[Originally repr. ME. sūðsīde, = MDu. suutside, zuutzide (Du. zuidzijde), MLG. sûtsîde, G. südseite, Da. sydside. In later use felt merely as a collocation of SOUTH a. and SIDE sb.1] The side situated in or lying towards the south.

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1338.  R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 59. Toward þe South side turned þei þar flete.

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1387.  Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), V. 297. Andresleg is a greet wode on þe souþ side of Kent.

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1417.  E. E. Wills, 27. As men goth ouer in-to þe church at þe South Syde.

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1480.  [see CHOIR sb. 2].

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1535.  Coverdale, Numb. ii. 10. On the South side shall lye the pauylions … of Ruben.

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1560.  Bible (Genev.), Numb. iii. 29. The families of the sonnes of Kohath shal pitch on the Southside of the Tabernacle.

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1610.  Holland, Camden’s Brit. (1637), 633. On the South side a great part of the Wall standeth.

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1670–1.  Narborough, Jrnl., in Acc. Sev. Late Voy., I. (1694), 39. I went a-shore on the South-side to the peeked Rock.

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1707.  J. Chamberlayne, Pres. St. Gt. Brit. (1710), 460. On the South-side [of Holyrood Palace] lies the Queen’s Park.

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1808.  Scott, in Lockhart (1837), I. i. 12. She was nearly drowned in a pond, or old quarry-hole,… on the south side of the square.

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1896.  Baden-Powell, Matabele Campaign, xvii. 436. Lord Grey’s party shot to northward of the road, and the south side was our preserve.

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  † b.  In const. without of. Also as adv., on the south part; southward. Obs.

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1489.  Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., I. 125. To pas on the suthsyd the watter.

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1726.  in W. Wing, Ann. Steeple Aston, 44. The land heretofore of William Wing southside and John Bates northward.

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