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the right shoulder, with the lock plate up, and the muzzle elevated and inclined to the left, and held as in the illustration.

A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.

The right or left part of the wall or trunk of the body; as, a pain in the side. One of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side. John xix. 34.

gures which remain to any number, or decimal fraction, after the ciphers at the right or left are canceled. Thus, the significant figures of 25,000, or of .0025, are 25.

On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; -- opposed to dexter, or right. "Here on his sinister cheek." Shak. My mother's blood Runs on the dexter cheek, and this sinister Bounds in my father's Shak.

Left-handed; hence, unlucky. [Obs.] Lovelace.

Toward the left side; sinistrally.

Of or pertaining to the left, inclining to the left; sinistrous; - - opposed to dextral.

Toward the left; in a sinistral manner. J. Le Conte.

Rising spirally from right to left (of the spectator); sinistrorse.

Turning to the left (of the spectator) in the ascending line; - - the opposite of dextrorse. See Dextrorse.

Being on the left side; inclined to the left; sinistral. "Sinistrous gravity." Sir T. Browne.

With a tendency to use the left hand. Many, in their infancy, are sinistrously disposed, and divers continue all their life left-handed. Sir T. Browne.

being a sister; the office or duty of a sister. She . . . abhorr'd Her proper blood, and left to do the part Of sisterhood, to do that of a wife. Daniel.

'T is good, when you have crossed the sea and back, To find the sitfast acres where you left them. Emerson.

f a sketch; incomplete. The execution is sketchy throughout; the head, in particular, is left in the rough. J. S. Harford.

ing shrilly; a skirl. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Sir W. Scott. When the skirling of the pipes cleft the air his cold eyes softened. Mrs. J. H. Ewing.

A cloud. [Obs.] [A wind] that blew so hideously and high, That it ne lefte not a sky In all the welkin long and broad. Chaucer.

a hill or mountain side; as, a land slide, or a snow slide; also, the track of bare rock left by a land slide.

merly, in Ireland, a kind of servile tenure which subjected the tenant to maintain his chieftain gratuitously whenever he wished to indulge in a revel. Spenser.