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▪ I. south-, prefix1|saʊθ|
Combining form representing south n. or adv., occurring, with the sense ‘to or towards, in or on, the south’, in participial combinations, as south-facing, south-falling, south-following, south-going, south-running, etc.; south-bounded, south-turned, etc.
(a)
1961Times 23 Dec. 3/4 The aspect is right, that is *south-facing. 1978‘J. Bell’ Swan-Song Betrayed ii. 16 Her workroom, small but south-facing.
1632Lithgow Trav. vi. 281 The devalling side of the *South-falling Syon.
1784Phil. Trans. LXXV. 90 The sextuple or *south following set.
1896Westm. Gaz. 2 May 5/2 The *south-going Irish boat express.
1788Phil. Trans. LXXVIII. 372, 13° 17′ from *south-preceding to north-following the meridian.
1819Scott Let. in Lockhart (1837) IV. viii. 244 My Highland piper,..who spent a whole Sunday in selecting twelve stones from twelve *south-running streams.
1876‘Ouida’ Winter City vii, The *south-wintering northern swallows.
(b)
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. ii. iii. Colonies 83 Those Realms *South-bounded round with Sun-burnt Guinne.
1870Morris Earthly Par. III. iv. 296 Exceeding good Its sunny *south-turned slopes are.
2. Also in Comb. with advbs., as south-about adv., by a southerly route; also attrib.; south-away quasi-n., somewhere to the south.
1958Times 20 Dec. 3/3 Bass frequent the coast from Suffolk south-about to Cheshire. 1961Times 24 Nov. 14/6 So it was decided..to send the ship by the south-about route via Cape Horn.
1954J. R. R. Tolkien Fellowship of Ring 16 The folk of the Marish..came..up from south-away.
▪ II. † south- prefix2
[ad. AF. suth-, alteration of OF. suz-, sus-, sous- sous-.]
An element occurring in a few words, as south-bailie, a sub-bailiff; southbarbs, = suburbs; south-bois (see quot.); southcellarer, south-deacon, south-dean, = subcellarer, -deacon, -dean; south-lace, south-lase, a beam of wood (cf. lace n. 4) acting as a support for something. Obs.
The AF. suthbaillif occurs in 1306 in Rolls of Parlt. I. 209/2, and suthvicar about 1400 in Higden (Rolls) IX. 134.
c1325Poem temp. Edw. II (Percy) lxvi, Baylys & *south⁓bailys Under the shireves.
c1450Brut 353 Euery strete & lane yn London & yn þe *sowthbarbez. 1541St. Papers Hen. VIII (1834) III. 322 The late suppressed house of Blak Friers in the southe barbis of the said citie.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey) s.v. Vert, Nether-vert..denotes Under-Woods, and is otherwise call'd *South-bois, or Sub⁓bois.
14..Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 681 Hic succellerarius, a *sowthselerer.
c1400Three Kings Cologne (1886) 152 Þe preest and þe dekene and þe *southdekene þei mete togeder on thre partyes. 1563Foxe A. & M. 65/2 The wise man Pandolph the Popes Southdeacon.
1393Langl. P. Pl. C. iii. 187 Somenours and *southdenes þat supersedeas takeþ.
1374in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) I. 238 Wyndbems, *suchlates [? read suthlaces], Asthelers, Corbels. 1448Ibid. II. 8 The sowthelases and the asshelers shull accord in brede with the sparres. 1449Ibid. 10 All the sowtlases, asshalers, walplatz and jopees. |