side-cutting 
upper side to form one half of the work, while 
the material thrown down forms the other half. 
sided (sl'ded), a. [< side 1 + -crf a .] 1. Having 
a side or sides; characterized by a side or sides 
of a specified kind: almost always iu compo- 
sition: as, one-sided; many-sided; chestnut- 
sided (that is, marked with chestnut color on 
the sides). 2. Flattened on one or more sides, 
as by hewing or sawing: said of timber. 
side-dish (sid'dish), . A dish considered as 
subordinate, and not the principal one of the 
service or course ; hence, any dish made some- 
what elaborate with flavorings and sauce, as 
distinguished from a joint, pair of fowls, or 
other substantial dish. 
Affecting aristocratic airs, and giving late dinners with 
enigmatic side-dishes and poisonous port. 
George Eliot, Amos Barton, i. 
" Don't dish up the side-dishes," called out Mugford to 
his cook, in the hearing of his other guests. "Mr. Lyon 
ain't a coming." They dined quite sufficiently without 
the side-dishes, and were perfectly cheerful. 
Thackeray, Philip, xvi. 
side-drum (sid'drum), . A small double- 
headed drum used in military bands for mark- 
ing the rhythm of marching and for giving sig- 
nals. It is suspended at the player's side by a strap hung 
over hia shoulder, and is sounded by strokes from two 
small wooden sticks. It is played only on one head, and 
the other or lower head has rattling or reverberating cat- 
gut or rawhide strings called snares stretched across upon 
it : hence the name snare-drum. The tone is noisy and 
penetrating, almost devoid of genuine musical quality. 
Side-drums are, however, sometimes used in loud orches- 
tral music, either for sharp accents or to suggest military 
scenes. 
side-file (sid'fil), . A file used to trim up the 
outer edges of the cutting-teeth of saws after 
setting. E. H. Knight. 
Side-fin (sid'fin), . The pectoral fin or flipper 
of a seal, or of a whale or other cetacean. 
side-flap (sid'flap), . In a saddle, a leather 
flap which hangs between the stirrup-strap and 
the skirting. E. H. Knight. 
side-fly (sid'fll), . A parasitic dipterous in- 
sect whose larva is a rough whitish maggot iu 
the rectum of the horse ; a bot-fly, apparently 
Gastrophilus equi. 
1 have also seen a rough whitish maggot, above two 
inches within the intestinum rectum of horses. ... I 
never could bring them to perfection, but suspect the 
tide fly proceeds from it. 
Derham, Physico-Theology, vlii. 6, note. 
side-guide (sid'gid), . See guide. 
side-Hatchet (sid'hach"et), n. A hatchet of 
which only one side of the blade is cham- 
fered. 
side-head (sid'hed), n. 1. An auxiliary slide- 
rest on a planing-machine. 2. In printing, a 
heading or a subhead run in at the beginning 
of a paragraph, instead of being made a sepa- 
rate line. See Head, 13. 
side-hill (sid'hil), n. A hillside; an acclivity; 
especially, any rise or slope of ground not too 
steep for cultivation or other use : as, a house 
built on a side-hill; a side-hill farm. The word 
is nearly equivalent to the Scotch brae. [U. S.] 
Side-hill cut, in ertffin., a railroad-cut which is part- 
ly in excavation and partly in embankment. Side-hill 
plow. See plow. 
Side-hook (sld'huk), w. In carp., a piece of 
wood having projections at the ends, used for 
holding a board fast while being operated on 
by the saw or plane. E. H. Knight. 
side-hunt (sid'hunt), n. A competitive hunt, 
in which the participants are divided into 
sides. The game killed is scored according to a fixed 
scale of credits for each kind, and that side wins which 
scores the highest total of credit-marks. [U. S.) 
side-keelson (sid'kel'son), n. In ship-build- 
ing, same as sister keelson (which see, under 
keelson). 
sideless (sid'les), a. [< side 1 + -less.'} Desti- 
tute of sides or side-parts ; completely open at 
the side or sides. A sideless and sleeveless kirtle, 
cote-hardie, or over-tunic was worn in many formsby both 
men and women for nearly two hundred years from the 
early part of the fourteenth century. It left the sides, 
sleeves, and sometimes part of the front of the under-tu- 
nic exposed, and either extended to the feet in a full or a 
partial skirt, or terminated at the knees or the waist. 
It appears also to have been a never-failing usage in 
connection with this fashion of a sideless kirtle to display 
the girdle of the under-tunic, which rested loosely on the 
hips, as it passed under the sideless garment both before 
and behind. Encyc. Brit., VI. 467. 
side-light (sld'lit), n. 1. Light coming from 
the side or in a sidewise manner: as, to take 
a photograph by side-light. Hence 2. An ob- 
lique or incidental illustration or exposition. 
It [a book] throws a valuable side-light upon the charac- 
ter and methods of the Emperor. 
