Being by the side, side by side, on the side, or side to side. In his bright radiance and collateral light . Must I be comforted, not in his sphere. Collateral pressure is pressure on the side. So we say, collateral circumstances, circumstances which accompany a. principal event.

In genealogy, descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not one from the other; as distinguished from lineal. Lineal descendants proceed one from another in a direct line; collateral relations spring from a common ancestor, but from different branches of that common stirps or stock. Thus the children of brothers are collateral relations, having different fathers, but a common grandfather.

Collateral security, is security for the performance of covenants or the payment of money, besides the principal security.

Running parallel.

Diffused on either side; springing from relations; as, collateral love.

Not direct, or immediate. If by direct or collateral hand.

Concurrent; as, collateral strength.

A collateral relation or kinsman.