[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

sidelong \side"long`\, adv. see sideling, adv.
   1. laterally; obliquely; in the direction of the side.
      1913 webster

   2. on the side; as, to lay a thing sidelong.

   note: see sideling, adv.  --evelyn.
         1913 webster
see also:
sideling 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

sidelong \side"long`\, a.
   lateral; oblique; not being directly in front; as, a sidelong
   glance.
   1913 webster

         the bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.
                                                  --goldsmith.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

sidelong
     adj 1: used especially of glances directed to one side with or as
            if with doubt or suspicion or envy; "her eyes with
            their misted askance look"- elizabeth bowen; "sidelong
            glances" syn: askance, askant, asquint, squint,
             squint-eyed, squinty
     2: situated at or extending to the side; "the lateral branches
        of a tree"; "shot out sidelong boughs"- tennyson syn: lateral
     3: inclining or directed to one side; "moved downward in a
        sidelong way" - bram stoker
     adv 1: on the side; "the plow lay sidelong on the ground"
     2: with the side toward someone or something; "seated sidelong
        to the window"- nathaniel hawthorne
     3: to, toward or at one side; "darting eyes looking sidelong
        out of a wizened face" syn: sideways, obliquely
see also:
askance askant asquint squint squint-eyed squinty 
lateral sideways obliquely 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

102 moby thesaurus words for "sidelong":
   aside, askance, askant, aslant, aslope, asquint, at an angle,
   atilt, away, backhand, backhanded, bevel, beveled, bias, biased,
   broadside, broadside on, canting, careening, circuitous,
   circuitously, covert, crabwise, deflectional, deviant, deviately,
   deviative, devious, deviously, digressive, digressively,
   divagational, divagationally, divergent, divergently, edgeway,
   edgeways, edgewise, excursive, excursively, flanking, glancing,
   glancingly, in juxtaposition, inclinational, inclinatory, inclined,
   inclining, indirect, indirectly, laterad, lateral, laterally,
   leaning, lee, leeward, left-handed, listing, nearby, next-beside,
   oblique, obliquely, on its side, on one side, on the beam,
   on the side, out of plumb, out of square, pitched, raking,
   recumbent, right and left, shelving, shelvy, side, sideling,
   sideward, sidewards, sideway, sideways, sidewise, sidling,
   sinister, sinistral, skirting, slant, slanted, slanting, slantways,
   slantwise, sloped, sloping, surreptitious, tilted, tilting, tipped,
   tipping, tipsy, to one side, to the side, weather, windward

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