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Webster 1913 Edition

adv.

[OE.

sideling

, fr.

side

side. See

, and cf.

Sidelong; on the side; laterally; also, obliquely; askew.

A fellow nailed up maps . . . some

sideling

, and others upside down.

Swift.

Adj.

Inclining to one side; directed toward one side; sloping; inclined;

as,

sideling

ground

, adv.

Sidewise; with the side foremost; as, to go sideling through a crowd. It may be used as a participle; as, I saw him sideling through the crowd.

Sloping.