side-slip 5<il7 
2. A division :it the side of the stage of a the- side-transit (s!d'tran"sit), H. A transit-instru- 
ater, where the scenery is slipped off and on. ment having the eyepiece in the axis, with a 
reflecting prism interposed between the eye- 
piece and the objective. See trangit-tMtnt- 
sidesman (sidz'man), n.; fl^gidetmeti (-men). 
[< side's, poss. of sitlti 1 , + man.'] 1. A person 
who takes sides or belongs to a side ; a party- 
man or partizan. [Obsolete or rare.] 
How little leisure would they[divines] find to be the most 
practical sidesmen, of every popular tumult and sedition ! 
Miltnn, Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. 
2. In the <'!i. of Kiiy., an assistant to a church- 
warden; a deputy churchwarden. Sidesmen are 
appointed in large parishes only. The office of sidesman 
III! III. 
side-tree (sld'tre), n. One of the principal or 
lower main pieces of a made mast. Totten. 
side-view (sid'vu), . 1. A view of anything 
as seen from the side. 2. Specifically, in hot., 
of diatoms, that aspect in which the surface of 
the valve is turned toward the observer : same 
as valve-view. 
was a continuation of that of the early synodsman, also mHpwalk fldd'wAkl 11 A footwalk bvtho sidn 
called quatman, a layman whose duty it was to report on SI jewaiK 1,81(1 w aK;, n. A lootwaiK Dy tne side 
niuc w CMIV ^nm iTOOk/f ^ iwuwtiin. uy me 
of a street or road ; specifically, a paved or 
otherwise prepared way for pedestrians in a 
town, usually separated from the roadway by 
a curb and gutter. Also (in Great Britain near- 
ly always) celled pavement. 
the moral condition of the parish and make presentments 
of ecclesiastical offenders to the bishop. 
3. In some parts of Great Britain, an assistant 
or assessor to a public civil officer. 
The Sides-men [of Beaumaris] are assistants merely to 
the town stewards, and similarly appointed. 
Municip. Carp. Report, 1835, p. 2685. 
side-Snipe (sid'snip), . In joinery, a molding 
side-plane. 
side-Space (sid'spas), . On a railway, the Side-Walker (sid'wa'ker), n. A laterigrado 
space left outside of a line of rails. spider ; a spider which walks or moves sidewise 
side-splitting (sld'splif'ing), a. Affecting the or otherwise with apparently equal ease, as 
sides convulsively or with a rending sensation ; Salticus scenicus. See Laterigradx. 
producing the condition in which a person is sideward, sidewards (sid'ward, -wardz), adv. 
said to "hold his sides": as, side-splitting [= G. seitwarts; as sidel + -ward, -wards.] In 
He loved few things better than to look out of the 
arched window, and see a little girl driving her hoop along 
the sidewalk, or school-boys at a game of ball. 
Hawthorne, Seven Gables, xi. 
or from a lateral direction; toward the side; 
sidewise. 
laughter; a side-splitting farce. [Colloq.] 
side-step (sld'step), n. 1. A stepping to one 
side or sidewise. 2. Something to step on in 
going up or down the side or at the side of 
anything. The side-steps of a wooden ship are pieces 
of wood bolted to the side, instead of which in iron ships 
an iron ladder is used. A side-step of a street-car is usu- 
ally a plate of wrought-iron fixed below the level of the 
platform. 
sidestick (sid'stik), n. In printing, a strip of 
wood or metal laid at the side of a form in a 
chase, or of type in a galley, having a taper cor- Sldeway (sid'wa), n. and a. I. n. Lateral space 
responding to that of the quoins driven be- for passage or movement, as by the side of a 
tween it and the chase or galley in locking up. carriageway; a sidewalk. [Rare.] 
When it is requisite only to make a horse go sidewards, 
it will be enough to keep the reins equal in his [the rider's] 
hand, and with the flat of his leg and foot together, and a 
touch upon the shoulder of the horse with the stirrup, to 
make him go sideward either way without either advan- 
cing forward or returning backwards. 
Lord Herbert of Cnerbury, Life (ed. Howells), p. 65. 
Frenzied blasts came to buffet the steamer forward, 
sideward. Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 740. 
side-Stitch (sid'stich), . 
See stitch, n. [Bare.] 
A stitch in the side. 
For this, be sure, to-night thou shall have cramps, 
Side-stitches that shall pen thy breast up. 
Shak., Tempest, 1. 2. 328. 
side-strap (sld'strap), n. In saddlery, a strap 
which passes forward from the breectiing-rings 
to the tug at the back-band. E. H. Knight. 
