sided, ppl. a.
(ˈsaɪdɪd)
[f. side n.1 and v.1]
1. a. Having sides; furnished with sides.
| 1486 Bk. St. Albans f iv b, A Grehounde shulde be..Syded lyke a Teme. 1570 Billingsley Euclid xii. prop. 7. 367 Sided Columnes (sometime called prismes) are triple to pyramids, hauing one base and equall heith with them. 1602 J. Davies (Heref.) Mirum in Modum Wks. (Grosart) I. 7 The Head is like a House..Vaulted with Bone, and with Bone likewise sided. 1668–9 Cosin in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) III. 38 A large square area..surrounded or sided with walkes and arched columnes. 1904 N.Y. Sun 7 Aug. 20 The yard is sided with cabins. 1952 Dylan Thomas Coll. Poems 21 The boy she dropped from darkness at her side Into the sided lap of light grew strong. |
b. With qualifying adj. (or adv.) prefixed.
| 14.. in Harrow. Hell Introd. 25 After the fox, [the horse is] prik-eryd, fayr-sided, schorte trottyng. 14.. [see long-sided a.]. 1577 [see deep a. IV. b]. 1660– [see many-sided a.]. 1669 [see four, C. 1 b]. 1674 N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 91 Take we a square body in the world unevenly sided. 1731 W. Halfpenny Perspective 9 To find the Perspective Plan of a Pentagon, or five-sided Figure. 1804 Naval Chron. XII. 161 A French black-sided Cutter. 1871 B. Stewart Heat (ed. 2) §54 The hot water box below was made of zinc, double sided and encased in wood. 1889 Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. i. 15 It..varies..to more than 100 per cent. in high sided vessels. |
2. Naut. Having a (specified) dimension in the direction contrary to that of the moulding.
| 1794 Rigging & Seamanship 10 Sided, the dimensions of any piece contrary to which it is moulded. 1797 Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVII. 398/2 Draw a line in the body plan parallel to the middle line, at a distance equal to the half of what the stem is sided. 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Siding or Sided, the dimensions or size of timber, the contrary way to which the mould side is placed. |
3. Of timber: Dressed upon one or more sides.
| 1865 Navy Dockyard Acc. (Blue Book) 8 The average loss on rough timber is found by experience to be about 50 per cent. and on sided and square timber about 30 per cent. 1880 Lumberman's Gaz. 7 Jan. 28 A floor is made of ‘sided pieces’, or boards smoothed only on one side. |
† 4. Allied to one side or another. Obs. rare.
| 1613 in Birch Crt. & Times Jas. I (1848) I. 287, I do not readily remember all their names, nor how they were sided. 1620 E. Blount Horæ Subs. 142 To take heed, that when factions be sided, his Greatnesse vphold not one faction, to the decay and ruine of the other. |
Hence ˈsidedness, (a) in combs., as many-sidedness, one-sidedness, two-sidedness (q.v.); (b) one-sidedness; lack of symmetry in a superficially symmetrical structure or system.
| 1906 [see polarization 1]. 1970 A. L. Leyninger Biochem. xxvii. 617 (heading) Sidedness of the transport process. 1972 Sci. Amer. Feb. 32/2 Such proteins are evidently located exclusively on only one side of the membrane. This information lends credence to the concept of sidedness in membranes. 1976 Word 1971 XXVII. 240 The above contention finds support from another aspect of human evolution, that is, the sidedness or dominancy in either of the two hemispheres of our brain. |