 D[elphinus] Acutus, Gray. White-sided Dolphin. The triangular area before the blowers only slightly elevated behind.
1967 G. L. Kooyman in G. A. Llano & W. L. Schmitt Biol. Antarctic Seas III. 241 (table) Pacific white sided dolphin. Lagenorhynchus obliquidens.
2007 N.Y. Times 19 Oct. d8/1 Salmon were jumping out of the calms, white-sided dolphins were playing under the bow.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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