besides

BESI'DES, preposition Over and above; separate or distinct from.And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine. Genesis 26:1.Note. This word, though radically the same as beside, and a corruption of it, ought not to be confounded with it, for it is never used in the senses explained under beside, except in the second.BESI'DEBESI'DES, adverb Moreover; more than that; over and above; distinct from; not included in the number, or in what has been mentioned.Besides, you know not what is the fate of your friend.The men said to Lot, hast thou here any besides:Ben.19.To all beside, as much an empty shade.An Eugene living, as a Caesar dead.These sentences may be considered as elliptical