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One who takes a side.

Affecting unfavorably by the supposed influence of the stars; baleful. "Sideral blast." Milton.

Planet-struck; blasted. [Obs.]

The state of being siderated, or planet-struck; esp., blast in plants; also, a sudden and apparently causeless stroke of disease, as in apoplexy or paralysis. [Obs.] Ray.

Relating to the stars; starry; astral; as, sidereal astronomy.

the stars, or to the region of the stars; to etherealize. German literature transformed, siderealized, as we see it in Goethe, reckons Winckelmann among its initiators. W. Pater.

Sidereal. [Obs.]

Any plant of the genus Sideritis; ironwort.

Of or pertaining to siderography; executed by engraved plates of steel; as, siderographic art; siderographic impressions.

One skilled in siderography.

The art or practice of steel engraving; especially, the process, invented by Perkins, of multiplying facsimiles of an engraved steel plate by first rolling over it, when hardened, a soft steel cylinder, and then rolling the cylinder, when hardened, over a soft steel plate, which thus becomes a facsimile of the original…

A kind of meteorite. See under Meteorite.

Divination by burning straws on red-hot iron, and noting the manner of their burning. Craig.

An instrument for detecting small quantities of iron in any substance by means of a very delicate combination of magnetic needles.

A sort of pneumonia occuring in iron workers, produced by the inhalation of particles of iron.

An apparatus consisting essentially of a mirror moved by clockwork so as to throw the rays of the sun or a star in a fixed direction; -- a more general term for heliostat.

A genus of tropical sapotaceous trees noted for their very hard wood; ironwood.

A mass of meteoric iron.

areful examination; to thank on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on. I will consider thy testimonies. Ps. cxix. 95. Thenceforth to speculations high or deep I turned my thoughts, and with capacious mind Considered all things visible. Milton.

Worthy of consideration, borne in mind, or attended to. It is considerable, that some urns have had inscriptions on them expressing that the lamps were burning. Bp. Wilkins. Eternity is infinitely the most considerable duration. Tillotson.