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Definitions for: Sidelong
[adv] to toward or at one side; "darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face"
[adv] with the side toward someone or something; "seated sidelong to the window"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
[adv] on the side; "the plow lay sidelong on the ground"
[adj] (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"
[adj] inclining or directed to one side; "moved downward in a sidelong way" - Bram Stoker
[adj] situated at or extending to the side; "the lateral branches of a tree"; "shot out sidelong boughs"- Tennyson
Webster (1913) Definition: Side"long`, adv. [See Sideling, adv.]
1. Laterally; obliquely; in the direction of the side.
2. On the side; as, to lay a thing sidelong.
Note: [See Sideling, adv. ] --Evelyn.
Side"long`, a.
Lateral; oblique; not being directly in front; as, a sidelong
glance.
The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.
--Goldsmith.
Synonyms: askance, askant, asquint, inclined, indirect, lateral, obliquely, side(a), sideways, squint, squint-eyed, squinty
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