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Webster 1913 Edition


Besides

Be-sides

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p
rep.
Over and above; separate or distinct from; in addition to; other than; else than. See
Beside
, prep., 3, and Syn. under
Beside
.
Besides
your cheer, you shall have sport.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition


Besides

BESI'DES

, prep. Over and above; separate or distinct from.
And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine. Gen.26.
Note. This word, though radically the same as beside, and a corruption of it, ought not to be confounded with it, for it is never used in the senses explained under beside, except in the second.