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ˈside-wind
Also side wind, sidewind.
[side n.1]
1. A wind blowing from one side, or on the side of a vessel, etc.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xi. iii. (Bodl. MS.), Wyndes beþ twelue, foure þerof beþ icleped cardinales, chief windes, and .viii. collaterales, syde windes. c1410Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) ii, Þer kynde is for þe moste parte to flee euer in þe wynde, till he be nere ouercome; or at the leste syde wynde so þat it be euer in his nosethrille. 1598[see sideways adv. 2]. 1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iii. xi. 155 The force of the winde continuing still, being a side wind, the Admiralles shippe discovered an opening. 1666Dryden Ann. Mirab. ccxxxvi, One mighty squadron, with a sidewind sped, Through narrow lanes his cumbered fire does haste. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. xiii. I. 434 Orators have celebrated the daring courage of the Romans, who ventured to set sail with a side-wind, and on a stormy day. 1801Strutt Sports & Past. ii. i. 56 He ought also to know how to take the advantage of a side wind. 1858Greener Gunnery 133 A strong side wind was blowing at the time.
b. In figurative contexts.
1611Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girl i. i, With a side winde Must I now saile, else I no hauen can finde. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iii. iii. 157 Some sail to the port of their own praise by a side-wind. 1697Dryden Ded. æneis Ess. (ed. Ker) II. 164 All this while I have been sailing with some side-wind or other toward the point I proposed in the beginning.
2. fig. An indirect means, method, or manner. Chiefly in phr. by a side-wind.
1648C. Walker Hist. Independency i. 119 What they could not carry with a fore-wind, they now brought in againe with a side-wind. 1658–9Burton's Diary (1828) IV. 9 Let us come to a question by a side-wind, rather than by no wind. 1726Swift Gulliver i. v, Others..could not forbear some Expressions, which by a Side-wind reflected on me. 1766Blackstone Comm. II. 117 Acts of parliament have by a sidewind countenanced and established them. 1812Ann. Reg., Gen. Hist. 18 The fact of which excess only came out by a side wind when the bill was brought forward. 1841J. W. Croker in C. Papers 12 Feb., Let the House..pass a distinct law against the practice, but not attempt to do it by a sidewind. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. I. x. 132 This is an attempt to evade and by a sidewind defeat the provision of the Federal Constitution.
3. attrib. as adj. Indirect, oblique; illegitimate.
1680Owen Union among Protestants Wks. 1851 XIV. 521 This jurisdiction, exercised with a side-wind power distinct from the public justice of the nation, is a great cause of weakening. 1702Eng. Theophrastus Pref. 2 Others, by the nipping strokes of a side-wind Satyr, have endeavoured to tickle men out of their Follies. 1812Examiner May 293/1 The sort of side-wind defence which some of his Majesty's Ministers had set up. 1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. xiii. 339 One of those sly, side-wind girds at the French. 1897Trans. Devon Assoc. XXIX. 455 Reginald.., side-wind son of Henry I.
Hence ˈside-winded a., = sense 3; also as adv., by a side-wind, indirectly. rare.
1710New Map Trav. High-Ch. Apostle 4 [He] had written side-winded for the Pagan Pretender's Title. 1825T. Hook Sayings Ser. ii. Sutherl. (Colburn) 19, I discovered..by a side-winded inquiry, that he is..worth more than two hundred thousand pounds. 1833― Parson's Dau. ii. ii, Emma received these side-winded lectures as her father wished. |