The Nation, XLVII. 458. 
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3. A light or window characterized by its posi- 
tion beside some other feature, as, especially, 
one of the tall narrow windows frequently in- 
troduced on each side of the entrance-door of 
a house. 
The dusty side-lights of the portal. 
Hawthorne, Seven Gables, iv. 
4. A window in the wall of a building, in con- 
tradistinction to a skylight. 5. A plate of 
glass in a frame fitted to an air-port in a ship's 
side, to admit light. 6. A lantern placed at 
the gangway of a man-of-war at night. 7. One 
of the red or green lights carried on the side of 
a vessel under way at night. 
side-line (sid'lin), n. 1. A line pertaining or 
attached to the side of something ; specifical- 
ly, in the plural, lines by which the fore and 
hind feet on the same side of a horse or other 
animal are tied to prevent straying or escape. 
Farrow; Sportsman's Gazetteer. 2. A line or 
course of business aside from or additional to 
one's regular occupation. [Trade cant.] 
Wanted Salesman to carry as a side-line a new line of 
advertisement specialty. 
Sew York Trilmne (adv.), March 9, 1890. 
side-line (sid'lin), v. t. To hobble, as a horse. 
[Western U. S.] 
sideline! (sid'li'ner), . A sidewinder, side- 
wiper, or massasauga. 
sideling (sid'ling), adv. [< ME. sideling, sid- 
ling, sydlyng, sidelinges, sydlyngs (= D. zijdc- 
lings = MLG. sidelinge = MHG. sitelingen, G. 
settlings), < side 1 + -ling 2 . Cf. sidelong, back- 
ling, headlong.] Sidewise ; sidelong ; aslant ; 
laterally; obliquely. 
Prothenor, a pert knight, preset hym ner, 
Set hym a sad dynt sydlyng by-hynd ; 
Vnhorsit hym heturly, er he hede toke. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 7320. 
A fellow nailed up maps in a gentleman's closet, some 
sideling, and others upside down, the better to adjust 
them to the pannels. Swift. 
But go sideling or go straight, Uncas had seen the move- 
ment, and their trail led us on to the broken bush. 
J. F. Cooper, Last of Mohicans, xii. 
sideling (sid'ling), a. and n. [< sideling, adv.] 
1. a. Inclined ; sloping ; having an oblique po- 
sition or motion ; sidelong : as, sideling ground ; 
a sideling approach. 
Some on the stony star-fish ride, . . . 
Some on the sideling soldier-crab. 
J. R. Drake, Culprit Fay, xiii. 
II. n. The slope of a hill ; a line of country 
whose cross-section is inclined or sloping. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
side-lock (sid'lok), . A separate lock of hair 
at the side of the head, formerly sometimes 
worn as a distinguishing mark. 
The wavy sidelock and back hair recall the archaic Greek 
sculptures and vase-paintings. Nature, XXXIX. 128. 
Because he had not reached the throne at the time of 
his death, the monuments represent him as a prince and 
nothing more, still wearing the side-lock of juniority. 
The Century, XXXVIII. 710. 
sidelong (sid'16ng), adv. [A later form of side- 
ling, simulating long 1 ."] 1. Laterally; oblique- 
ly; sidewise; in the direction of the side. 
His frantic chase 
Sidelong he turns, and now 'tis bent 
Right up the rock s tall battlement. 
Scott, Kokeby, ii. 14. 
2. On the side; with the side horizontal. 
[Bare.] 
If it prove too wet, lay your pots sidelong. 
Evelyn, Calendarium Hortense, July. 
Sidelong as they sat recline 
On the soft downy bank damask'd with flowers. 
Milton, P. L., iv. 333. 
sidelong (sid'16ng), a. [< sidelong, adv.] Tend- 
ing or inclining to one side; sloping; having 
a lateral course or direction; hence, indirect; 
one-sided; oblique; devious. 
The reason of the planets' motions in curve lines is the 
attraction of the sun, and an oblique or sidelong impulse. 
Locke. 
He had a dark and sidelong walk. 
Wordsworth, Peter Bell. 
Here was ambition undebased by rivalry, and incapable 
of the sidelong look. Loiaell, Cambridge Thirty Years Ago. 
Place the silo on sidelong ground. 
H. Robinson, Sewage Question, p. 223. 
sidelong (sid'long), v. t. [< sidelong, adv.] To 
fetter, as a preventive from straying or break- 
ing pasture, by chaining a fore and a hind foot 
of the same side together. Halliwell. Com- 
pare side-line. [Yorkshire, Eng.] 
Side-mark (sid'mark), n. The mark or gage 
on a printing-press for the narrower side of 
a sheet, against which the feeder or layer-on 
puts the sheet to be printed. 
sidereal 
side-meat (sid'met), . See side 1 , 11 (b). 
sidenesst(sid'nes),H. [< tide 2 + -ness.] Length. 
