adv. and prep. Now rare or Obs. (Also with hyphen, or as two words.) [f. WITHOUT + SIDE sb., after outside.] Opp. to WITHINSIDE or WITHIN A. adv.

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  1.  On the outer side or surface: = OUTSIDE adv. 1 (in part), WITHOUT adv. 1.

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1578.  Lyte, Dodoens, I. v. 11. The roote is … blacke withoutside.

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1668.  H. More, Div. Dial., II. v. (1713), 97. Nor do we our selves grow by being liquored without side, but within.

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1695.  Congreve, Love for L., IV. i. Why does that Lawyer Wear black?—Does he carry his Conscience without side?

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1727–38.  Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Mould, The Moulds … are of wax, supported within-side by what they call a core, and covered without-side with a cap or case.

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1794.  C. Smith, Wand. Warwick, 19. Barricading the cabin door withoutside.

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1849.  Chr. G. Rossetti, Testimony, 20 Poet. Wks. (1904), 119. We build our houses on the sand Comely withoutside and within.

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c. 1850.  [see WITHINSIDE A. 1].

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  2.  In (or to) the place or space without: = OUTSIDE adv. 1 (in part), 2, WITHOUT adv. 2.

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a. 1700.  Evelyn, Diary, 21 Sept. 1644. The Cathedrall,… full of sepulchres without-side.

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1706.  E. Ward, Hud. Rediv. (1707), II. VI. 4. Without side warm, within side merry.

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1710.  Mrs. Centlivre, Marplot, II. Wks. 1760, II. 147. When I came without-side, I saw nobody there.

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1800.  Ann. Reg., Chron., 414. Within this temple is an altar, and without-side, near the entrance, another.

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1831.  Trelawny, Adv. Younger Son, I. xx. 148. A wild shout from without-side.

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  3.  Withoutside of, prep. phr. = outside of, OUTSIDE adv. 3 a.

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1638.  in Collect. Mass. Hist. Soc., Ser. III. VI. 23. Placing the Indians … without side of our soldiers in a ring battalia.

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1711.  in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. V. 169. A very narrow bridge,… without-side of the gate.

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1751.  R. Paltock, P. Wilkins (1884), II. xi. 108. Without-side of these mountains, it was scarce darker than at my arkoe.

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1767.  J. Bush, Hibernia Curiosa, 133. The original of their denomination of White-boys was from the practice of wearing their shirts withoutside of their cloaths, the better to distinguish each other in the night-time.

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1865.  W. G. Palgrave, Arabia, I. 345. All the world withoutside of Nejed.

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  B.  prep. = A. 3, OUTSIDE prep. 1, 2, WITHOUT prep. 1, 1 b.

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1686.  [see WITHINSIDE B. 2].

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1760.  Impostors Detected, I. iv. I. 31. The monk’s sandals which he had left without side the door.

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a. 1774.  Goldsm., Surv. Exp. Philos. (1776), II. 176. Succeeding each other, one without side the other, like circles in disturbed water.

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1809.  A. Henry, Trav., 133. A fire was made without side the cabin, in the open air.

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1831.  T. Hope, Ess. Origin Man, I. 8. Modifications existing withoutside my person.

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