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▪ I. ˈsideway, n.
Also side-way.
[side n.1 23. Cf. MDu. sijt-, zijdwech (Du. zijweg), G. seitenweg, Da. sidevej, Sw. sidoväg.]
1. A path or way diverging from, or lying to the side of, a main road; a byway; also fig.
1552Huloet, Bypathes, bywaye, or sydewaye, out of the hyghe waye. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 220 We took a side-way towards the towns. 1832Brewster Nat. Magic ii. 17 In a path or road where there was no side-way by which the figure could escape. 1874L. Carr J. Gwynne I. iii. 69 From this her mind would slant off into a sideway.
2. A (raised) path along the side of a road; a footway. Now U.S. Cf. sidewalk 2.
1738Richardson De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. (ed. 2) III. 319 A Causeway or Walk, well pav'd with flat Freestone, such as the Side-ways in Cheapside and Cornhil. 1852D. G. Mitchell Reveries Bachelor iv. i. vii, Below, dim figures are gathering on the narrow sideways to look at the solemn spectacle. 1886Philadelphia Times 9 Apr. (Cent.), Every inch of roadway,..and every inch of sideway,..was covered by people.
attrib.1804J. Grahame Sabbath (1808) 24 Mark the father 'mid the sideway throng.
▪ II. ˈsideway, adv. and a.
[side n.1]
A. adv. = sideways adv.
1612Peacham Gentl. Exerc. (1634) 33 The beames of the Sunne comming oblikely or sideway. 1715Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) I. 8 The first course being laid the lesser part out-side; the second the length laid side-way. 1776Trial of Nundocomar 21/2 Maha Rajah then looked at me sideway angrily. 1793Smeaton Edystone L. §174 At the distance of a foot sideway it might have got through by piercing the wall alone. c1850Lowell Extreme Unction vi, My snake-turned nature, sunk in slime, Starts sideway with defiant hiss. 1851Hawthorne Ho. Seven Gables vi, The faint gleam..showed the blanched paleness of her cheek, turned sideway towards a corner.
B. adj. Directed or moving towards or from one side; indirect; sidelong.
c1800R. Cumberland J. de Lancaster (1809) I. 274 Paying a side-way compliment to his daughter. 1810Crabbe Borough iii. 322 But there is hope that from these founts may flow A side-way stream, and equal good bestow. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola iv, [He] turned a slow sideway gaze on the stranger. 1883Nonconf. & Independent 20 Dec. 1146/3 A stolen sideway peep into other men's bosoms. |