† ˈsideness Obs.
[f. side a.]
a. Length. b. Height (of a roof).
| c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xli. (Agnes) 158 God send sic sydnes in hyre hare þat scho wes cled mare ewinely with hare þane with hire clathis in hy. c 1380 Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 62 Þei maken þer abitis myche, boþe in widnesse and sidnesse. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 474 Stepnesse, or sydenesse of a roof, elevacio. 1530 Palsgr. 270/1 Sydenesse, longevr. 1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses E ij, The other contayneth neither length, breadth or sidenes (beeing not past a quarter of a yarde side) wherof some be paved. 1607 Markham Caval. ii. (1617) 258 When you..haue made both the bitt cheekes of an euen sidenesse. |