midsiden.adj.
/ˈmɪdsʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈmɪdˈsaɪd/ A. n.
The middle of the side of something.
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eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) v. xiii. 436 He gelomlice inn ðone stream eode & ðær in sealmsonge & in gebedum stod & fæste awunode hwilum oð midden sidan, hwilum oð ðone sweoran.]
a1300 (c1275) Physiologus (1991) 441 In water ȝe sal stonden, In water to mid-side.
c1300 Body & Soul (Laud Misc. 108) (1889) 59 Forth was brouȝt þere, with a bridel A corsed devel..With a sadel to the midside.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vii. l. 991 Wallace selff at mydsid off the toun With men of armys that was to bargane bown.
1581 N. Burne Disput. Headdis of Relig. in T. G. Law Catholic Tractates (1901) 107 Sua that sence thay are al enterit in the scheipfauld of Christ, nocht be the dur bot be the midsyd of the house, it is [etc.].
1653 T. Barker Art of Angling 16 The Fish may lye to the mid-side in the liquor.
1816 V. Brown Jrnl. in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1916) 11 224 [The horse] Cumberland in the Mill dam..in Mud and Water, Mid sides and Tail covered.
1873 Harper's Mag. Mar. 492/2 The body..is rested gently on the ship's midside.
1983 Buck & Hickman Catal. 1983–5 853/2 Rubber wellington boots. Incorporating reinforced midside and DIN standard toe-cap.
1992 SIAM Jrnl. Numerical Anal. 29 263 Any quadratic polynomial can be represented on S1 by using its values at the three vertices and the three mid-sides of S1.
B. adj. (attributive).
Relating to or lying in the middle of the side of something, esp. a geometrical figure.
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1922 K. Pearson Tables incomplete Γ-function p. x Beside a mid-panel and a mid-point central difference formula when we come to bi-variate functions there will be..a mid-point or mid-side formula.
1978 Math. of Computation 32 729 A nondegenerate quadratic transformation may be obtained by perturbing the midside nodes.
1991 Mech. Engin. Sept. 84/2 The simplest h elements are analyzed only to linear order, but most h codes also offer parabolic elements (with midside nodes).
Compounds
Locative.† midside-deep adj. Obsolete
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1794 T. Wedge Gen. View Agric. Chester 55 The cheese..is then taken and placed midside deep in brine.
1822 J. Fowler Jrnl. 157 We commenced Crossing the Crick Early, it being about mid Side deep to the Horses.
1914 E. Stewart Lett. Woman Homesteader 18 Our horse was midside deep in rabbit brush, a shrub just covered with flowers that look and smell like goldenrod.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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