Dictionary entry

Besides

Webster's Dictionary 1913

{ Be‐sides″ (�), Be‐side″ (�), } adv. [OE. Same as beside, prep.; the ending -s is an adverbial one, prop. a genitive sign.] 1. On one side. Chaucer. Shak.

2. More than that; over and above; not included in the number, or in what has been mentioned; moreover; in addition.

The men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides?

Gen. xix. 12.

To all beside, as much an empty shade,

An Eugene living, as a Cæsar dead.

Pope.

☞ These sentences may be considered as elliptical.