Side-stroke (sid'strok), . 1. A stroke having 
Every inch of roadway, except the path kept open by 
the police for the Premier's carriage, and every inch of 
sideway, . . . was covered by people. 
hia 
Philadelphia Times, April 9, 1886. 
II. a. Pertaining to lateral movement; mov- 
ing to or along the side. [Bare.] 
This joint leaves the pipe quite free endwise, and also 
allows all necessary sideway freedom. 
The Engineer, LXVIII. 253. 
or giving a side direction, as one made with a sideways, sideway (sid'waz, -wa), adv. Same 
pen upon paper, with a skate upon ice, with a as s ^ ewise - 
i* : ot-ii,; v.n 4- ;j- 1- - UK. But the fair blossom hangs the head 
, , 
bat in striking a ball to one side, or the like. 
2. A stroke given from or upon the side of the 
object struck. Compare English, n., 5. 
The side-stroke [in billiards] is made by striking the ob- 
ject-ball on the side with the point of the cue. 
Encyc. Brit., HI. 676. 
side-table (sid'ta"bl), n. [< ME. syd-table; < 
sidel + table.] A table made to stand near the 
wall of an apartment, especially in a dining- 
room; a table smaller than the dining-table, 
used in many ways in the service of the house- 
hold. 
Pacience and ich weren yput to be mettes, 
And seten by ous selue at a syd-table. 
Piers Plowman (C), xvi. 42. 
I was then so jroung as to be placed at the side-table 
in that large dining-room. 
Sideways, as on a dying bed. 
Milton, Ep. M. of Win. 
The faint gleam . . . showed the blanched paleness of 
her cheek, turned sideway towards a corner. 
Hawthorne, Seven Gables, vi. 
side-wheel (sid'hwel), . and a. 1. n. A 
wheel placed at the side, as of a machine or a 
vehicle; specifically, one of a pair of paddle- 
wheels at the sides of a steam-vessel, as dis- 
tinguished from the single stern-wheel used on 
some steamboats. Side-wheels have been superseded 
on ocean steamships and on many smaller steam-vessels 
by the screw propeller. See cuts under paddle-wheel. 
II. a. Having side- wheels : as, a side-wheel 
steamer. 
A wagon is a side-wheel craft [in whalers' idiom). 
The Century, XL. 509. 
n. A side-wheel 
Lady Holland, Sydney Smith, v. 
Side-taking (sid'ta'king), . [< side^ + taking, side-wheeler (sid'hwe"ler), 
verbal n. of take, t>.] A taking of sides; eii- steamboat, 
gagement with a party. 
What furious sidetakings, what plots, what bloodsheds ! 
Bp. Uatt, Kemains, p. 72. ., .. 
Side-tool (sid'tol), n. In wood-working, any Sld e-whisker (aid hwis"ker), 
tool with a cutting edge at the end and side. 
Such tools are made in pairs, and are called re- 
spectively right-side and left-side toots. 
Side-track (sid'trak), . A short line of rails 
siding 
Sidewinder (sid'wm'der), n. 1. The small 
horned rattler or rattlesnake of the southwest- 
ern parts of the United States, Crotal/is (tEch- 
iiiii/ilii-i/ft) cerastes. It is common in the desert region 
of the (iila and Colorado rivers in Arizona. The supra- 
orbital plate is developed into a little horn over each eye, 
much like those of the African horned viper figured under 
Cerastes, whence the specific (and also the subgeneric) 
name. Compare sidewiper. 
2. A heavy swinging blow from the side, which 
disables an adversary. Webster. 
Side-wings (sid'wingz), . pi. The openings in 
the wings of a theater affording side views of 
the stage. 
It seems as if ceitain actors in some preceding comedy 
of his were standing at the side-icings, and critically watch- 
ing the progress of the after-piece. 
The Atlantic, XL VIII. 402. 
side-wipe (sld'wip), H. An indirect censure. 
IMIiieell. [Prov. Eng.] 
sidewiper (sid'wi"per), n. One of several 
small rattlesnakes, as the massasauga, which 
appear to wriggle sidewise with ease ; a side- 
winder. [Western U. S.] 
sidewise (sid'wlz), adv. [< side* + -wise.] 1. 
Toward one side; in an inclining position: as, 
to hold the head sidewise. 
If they beate spice, the morter must lie side-wise, for 
distinctions sake of the day [the Passover]. 
Pmchas, Pilgrimage, p. 207. 
2. Laterally; on one side: as, the refraction of 
light sidewise. 
