side 
II. ft. 1. Being at or on one side; lateral. 
Take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts 
[better, side-posts). Ex. xii. 7. 
Leave on either side ground enough for diversity of side 
alleys. Bacon, Gardens (ed. 1887). 
2. Being from or toward one side; oblique; in- 
direct; collateral: as, a side vie w ; a side blow; 
a side issue. 
They presume that . . . law hath no side respect to 
their persons. Hooker. 
One mighty squadron, with a side wind sped. 
Dryden, Annus Mirabilis, st. 236. 
It is from side glimpses of things which are not at the 
moment occupying our attention that fresh subjects of 
enquiry arise in scientific investigation. 
Tyndall, Forms of Water, p. 116. 
A side hand t. See hand. Low side window. Same 
as lychnoscope. Side altar. Same as by-altar, 1. Side 
board. See sideboard, 1. Side bone. See side-bone, 1, 
4. Side fillister. See fillister. Side glance, a glance 
to one side ; a sidelong glance. Side issue, a subordi- 
nate issue or concern ; a subject or consideration aside 
from the main issue or from the general course of thought 
or action. 
Any consideration of this aspect of the matter by inter- 
ested persons is likely to be complicated by side-issues. 
If. Y. Med. Jour., XL. 17. 
His successes have been aide-issues of little significance. 
The Academy, Jan. 18, 1890, p. 41. 
Side jointer. See jointer. Side judge. See judge. 
Side lay, in printing, the margin allowed or prescribed 
on the broader end of a sheet to be printed. Side part- 
ner, an equal coadjutor of another in duty or employment ; 
one who acts alongside of or alternately with another in 
the same function, especially in the police. [U. S.] 
The arrest was made by the witness's side partner [a 
policeman], it being his night off. 
New York Evening Post, May 23, 1890. 
Side post, roller, snipe, tackle. See the nouns. Side 
timber, side waver. Same as purlin. side view, an 
oblique view ; a side look. 
side 1 (sld), v. ; pret. and pp. sided, ppr. siding. 
[< sj'rffl, )i.] I. intrans. 1. To take part with, 
or the part of, another or others ; place one's 
self on the same side in action or opinion, as 
against opposition or any adverse force ; con- 
cur actively : commonly followed by with. 
The nobility are vex'd, whom we see have sided 
In his behalf. Shak., Cor., iv. 2. 2. 
May fortune's lilly hand 
Open at your command, 
With all the luckie birds to side 
With the bridegroom and the bride. 
Herrkk, An Epithalaraie. 
The town, without siding with any [party], views the 
combat in suspense. Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, crili. 
2. To take or choose sides; divide on one side 
and the other; separate in opposition. [Rare.] 
Here hath been a faction and siding amongst us now 
more then 2. years. 
Quoted in Bradford's Plymouth Plantation, p. 199. 
All side in parties and begin th' attack. 
Pope, R. of the L., v. 39. 
3. In ship- and boat-building, to have a breadth 
of the amount stated, as a piece of timber: as, 
it Sides 14 inches To side away, to make a clear- 
ance by setting things aside ; put encumbrances out of 
the way, as in arranging a room. [Prov. Eng.] 
Whenever things are mislaid, I know it has been Miss 
Hilton's evening for siding away ! Mrs. Gaskell, Ruth, ii. 
II. trans. If. To be, stand, or move by the 
side of ; have or take position beside ; come 
alongside of. 
Your fancy hath been good, but not your judgment, 
In choice of such to side you. 
Fletcher, Double Marriage, i. 1. 
Euery one of these horse had two Moores, attir'd like 
Indian slaues, that for state sided them. 
Chapman, Masque of Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn. 
He sided there a lusty lovely lasse. 
Fairfax, tr. of Tasso's Godfrey of Boulogne, xix. 77. 
2f. To be on the same side with, physically 
or morally ; be at or on the side of ; hence, to 
countenance or support. 
But his blinde eie, that sided Paridell, 
All his demeasnure from his sight did hide. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. ix. 27. 
My honour'd lord, fortune has made me happy 
To meet with such a man of men to side me. 
Beau, and Fl., Thierry and Theodoret, ii. 3. 
3f. To stand on the same level with ; be equal 
to in position or rank ; keep abreast of ; match ; 
rival. 
Whom he, upon our low and suffering necks, 
Hath raised from excrement to side the gods. 
B. Jonson, Sejanus, iv. 5. 
I am confident 
Thou wilt proportion all thy thoughts to side 
Thy equals, if not equal thy superiors. 
Ford, Perkin Warbeck, i. 2. 
4f. To place or range on a side; determine the 
side or party of. 
Kings had need beware how they side themselves, and 
make themselves as of a faction or party. 
Bacon, Faction (ed. 1887). 
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If there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst 
he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is 
placed. Bacon, Great Place (ed. 1887). 
