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tables were written on both their sides, on the one side and 
on the other.—The right or left. 
The lovely Thais by his side 
Sat like a blooming eastern bride 
In flow’r of youth, and beauty’s pride. 
Margin ; edge; verge. 
Poor wretch! on stormy seas to lose thy life; 
For now the flowing tide 
Had brought the body nearer to the side. 
Any kind of local aspect. 
They looking back, all the eastern side beheld 
Of Paradise. 
Party; interest; faction; sect. 
Their weapons only 
Seem'd on our side; but for their spiriis and souls, 
This word rebellion, it had froze them up, 
As fish are in a pond. Shakspeare. 
• Any part placed in contradistinction or opposition to 
another. It is used of persons, or propositions respecting 
each other.—There began a sharp and cruel fight, many 
being slain and wounded on both sides. Knolles. —It is 
used to note consanguinity; as, he's cousin by his mother's 
or father's side. 
Yet here and there we grant a gentle bride, 
Whose temper betters by the father’s side , 
Unlike the rest that double human care. 
Fond to relieve, or resolute to share. Parnel. 
' SIDE, adj. Lateral.—Take of the blood, and strike it on 
the two side posts, and on the upper door post of the houses. 
Ex. —Oblique ; indirect.—He not only gives us the full 
prospects, but several unexpected peculiarities, and side 
views, unobserved by any painter but Homer. Pope. —My 
secret enemies could not forbear some expressions, which by 
a side wind reflected on me. Swift. —[pbe, pb, Sax. side, 
Dan.] Long; broad; large; extensive. A northern word. 
—Cloth of gold—set with pearls, down sleeves, side sleeves, 
and skirts round. - Shakspeare. —His branch’d cossock, a 
side sweeping gown. B. Jonson. 
' To SIDE, v. n. To lean on one side.—All rising to great 
place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is 
good to side a man’s self whilst rising, and balance himself 
when placed. Bacon.— To take a party; to engage in a 
faction. 
Vex’d are the nobles who have sided 
In his behalf. Shakspeare. 
.Terms rightly conceived, and notions duly fitted to them, 
require a brain free from all inclination to siding, or affection 
to. opinions for the authors’ sakes, before they be well under¬ 
stood. Digby. 
To SIDE, v. a. To be at the side of; to stand at the 
side of. Unused. 
The pair, which do each other side. 
Though yet some space doth them divide, 
This happy night must both make one. B. Jonson, 
If Clara side him, and will call him friend, 
I would the difference of our bloods were such 
As might with any shift be wip’d away. Beaum. and FI. 
To suit; to pair. Unused. —He [Mr. John Hales] had 
sure read more, and carried more about him in his excellent 
memory, than any man I ever knew, my lord Falkland only 
excepted, who I think sided him. Ld. Clarendon. 
SIDE, Ruins of, situated on a promontory upon the 
coast of Asia Minor. The place is now entirely deserted ; 
but there are considerable remains of its walls, gates, and 
of several temples. But the most remarkable monument 
is the theatre, one of the largest and best preserved of any 
in Asia Minor. It is situated on a gentle declivity, and the 
lower half only has been excavated; the upper being com¬ 
posed of a great structure of masonry. It is shaped like a 
horse-shoe, having an exterior diameter of 409 feet, an area 
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of 125, above which the seats rise to the height of 79 feet. 
It contains 49 rows of seats, 26 below, and 23 above a broad 
platform, which forms a gallery of communication round 
the interior. The seats are of white marble, and admirably 
wrought; they are 16g inches high, and 32f. broad; but as 
they project 8f feet over each other, they leave a clear 
breadth of only 24 inches. It has been calculated that this 
theatre would afford regular seats to 13,370 persons ; while 
those standing or sitting on the steps might raise the audience 
to 15,240. The area is now overgrown with bushes, and 
choaked up with stones and earth; the structure, however, 
is in a very perfect state; few of the seats have been disturb¬ 
ed, and even the stairs are in general passable; but the 
roscenium has suffered considerably, the columns have been 
roken down, the decorations destroyed, and a part only 
of the walls are left standing. There are a great number of 
other ruins, both without and within the walls of Side; but 
they are so covered by thorns and brambles, that they can 
with difficulty be distinguished. There are remains of two 
harbours, formed by large moles; and also of a very exten¬ 
sive aqueduct. Lat. 36. 50. N. long. 31. 30. E. 
SI'DEBOARD, s. A piece of furniture. 
At a stately sideboard by the wine 
That fragrant smell diffus’d. Milton. 
No sideboards then with gilded plate were dress’d, 
No sweating slaves with massive dishes press’d. Dryden. 
SI'DEBOX, s. Enclosed seat on the side of the theatre. 
Why round our coaches crowd the white-lov’d beaus ? 
Why bows the sidebox from its inmost rows ? Pope. 
SI'DEFLY, s. An insect.'—From a rough Whitish 
maggot, in the intestinum rectum of horses, the sidcfly 
proceeds. Derham. 
SIDELING CREEK, a river of the United States, in 
Maryland, which flows on the east side of Sideling moun¬ 
tains, aud runs into the Potomac. 
SIDELING MOUNTAINS, a range of mountains of the 
United States, extending through Huntingdon and Bedford 
counties, Pennsylvania, and Allegany county, Maryland. 
SI'DELONG, adj. Lateral; oblique; not in front; 
not direct. 
She darted from her eyes a sidelong glance. 
Just as she spoke, and, like her words, it flew; 
Seem’d not to beg what she then bid me do. Dryden. 
SI'DELONG, adv. Laterally; obliquely; not in pur- 
suit; not in opposition. 
As if on earth 
Winds under ground, or waters, forcing way, 
Sidelong had push’d a mountain from his seat. 
Half sunk with all his pines. Milton. 
On the side—If it prove too wet, lay your pots sidelong; 
but shade those which blow from the afternoon sun. 
Evelyn. 
S1DENHAM, a parish of England, in Oxfordshire; 2| 
miles east of Tetsworth. 
SI'DER, s. One who joins a party, or engages in a 
faction. Unused. —Such converts—are sure to be beset 
with diverse sorts of adversaries; as the papists, and their 
siders. Sheldon. 
SI'DER. So spelled for Cider. 
Sl'DERAL, (poetice Sid'eral,) adj. Starry; astral. 
The musk gives 
Sure hopes of racy wine, and in its youth, 
Its tender nonage, loads the spreading boughs 
With large and juicy offspring, that defies 
The vernal nippings and cold sideral blasts. Philips. 
SI'DERATED, adj. Blasted; planet-struck.—Parts 
cauterized, gangrenated, siderated, and mortified, become 
black; the radical moisture, or vital sulphur, suffering an 
extinction. Brown. 
SIDERA'TION, s. A sudden mortification, or, as the 
common people call it, a blast; or a sudden deprivation of 
sense, as in an apoplexy. 
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Dryden. 
Dryden. 
Milton. 
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