adv. Obs. exc. dial. [f. ELSE + HOW.
In this and the following compounds of else (exc. ELSEWISE) the stress is variable.]
In some, or any, other way.
1666. J. Smith, Old Age (ed. 2), 64. Immoderate sweatings in hot houses, or elsehow, do cause the same distemper. Ibid. (1752), 146. The sap stirs, though it be not elsehow perceived.
1848. A. B. Evans, Leicestersh. Gloss., s.v., I can’t do it elsehow.