5. To flatten off a side or sides of (timber) by 
hewing it with a side-ax or broadax, or by 
sawing. 
Frames : Cedar roots, natural crooks of oak, or pieces 
of oak bent after steaming, moulded 2 inches at the keel, 
sided 1J inches, and tapering to 1 j by 1} inches at the gun- 
wale. Tribune Book of Sports, p. 220. 
6. To cut into sides; cut apart and trim the 
sides of, as a slaughtered animal ; also, to carve 
for the table : as, to side a hog. 
Syde that haddocke. Babees Book (E. E. T. 8.), p. 265. 
7. To push aside. 
The terrace is, indeed, left, which we used to call the 
parade ; but the traces are passed away of the footsteps 
which made its pavement awful ! . . . The old benchers 
had it almost sacred to themselves. . . . They might not 
be sided or jostled. Their air and dress asseited the 
parade. You left wide spaces betwixt you when you 
passed them. Lamb, Old Benchers of the Inner Temple. 
8. To place at one side; set aside. [Colloq.] 
Mrs. Wilson was tiding the dinner things. 
Mrs. Gaskell, Mary Barton, x. 
side' 2 (sld), a. [Early mod. E. also syde; < ME. 
side, syde, syd, < AS. sid, wide, spacious, = MLG. 
sit, LG. sied, low, = Icel. sithr = Sw. Dan. sid, 
long, hanging down; cf. side 1 , n.] 1. Wide; 
large; long; far-reaching. [Now only North. 
Eng. and Scotch.] 
AH Auffrike & Europe are vnder there power, 
Sittyn to bom subiecte, & mony syde londes. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2265. 
[A gown] set with pearls, down sleeves, side sleeves, and 
skirts, round underborne with a bluish tinsel. 
Shak., Much Ado, iii. 4. 21. 
I will not wear the short clothes, 
But I will wear the side. 
Earl Richard (Child's Ballads, iii. 273). 
It 's gude to be syde, but no to be trailing. Jamieson. 
2. Far; distant. [Now only Scotch.] 
Side' 2 t (sid), adv. [< ME. side, syde, < AS. side (= 
MLG. side), widely, < sid, wide: see side'l, .] 
Widely; wide; far. 
He sende his sonde oueral Burgoynes londe, 
And wide and side he somnede ferde. 
Layamon, L 4963. 
And as a letheren purs lolled his chekes, 
Wei sydder than his chyn thei cbiueled for elde. 
Piers Plowman (B), v. 193. 
side-arms (sid'armz), n.pl. Weapons carried 
by the side or at the belt, in contradistinction 
to musket, lance, etc. : especially applied to 
the swords of officers, which they are sometimes 
allowed to retain in the case of a capitulation, 
when other arms are surrendered to the victor. 
The gunners in this battery were not allowed side-arms. 
The Century, XXXVI. 103. 
side-ax (sid'aks), n. An ax so made as to guard 
the hand which holds it from the danger of 
striking the wood which is to be hewed, as by 
having the bevel of the head all one side, or by 
having a bend in the handle, or in both ways : 
the broadax is usually of this character. 
side-bar (sid'bar), . 1. In carriages: (a) A lon- 
gitudinal side-piece, especially in a military 
traveling forge or a battery-wagon. (6) One 
of two elastic wooden bars placed one on each 
side of the body of some forms of light wagon 
or buggy to connect it with the gearing and to 
serve both as a support and as a spring. The 
device gives the vehicle a motion sidewise in place of 
the pitching motion of a buggy with ordinary springs. It 
is of American origin, and gives name to a system of car- 
riage-suspension known as the side-bar suspension. 
Light vehicles of the side-bar description. 
Set. Amer., N. S., LVIII. 91. 
2. In saddlery, one of two plates which unite 
the pommel and cantle of a saddle. E. H, 
Knight, 3. In the Scottish Court of Session, 
the name given to the bar in the outer parlia- 
ment-house, at which the lords ordinary for- 
merly called their hand-rolls. Imp. Diet. 
Side-bar rule, in Eng. law, a common order of court of 
so formal a nature (such as to require a defendant to plead, 
or the sheriff to return a writ) as to be allowed to be entered 
in the records by the clerk or master, on request of the 
attorney, etc., without formal application at bar in open 
court. 
side-beam (sid'bem), . In marine engin., either 
of the working-beams of a side-beam engine. 
Side-beam marine engine, a steam-engine having 
working-beams low down on both sides of the cylinder, 
and connecting-rods extending upward to the crank-shaft 
above. 
sideboard (sid'bord), . [< ME. syde bordc, 
nyde burde, sidbord; < side*- + board.] 1. A 
side-table, as an additional dining-table ; later, 
a more elaborate form of side-table, having the 
cupboard for plate combined with it. The mod- 
ern sideboard usually contains one or more small closets, 
side-cutting 
several drawers, and a number of shelves, in addition to 
the broad top, which is usually of a convenient height from 
the floor for receiving articles in immediate use in the ser- 
vice of the table. .Sideboards are often fixed permanently, 
and form an important part of the decoration of the din- 
ing-room. 
