A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1438-1670
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Sid(e)lingis, adv. and prep. Also: syd(e)ling(i)s. [ME and e.m.E. sydlynges (Manning), sidlings (a1400-50), sidelyngs (c1450), sidelings (1579) (cf. Fris. sydlings, Du. zijdelings). Cf. Sideling adv. and prep., and Sidelangis prep.]
A. adv. 1. a. With a movement to or from the side; sideways, obliquely. Also transf.?1438 Alex. i 2366.
Gaudifere … Leit him sydlingis pas him by 1460 Hay Alex. 1197.
Folk … to supple the wingis … And gif the vangard hapnit weill to speid, Reconfort thame and sidlingis with thame ga 1460 Hay Alex. 1311.
Ȝour … small gunnis [etc.] Sum efterwart sidlingis at thair bak salbe 1460 Hay Alex. 9187.
He … hit him sidlingis on the charnale pyn 1533 Bell. Livy I 161/13.
He was doung sidelingis fra his hors 1533 Bell. Livy I 162/4.
Ȝoung Tarquyne ran him sidlingis throw the body with ane spere 1627 Kellie Pallas Armata 83.
I haue seene many commanders in exercise use this motion without any facing; only mouing sydelings to the hand to which the command is to close 1665–7 Lauder Jrnl. 15.
In one place it [sc. water] would arise uprightly … in another as a feather; in a trid it sould rise sydelingstransf. 1596 Dalr. II 247/15.
Fra that place [sc. Aberdeen] thay returne til Edr sydlinges be Dondei and Falkland
b. Across, athwart; in a crosswise position.1460 Hay Alex. 1404.
Sidlingis on his sadill hang his cors 1460 Hay Alex. 3303.
Syne [be] land sidlingis before the toun He gart ordand sa gret provisioun That na man micht haue ischa or entrie In the toun 1670 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Processes No. 71 (22 Nov.).
That James Aikin at the first strook Glen over the croune and that they both were lying sydlings wpon the breckans
2. Side by side; abreast.1460 Hay Alex. 1991.
Or I ett mette ȝe sall all hingit be On hie gallows sidlingis about the toun c1552 Lynd. Mon. 2913.
Sax cairtis mycht pas, rycht easalie, … Sydlingis, withoute impediment
3. With the side towards, sideways on, (to) something.1557–8 Inverness Rec. I 16.
Ane peace of ane roud of land lyand in the est gait … lyand sydlingis to the said Foull Poull to the vest
B. prep. At or on one side of; along the side of; in a sideways direction (also, from the side) in relation to.1460 Hay Alex. 3181.
The duke … till ane Greik gaue sic ane ramanand Sydlingis the nek quhill his scheild held agane 1460 Hay Alex. 6258.
All about the tempill on the wallis … ane stature of thare god all is And sidlingis all the wall to the durris Of croving kingis and thare sepulturis a1500 Henr. Fab. 1042.
Sydelingis a bank he socht vnto ane syke 1533 Bell. Livy I 216/26.
Ane weyng of hors men come sidlingis the batall of Veanis