Palsgrave. 
side-note (sid'not), n. A note at the side of a 
printed or written page; a marginal note, as 
distinguished from a foot-note. 
Dr. Calvert kindly procured us permission to inspect the 
MS., whereupon the full significance of these fide-notes at 
once appeared. The Academy, Jan. 4, Ih90, p. 11. 
side-piece (sid'pes), . 1. A piece forming a 
side or part of a side, or fixed by the side, of 
something. 2. In entom., a pleurite. 
side-piercing (sid'per'sing), a. Capable of 
piercing the side; hence, affecting severely; 
heart-rending. 
O thou side-piercing sight '. Shak., Lear, iv. 6. 86. 
side-pipe (sid'plp), . In the steam-engine, a 
steam- or exhaust-pipe extending between the 
opposite steam-chests of a cylinder. 
side-plane (sirl'plan), . A plane whose bit is 
presented on the side, used to trim the edges 
of objects which are held upon a shooting-board 
while the plane moves in a race. E. H. Knight. 
side-plate (sid'plat), . 1. The longitudinal 
stick surmounting the posts of a ear-body. Car- 
Builder's Diet. 2. In saddlery, a broad leather 
trace-strap, which reaches back a little beyond 
the point at which it is connected to the breech- 
ing. E. H. Knight. 
side-pond (sid'pond), n. In hydraul. engin., a 
reservoir placed at one side of a canal-lock, at 
a higher level than the bottom, for storing a 
part of the water when the lock is operated. 
Such ponds are usually in pairs, and when used together 
economize a great part of the water needed to pass a boat 
through the lock. 
side-post (sid'post), . See post 1 . 
Sidefl (si'der), n. [< side 1 + -er 1 .] 1. One 
who sides with or takes the side of another, a 
party, or the like ; a partizan. [Rare.] 
Such converts ... are sure to be beset with diverse 
sorts of adversaries, as the papists and their aiders. 
Sheldon, Miracles (1616), Pref. (Latham.) 
2. One living in some special quarter or on 
some special side, as of a city : as, a west-sider. 
Sydney slder, a convict. [Slang, Australia.] 
A Sydney sider, sir, very saucy, insists upon seeing you. 
H. Kingsley, Hillyars and Burtons, xv. 
sider 2 t, An obsolete but more correct spell- 
ing of cider. 
Side-rail (sid'ral), . 1. A short piece of rail 
placed beside a switch as a guide for the wheels 
in passing the switch. 2. A hand-rail on the 
outside of the boiler of a locomotive. 
sideral (sid'e-ral), a. [< OF. sideral, syderal, 
F. sideral, < L. "sideralis, pertaining to a star 
or the stars, < nidus (sider-), a constellation, a 
star.] 1. Relating to the constellations ; side- 
real. [Bare.] 
This would not distinguish his own hypothesis of the 
sideral movements from the self-styled romances of Des- 
cartes. Sir W. Hamilton. 
2. Supposed to be produced by the influence 
of certain constellations ; baleful. [Bare.] 
These changes in the heavens, though slow, produced 
Like change on sea and land : sideral blast, 
Vapor, and mist, and exhalation hot, 
Corrupt and pestilent. Milton, P. L., x. 693. 
The vernal nippings and cold sideral blasts. 
J. Philips, Cider, i. 
sideratedt (sid'e-ra-ted), a. [< L. sideratus, pp. 
of siderari, be planet-struck or sunstruck, in 
ML. be palsied (< sidus (sider-), a heavenly 
body), + -ed 2 .] Blasted, as if by an evil star; 
planet-struck. 
So parts cauterized, gangrenated, siderated, and morti- 
fied become black. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., vi. 12. 
siderationt (sid-e-ra'shon), n. [Formerly also 
syderation; < OF. sideration, syderation, the 
blasting of trees by heat or drought, the blast- 
ing of a part of the body, < L. sideratio(n-), a 
blight or blast produced by the stars or the sun, 
also a group or configuration of stars, < side- 
rari, pp. sideratus, be planet-struck or sun- 
struck: see siderated.] The state of being sid- 
erated ; a blasting, palsy, atrophy, or the like. 
Compare cataplexij. 
The contagious vapour of the very eggs themselves pro- 
dncing a mortification or syderation in the parts of plants 
on which they are laid. Kay, Works of Creation, p. 304. 
siderazote (sid'er-a-zof), n. [< Gr. oifr/poc, iron, 
+ azoic, q. v.] In mineral., a nitride of iron 
occurring as a thin coating over lava at Mount 
Etna : observed by O. Silvestri, and sometimes 
called silrextriti'. 
sidereal (si-de're-al), a. [Formerly also side- 
rial; < L. sidercus '(> It. Sp. Pg. sidereo), < si- 
dus (sider-), a constellation, a star. Cf. sideral.] 
