Lexic.us

Definition of Sidewise

1. Adverb. Toward one side. "A figure moving sidewise in the shadows"

2. Adverb. With one side forward or to the front. "Crabs seeming to walk sidewise"

3. Adverb. From the side; obliquely. "Scenes viewed sidewise"

Definition of Sidewise

1. Adverb. sideways ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sidewise

1. sideways [adv] - See also: sideways

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sidewise

sidewalls sideward sidewards sideway sideways sidewheel sidewheeler sidewheelers sidewheels sidewhiskered

sidewind sidewinded sidewinder sidewinders sidewinding sidewise (current term) sideyard sideyards sidh sidha

sidhas sidhe siding sidings sidle sidle up sidled sidler sidlers sidles

Literary usage of Sidewise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
"Then with an arch laugh sidewise, cleat Mid tears and freaks of pettish misery, And sighing, " I am April," answered she; " I rear the field flowers for my ..."

2. Modern Seamanship by Austin Melvin Knight (1917)
"It does not follow that this is entirely due to the screw current, for we shall find that the factor we arc next to consider—the sidewise pressure of the ..."

3. Guide to the Study of Insects and a Treatise on Those Injurious and by Alpheus Spring Packard (1876)
"... like those of the same genus, moves sidewise and backwards, but it is much more active than T. celer. When pursued by an enemy, like Attus and Epe'ira, ..."

4. Guide to the Study of Insects: And a Treatise on Those Injurious and by Alpheus Spring Packard (1870)
"... like those of the same genus, moves sidewise and backwards, but it is much more active than T. celer. When pursued by an enemy, like Attus and Epei'ra, ..."

5. Guide to the Study of Insects and a Treatise on Those Injurious and by Alpheus Spring Packard (1878)
"... moves sidewise and backwards, but it is much more active than T. celer. When pursued by au enemy, like Attus and Epei'ra, it leaps and hangs by a thread ..."

6. Guide to the Study of Insects, and a Treatise on Those Injurious and by Alpheus Spring Packard (1870)
"... like those of the same genus, moves sidewise and backwards, but it is much more active than T. celer. When pursued by an enemy, like Attus and Epeira, ..."

7. An Exposition of the Swedish Movement-cure ...: Together with a Summary of by George Herbert Taylor (1860)
"Fall-sitting may also be forward, sidewise, backward, or at any intermediate point. ... sidewise-LYING.—Lying upon the right or left side. 4. TRUNK-LYING. ..."

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