side, siid, syde, syyd

& a. [A. S. side =a side; sid =long, extended; cogn. with Dut. zijde; Icel. sidha; Dan. side; Sw. sida; O. H. Ger.sit a; Ger. seite.] A. As substantive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. The broad and long part or surface of any body, as distinguished from the ends, which are of le extent, and may be points; one of the parts of a body that run collaterally, or that, being opposite to each other, are extended in length. 2. The exterior line of anything considered with regard to length; margin, edge, border, verge. "I would you had been by the ship's side." Shakesp.: Winter's Tale , iii. 3. 3. The part of an animal between the hip and the shoulder; one of the opposite parts fortified by the ribs; one of the two parts of the body lying on each side of a plane, pa ing from front to back along the spine. "His brawny sides with hairy bristles armed." Shakesp.: Venus and Adonis, 625. 4. The part of a person on the right hand or the left; hence, used to denote nearne , proximity, or neighborhood. "She, on his left side , craving aid." Shakesp.: Henry VI ., Pt . III ., iii. 1. 5. The part between the top and bottom; a slope, declivity, or ascent, as of a hill. 6. Any part considered in respect to its direction or its situation as regards the points of the compa ; direction, quarter, region. "Toward the south side turned the i ther flete." Robert de Brunne, p. 59. 7. Any outer portion of a thing considered apart from, and yet in relation to the rest; one of two principal parts or surfaces opposed to each other. "The tables were written on both their sides , on the one side and on the other." - Exodus xxxii. 15. 8. A part or position viewed as opposite to or as contrasted with another. "Armado on th' one side , and his page o' t'other." Shakesp.: Love's Labor's Lost , iv. L. 9. A party, faction, interest, or opinion opposed to another. "The Lord is on my side ."- Psalm cxviii. 6. 10. The interest or cause which one maintains against another; a doctrine opposed to another doctrine; a view contradictory of another. "Favor, custom, and at last number, will be on the side of grace."-Sprat. 11. A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another. "Brother by the mother's side ." II. Technically : Shakesp.: King John, i. 1. IMG:content-1426.png:[blocks in formation] 3681 .; also, any of the bounding surfaces of a solid; as, the side of a parallelo-piped or of a prism. 5. Mining (pl.): The hard rock inclosing the vein on both sides. 6. Naut .: The part of a ve el from stem to stern and from the gunwale to the main-wale. Below the latter is the bottom. B. As adjective : 1. Long, large, hanging low, as a dre . (Obsolete except in Scotland.) "A side sweeping gown."-Ben Jonson: New Inn, v. 1. 2 Being, or situated at, or on the side; lateral. "Take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts." -Exodus xii. 7. 3. Being from or toward the side; oblique, indirect. "By a neat side stroke, sent the ball between the posts." -Field , Sept. 4, 1886. *4. Oblique, indirect, not legitimate. (Of immaterial things.) "They presume that the law doth speak with all indif. ferency, that the law hath no side respect to their persons."-Hooker: Eccles. Polity. (1) By the side of : Near to, adjoining, close at hand. (2) Exterior side : [EXTERIOR.] (3) Interior side : Fort.: A line drawn from the center of one bastion to that of the next, or the line of the curtain produced to the two oblique radii in front. (4) Side by side: Close together and abreast. (5) To choose sides: To select parties for competi tion in a game or exercise. (6) To put on side : To a ume an air of undue importance; to be conceited. (A metaphor probably taken from billiards.) (SIDE, 8., II. 1.] "He is one among the few succe ful music-hall people who do not put on side," -Referee, Jan. 16, 1887. side-flap, s. Saddlery : A piece of leather which hangs between the stirrup-strap and the skirting. side-fly, s. Entom.: Gasterophilus equi (?). "From a rough whitish maggot, in the intestinum rectum of horses, the side - Ay proceeds."-Derham: Physico Theology.