Thise were digt on the des, & derworthly serued, 
& sithen mony siker segge at the sidbordez. 
Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 115. 
Pacience and I were put to be macches, 
And seten by owre seme at a syde-borde. 
Piers Plowman (B), xiii. :;. 
No side-boards then with gilded Plate were dress'd. 
Congreve, tr. of Juvenal's Satires, xi. 
He who has a splendid sideboard should have an iron 
chest with a double lock upon it, and should hold in re- 
serve a greater part than he displays. 
Landor, Imag. Convers., Southey and Porson, i. 
2. A board forming a side, Or part of a side, of 
something. Specifically (a) One of the additional 
boards sometimes placed on the side of a wagon to en- 
large its capacity. 
The sideboards were put up, and these were so adjusted 
that when they were on the wagon the inclosing sides 
were rendered level at the top and capable of holding 
nearly double the load contained without the boards. 
J. Eggleston, The Graysons, xxxiii. 
(6) A vertical board forming the side of a carpenters' 
bench next to the workman, containing holes for the in- 
sertion of pins to hold one end of a piece of work while 
the other end is held by the bench-screw or clamp, (c) 
Same as lee-board. 
3. pi. (a) Standing shirt-collars. (6) Side- 
whiskers. [Slang in both uses.] Pedestal side- 
board, a sideboard of which the upper horizontal part, 
forming the slab or table, rests upon apparently solid up- 
rights, usually cupboards, instead of light and thin legs. 
Compare pedestal table, under table. 
side-bone (sid'bon), . 1. The hip-bone. 2. 
An abnormal ossification of the lateral elastic 
cartilage in a horse's foot. Side-bones occur 
chiefly in the fore feet of draft-horses, and are 
an occasional cause of lameness. 3. The dis- 
ease or disordered condition in horses which 
causes the lateral cartilages above the heels to 
ossify. See the quotation under ring-bone. 4. 
In carving, either half, right or left, of the pel- 
vis of a fowl, without the sacrarium ; the hip- 
bone or haunch-bone, consisting of the coa- 
lesced ilium, ischium, and pubis, easily sepa- 
rated from the backbone. The so-called "second 
joint " of carvers is articulated at the hip-joint with the 
side-bone. The meat on the outside of the side-bone in- 
cludes the piece called the oyster, and the concavity of the 
bone holds a dark mass of flesh (the kidney). See cuts 
under sacrarium. 
side-box (sld'boks), n. A box or inclosed com- 
partment on the side of the stage in a theater. 
Why round our coaches crowd the white-gloved beaux? 
Why bows the side-box from its inmost rows? 
Pope, R. of the L., v. 14. 
side-boy (sid'boi), n. One of a number of boys 
on board a man-of-war appointed to attend at 
the gangway and hand the man-ropes to an 
officer entering or leaving the ship. 
side-chain (sid'chan), n. In locomotive engines, 
one of the chains fixed to the sides of the ten- 
der and engine for safety, should the central 
drag-bar give way. 
side-chapel (sid'chap"el), w. A chapel in an 
aisle or at the side of a church. 
In this cathedral of Dante's there are side-chapels, as is 
fit, with altars to all Christian virtues and perfections. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 101. 
side-coatst (sid'kots), . pi. [< side^ + coat 2 .] 
The long trailing clothes worn by very young 
infants. 
How he played at blow-point with Jupiter, when he 
was in his side-coats. A. Brewer, Lingua, iii. 2. 
side-comb (sid'kom), . A comb used in a 
woman's head-dress to retain a curl or lock on 
the side of the head, usually in front of the 
ear : before 1850 such combs, generally of thin 
tortoise-shell, were in common use. 
An inch-wide stripe of black hair was combed each way 
over her forehead, and rolled up on her temples in what, 
years and years ago, used to be called most appropriately 
"flat curls" these fastened with long horn side-combs. 
Mrs. Whitney, Leslie Goldthwaite, vii. 
side-COUSin (sid'kuz"n), n. One distantly or 
indirectly related to another ; a remote or pu- 
tative cousin. 
Here 's little Dickon, and little Robin, and little Jenny 
though she 's but a side-cousin and all on our knees. 
Tennyson, Queen Mary, ii. 3. 
side-cover (sid'kuv*er), . In entom., same as 
fjripleura, 3. 
Side-cutting (sid'kut'ing), n. In civil etigin. : 
(a) An excavation made along the side of a 
canal or railroad in order to obtain material to 
form an embankment. (6) The formation of a 
road or canal along the side of a slope, where, 
the center of the work being nearly on the sur- 
face, the ground requires to be cut only on the 
