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A brick or tile. Knight.

Toward the side; away from the mesial plane; -- opposed to mesiad.

Of or pertaining to the sides; as, the lateral walls of a house; the lateral branches of a tree.

The state or condition of being lateral.

By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.

The church and palace of St. John Lateran, the church being the cathedral church of Rome, and the highest in rank of all churches in the Catholic world.

Inclined to delay; dilatory. [Obs.] "When a man is too latered." Chaucer.

Growing from the stem by the side of a leaf; as, a laterifolious flower.

An argillaceous sandstone, of a red color, and much seamed; -- found in India.

consisting of, containing, or characterized by, laterite; as, lateritic formations.

Like bricks; of the color of red bricks. Lateritious sediment (Med.), a sediment in urine resembling brick dust, observed after the crises of fevers, and at the termination of gouty paroxysms. It usually consists of uric acid or urates with some coloring matter.

An ornamental evergreen shrub (Rhamnus alaternus) belonging to the buckthorns.

A worshiper of the stars. Morley.

A worshiper of books; especially, a worshiper of the Bible; a believer in its verbal inspiration. De Quincey.

Of or pertaining to the two sides of a central area or organ, or of a central axis; as, bilateral symmetry in animals, where there is a similarity of parts on the right and left sides of the body.

State of being bilateral.

Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure. "Collateral light." Shak.

Side by side; by the side. These pulleys . . . placed collaterally. Bp. Wilkins.

The state of being collateral.

One who, or that which, desolates or lays waste. Mede.