adv. [f. LATERAL a. + -LY2.] At the side; to or from the side; in a side direction; sideways.

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1561.  Eden, trans. Cortez’ Arte Nauig., I. viii. 10. The inferior parte is moued … laterally.

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1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., IV. i. 181. Pectinals, or such as have their bones made laterally like a comb.

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1694.  W. Holder, On Time, vi. 89. The Days whereof are set Laterally after and against the Columns of [the] Golden Number.

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1797.  Holcroft, trans. Stolberg’s Trav. (ed. 2), III. lxxx. 259. A rope … was fastened laterally to a wall.

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1857.  C. Brontë, Professor, I. x. 160. [She] turned her eye laterally on me.

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1860.  Tyndall, Glac., I. v. 38. The greater portion of it [the water] escaping laterally from the glacier.

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1861.  Hulme, trans. Moquin-Tandon, II. III. iii. 96. The rostrum [of the Crayfish] is dentated laterally.

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1866.  Howells, Venet. Life, 128. They … abandoned the main subject of dispute and took up the quarrel laterally.

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