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Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class II. Words Relating to Space
Section II. Dimensions
3. Centrical Dimensions
2. Special

236. Laterality.

   NOUN:LATERALITY [rare]; side, flank, quarter, lee; hand; cheek, jowl or jole, wing; profile; temple, paries (pl. parietes), loin, haunch, hip; beam.
  gable, gable-end; broadside; lee side.
  points of the compass; East, sunrise, Orient, Levant; West, Occident, sunset; orientation.
   VERB:FLANK, outflank; sidle; skirt, border, wing; orientate; be on one side &c. adv.
   ADJECTIVE:LATERAL, sidelong; collateral; parietal, flanking, skirting; flanked; sideling.
  many-sided; multilateral, bilateral, trilateral, quadrilateral.
  EASTERN, eastward, east, orient, oriental, auroral or aurorean; Levantine.
  WESTERN, west, westerly, westward, occidental, Hesperian.
   ADVERB:SIDEWAYS or sideway, sidewise, sideling, sidelong; broadside on; on one side, abreast, alongside, beside, aside; by, by the side of; side by side; cheek by jowl (near) [See Nearness]; to windward, to leeward; laterally &c. adj.; right and left; on her beam ends.
   QUOTATION:His cheek the map of days outworn.—Shakespeare