A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Side, Syde, v. [e.m.E. side, syde; Sid(e n.] fig. a. tr. To put on one side, separate out; to isolate. b. reflex. To take a particular side (in a dispute, etc.). c. intr. = b above. Also const. with. —a. 1687 J. Renwick & A. Shields Informatory Vindication (1707) 12.
This testimony did more and more side us and set us alone; for … severals who had not formerly so openly opposed, began to express themselves against that handfull —b. 1680 Soc. Ant. XLV 242.
Halt not between two opinions. Side yourselfe and com out 1681 Cloud of Witnesses 102.
[To] make a right choice, and fairly side your selves, and come out from among the tents of the wicked —c. 16… Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. II 392.
Thois who syded on the one and the uthir partis 1638 Baillie I 72.
Galloway syded heere with the Thesaurer 1680 Cloud of Witnesses 47.
I witness my testimony against the pleaders for union, siding, joining, halfing with the usurpers of Christ's crown a1691 Kingston Contin. Ho. Seytown 177.
This Charles … syded with the Covenanters
