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Lateral   /lˈætərəl/   Listen
Lateral

adjective
1.
Situated at or extending to the side.  Synonym: sidelong.  "Shot out sidelong boughs"
2.
Lying away from the median and sagittal plane of a body.
noun
1.
A pass to a receiver upfield from the passer.  Synonym: lateral pass.



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"Lateral" Quotes from Famous Books



... the contest with the enemy, and it also justified the sagacity of Washington, whose words we have quoted on a previous page. Burgoyne's plans were wholly deranged and instead of relying upon lateral excursions to keep the population in alarm and obtain supplies, he was compelled to procure necessaries as best he might. His rear was exposed, and Stark, acting on his line of policy, prepared to place himself so that Burgoyne might be hemmed in and be, as soon after he was, unable ...
— Life And Times Of Washington, Volume 2 • John Frederick Schroeder and Benson John Lossing

... at them, to right and left, as he walked through the long, barn-like building, and took in with other glances the inadequate decorations of the graceless interior. His roving eye caught the lettering over the lateral archways, and with a sort of contemptuous compassion he turned into the ...
— The Coast of Bohemia • William Dean Howells

... arranged with the major domo the work of the day, Valencia appeared on the porch dressed for riding. She was going to see the water turned on to the new ditches from the north lateral. ...
— A Daughter of the Dons - A Story of New Mexico Today • William MacLeod Raine

... remarked, her nerves were too many for her; and every one of them was dancing by the time they reached the hall door. The doctor's flourishes lost not a bit of their angularity from his tall, ungainly figure, and a lantern-jawed face, the lower member of which had now and then a somewhat lateral play when he was speaking, which curiously aided the quaint effect of his words. He ushered his guests into the house, seeming ...
— Queechy, Volume I • Elizabeth Wetherell

... the Cambridge that I knew was sufficiently cool to be bracing, but what was of good import in me flourished in it. The life of the place had its lateral limitations; sometimes its lights failed to detect excellent things that lay beyond it; but upward it opened illimitably. I speak of it frankly because that life as I witnessed it is now almost wholly ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells


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