Wayside
['weɪsaɪd] or ['we'saɪd]
Definition
(noun.) edge of a way or road or path; 'flowers along the wayside'.
Editor: Pasquale--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The side of the way; the edge or border of a road or path.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the wayside; as, wayside flowers.
Typist: Shelby
Examples
- Like the seed mentioned in the parable of the sower, some fell on good ground and grew to produce a bountiful harvest, but many withered by the wayside. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside watching: for his heart trembled for the ark of God. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside public-house. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- A great improvement it was called; but Margaret sighed over the old picturesqueness, the old gloom, and the grassy wayside of former days. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant smell of the moist earth. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- On Thursday afternoons (half-holidays) we now took walks, and found still sweeter flowers opening by the wayside, under the hedges. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Love knows nothing of rank or position, and sees beauty in the wayside daisy as well as in the costly hothouse plant. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
Checker: Mara