Sidelong

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sidelong \Side"long`\, adv. [See {Sideling}, adv.]
     1. Laterally; obliquely; in the direction of the side.
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     2. On the side; as, to lay a thing sidelong.
  


     Note: [See {Sideling}, adv. ] --Evelyn.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sidelong \Side"long`\, a.
     Lateral; oblique; not being directly in front; as, a sidelong
     glance.
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           The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.
                                                    --Goldsmith.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sidelong
       adj 1: (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as
              if with doubt or suspicion or envy; "her eyes with
              their misted askance look"- Elizabeth Bowen; "sidelong
              glances" [syn: {askance}, {askant}, {asquint}, {squint},
               {squint-eyed}, {squinty}]
       2: situated at or extending to the side; "the lateral branches
          of a tree"; "shot out sidelong boughs"- Tennyson [syn: {lateral}]
       3: inclining or directed to one side; "moved downward in a
          sidelong way" - Bram Stoker
       adv 1: on the side; "the plow lay sidelong on the ground"
       2: with the side toward someone or something; "seated sidelong
          to the window"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
       3: to, toward or at one side; "darting eyes looking sidelong
          out of a wizened face" [syn: {sideways}, {obliquely}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  102 Moby Thesaurus words for "sidelong":
     aside, askance, askant, aslant, aslope, asquint, at an angle,
     atilt, away, backhand, backhanded, bevel, beveled, bias, biased,
     broadside, broadside on, canting, careening, circuitous,
     circuitously, covert, crabwise, deflectional, deviant, deviately,
     deviative, devious, deviously, digressive, digressively,
     divagational, divagationally, divergent, divergently, edgeway,
     edgeways, edgewise, excursive, excursively, flanking, glancing,
     glancingly, in juxtaposition, inclinational, inclinatory, inclined,
     inclining, indirect, indirectly, laterad, lateral, laterally,
     leaning, lee, leeward, left-handed, listing, nearby, next-beside,
     oblique, obliquely, on its side, on one side, on the beam,
     on the side, out of plumb, out of square, pitched, raking,
     recumbent, right and left, shelving, shelvy, side, sideling,
     sideward, sidewards, sideway, sideways, sidewise, sidling,
     sinister, sinistral, skirting, slant, slanted, slanting, slantways,
     slantwise, sloped, sloping, surreptitious, tilted, tilting, tipped,
     tipping, tipsy, to one side, to the side, weather, windward