sidelong

4 definitions found

sidelong - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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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  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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sidelong - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  sidelong
      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: sidelong, sideways, obliquely]
      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, sidelong]
      2: situated at or extending to the side; "the lateral branches
         of a tree"; "shot out sidelong boughs"- Tennyson [syn:
         lateral, sidelong]
      3: inclining or directed to one side; "moved downward in a
         sidelong way" - Bram Stoker

sidelong - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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