Also west-side. [WEST a. Cf. WFris., MLG. westside, Du. -zijde, G. -seite.] The side situated in or lying towards the west.
c. 1290. Kenelm, 62, in S. Eng. Leg., 347. Þe bischopriche of Roucestre þat in þe west-side is next.
1340. Hampole, Pr. Consc., 5127. Als þe levenyng out gas in short tyde Fra þe est, and shewes it in þe west syde.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Clerk’s T., 1. Ther is at the West syde of Ytaille … A lusty playne. Ibid. (c. 1391), Astrol., I. § 6. The west side is cleped the left side.
14[?]. Sailing Directions (Hakl. Soc., 1889), 17. On the west side of Milforde.
1503. Surtees Misc. (1890), 30. The utter west syde of his swynstye.
1597. Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot., 211/2. At the west syde of the Blak-tour.
1669. Earl Winchilsea, True Relat. Mt. Etna, 16. The two Torrents of Fire forward … had on the West-side branched it self into several Streams.
1681. in Nairne Peerage Evid. (1874), 6. The west syde of the high way.
1789. S. Shaw, Tour W. Eng., 378. A pleasant little town on the west-side of a hill.
1896. Baden-Powell, Matabele Campaign, iv. On the west side of this road Umlugulu’s impi was stationed when we first began our reconnaissance.
b. transf. (Cf. WESTERN a. 8.)
1829. Marryat, F. Mildmay, xxv. Rubbing herself on her ‘west’ side, as the Philadelphia ladies call it.
