sb., adv., and prep. [The phrase yon side (YON a., SIDE sb.1) taken as one word: cf. INSIDE, OUTSIDE. Cf. LG. gunsiet, -syts, G. jenseits.] A. sb. The farther side; the other side.
1535. Coverdale, Hos. v. 8. Crie out at Bethauen vpon the yonside of Ben Iamin.
1856. Meredith, Shav. Shagpat, Well of Paravid, 156. The sun … sank on the yonside of the mountain.
1912. Sat. Rev., 1 June, 690/2. The clear visions of the things of the ‘yonside,’ as his Lincolnshire flock love to term the hereafter.
B. adv. On the farther side (of).
1681. W. Robertson, Phraseol. Gen., 1361. Yonside, ab illa regione.
1878–9. Lanier, Street-Cries, How Love looked for Hell, 23. As I rode down, and the River was black, And yonside, lo! an endless wrack.
1901. H. Trench, Deirdre Wed, II. 12. Yonside of Assaroe the swineherd found her.
C. prep. On the farther side of; beyond.
1856. Meredith, Shav. Shagpat, Genie Karaz, 147. A phial full of the waters of Paravid from the wells in the mountain yonside the desert.
