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Having (such or so many) sides; -- used in composition; as, one-sided; many-sided.

Having sides inclining inwards, as a ship; -- opposed to wall- sided.

Having iron sides, or very firm sides.

See Lopsided.

See Lopsided.

Leaning to one side because of some defect of structure; as, a lopsided ship. Marryat.

id of figures. Hence, presenting many questions or subjects for consideration; as, a many-sided topic.

ly, or one side prominent; hence, limited to one side; partial; unjust; unfair; as, a one-sided view or statement. "Unguarded and one-sided language." T. Arnold.

Having flat sides; hence, tall, or long and lank. [Colloq. U. S.]

Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three- sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.

Having two sides only; hence, double-faced; hypocritical.

Having sides nearly perpendicular; -- said of certain vessels to distinguish them from those having flaring sides, or sides tumbling home (see under Tumble, v. i.).

e is brigadier general. (b) (Among the Jesuits), one of a select number of fathers, who resided with the general of the order, each of whom had a province or country assigned to his care.

An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.

be, pope in opposition to the pope canonically chosen; esp. applied to those popes who resided at Avignon during the Great Schism.

Native phosphate of lime, occurring usually in six-sided prisms, color often pale green, transparent or translucent.

A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.

rica, many species of which are grown as ornamental plants. The leaves are curiously one- sided, and often exhibit brilliant colors.

A solid consisting of a double twelve-sided pyramid; -- so called because the planes of this form occur on crystals of beryl.

An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut.