side bone (sidbon)

1. The hip-bone.-2. An abnormal o ification 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 lamene .-3. The disease or disordered condition in horses which causes the lateral cartilages above the heels to 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. Herrick, An Epithalamie. The town, without siding with any [party), views the combat in suspense. Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, cxiii. 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 clearance 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 Mi Hilton's evening for siding away! Mrs. Gaskell, Ruth, ii. II. trans. 11. 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 la e. Fairfax , tr. of Ta o's Godfrey of Boulogne, xix. 77. 21. 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. It's gude to be syde , but no to be trailing. 2. Far; distant. [Now only Scotch.] MLG. side ), widely, sid , wide: see side2 , a . ] Widely; wide; far. He sende his sonde oueral Burgoynes londe, And wide and side he somnede ferde. Layamon , 1. 4953. And as a letheren purs lolled his chekes, Wel sydder than his chyn the i chiueled for elde. Piers Plowman (B), v. 193.