(intransitive) To look or glance aside.

Past; gone by.

A side report or statement.

An indirect or concealed purpose or design.

A retired place, spot, or situation; somewhere out-of-the-way.

(dated) A leisure hour.

A notebook or memorandum book. / A subordinate book containing notes or jottings to be afterward extended in due form.

Business aside from the main business. / Something secondary or subordinate.

A secondary cause.

(theater) Action carried on aside, commonly in dumb show, while the main action proceeds; action not intended to be observed by some of the persons present.