Also sideways. 
sidewise (sld'wlz), . [< sidewise, adv.] Di- 
rected or tending to one side ; lateral in course 
or bearing; sideling: as, a sidewise glance ; to 
make a sidewise leap. [Bare or colloq.] 
sidi (se'di), H. [Also siddee, seedy, formerly 
siddie, syddic, seddee; < Hind, suit, < Marathi 
siddhi, lord, master, < Ar. saiyidi, my lord, < 
saiyid, seiyid, lord. Cf. CM?.] 1. In western 
India, an honorific appellation given to African 
Mohammedans. 2. A Moor or African ; a ne- 
gro : so styled in the ports of western India. 
Among the attendants of the Cambar Nabob . . . are 
several Abyssinian and Caffree slaves, called by way of 
courtesy Seddees, or Master. 
J. Forbes, Oriental Memoirs, III. 167. 
Sididae (sid'i-de), n.pl. [NL., < Sida + -idx.~\ 
A family of daphniaceous orcladocerous crusta- 
ceans, typified by the genus Sida, having nata- 
torial antennae with two unequal rami, and the 
intestine simple. 
siding (si'ding), . [Verbal n. of side*, v.] 1 . 
The act of taking sides; the attaching of one's 
self to a party; division into sides or parties. 
[Archaic.] 
Discontents drove men into sidings. Eikmi Basilike. 
As here hath been a faction and siding amongst us now 
more than two years, so now there is an utter breach and 
sequestration amongst us. 
Mass. Hist. Soc., Collections, III. 29. (From Gov. 
[Bradford's Letter Book.) 
2. On railroads, a short additional track placed 
at the side of a main line, and connected at 
one or both ends with the main lines of rails 
by means of switches or points. It serves for ena- 
bling trains to pass each other in opposite directions, for 
withdrawing a slow train to allow a fast train moving in 
the same direction to pass, and for other uses. 
3. The covering or boarding of the sides of 
a frame building, or the material used for 
The Miami, a powerful and very fast side-wheeler, suc- 
ceeded in eluding the Albemarle without receiving a blow 
from her ram. The Century, XXXVI. 426. 
,, n. That part of 
a man's beard which grows on the cheek; a 
whisker: generally in the plural: as, he wore 
side-whiskers, but no beard or mustache. [Col- 
loq.] 
branching off by a switch f romlheWin Z'e Side-winch(sid'wiiich), , A hoisting-appara- 
of a railroad, and either returning to it or not 1 ' f ? - ght wei ? hts ' consisting of a drum ac- 
at the further end, for use in turning out, shift- 
ing rolling-stock, etc. ; a siding. [U. S.] 
side-track (sid'* 1 -'- - " ~ j - 
l by a crank and pinion, the whole 1 
secured to the side of a beam or other support. 
the main line of a railroad to a subsidiary one ; 
shunt. 
When the cars return empty, they are side-tracked at 
the packing house. Sci. Amer., N. S., LX. 115. 
2. Figuratively, to divert to one side; turn 
aside from the proper or the practicable course. 
II. intrans. To pass to a side-track; come 
to rest on a siding. 
One train had side-tracked to await the train from the 
opposite direction. Harper's Hag., LXXVI. 650. 
[U. S. in all uses.] 
353 
one side so that a ship may lay her course. 
Also called beam-iriiii/. 
Wee set salle againe, and sayled West alongst the coast 
with a fresh fide-winde. Hakluyt's Voyages, II. 105 
Taking the advantage of a side-wind, we were driven 
back in a few hours' time as far as Monaco. 
Addison, Remarks on Italy (Works, ed. Bonn, I. 360). 
2. Figuratively, an indirect influence or 
agency; an oblique method or means. 
I am a straightforward man, I believe. I don't go beat- 
ing about for side-mnds. Dickens, Hard Times, ii. 9. 
Siding. 
A, siding of vertically matched boards a, with battens b nailed 
over the vertical joints; B, siding of diagonally arranged matched 
boards/.- f, studs; rf, sheathing of unmatched boards; e, paper 
sheathing; C. clapboard siding, g being rabbeted at the lower mar- 
gins and g simply overlapped ; c, d, t as in B. 
that purpose, as weather-boards, or boards or 
shingles otherwise prepared. 4. The dressing 
of timbers to their correct breadth, as in ship- 
building; also, the timbers so dressed. 
The assorting of the sidings is subjected to the same 
general principles in the matter of qualities and widths. 
U. S. Cons. Rep., No. Ixviii. (1886), p. 597. 
