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south-east, adv., n., and a.|saʊθˈiːst|
[OE. súðéast (see south adv. and east adv.), = WFris. súdeast, MDu. suut- (zuud-), suytoost (Du. zuidoost), OS. sûthôst (MLG. sûtôst), OHG. sund-, suntôst- (G. südost), Da. sydost, Norw. sudaust. Cf. also OF. suest, F. sud-est, Sp. sudeste, Pg. sueste.]
A. adv.
1. a. In the direction lying midway between south and east. Also with modifications, as by east, by south.
c893K. ælfred Oros. i. i. 22 Donua muða þære ea scyt suðeast ut on ðone sæ Euxinus. a1122O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 1097, Se leoma..wæs swiðe lang ᵹeþuht suðeast scinende. 13..K. Alis. 5225 (Laud MS.), Al þat niȝth Hij riden south est riȝth. 14..Sailing Directions (Hakluyt Soc., 1889) 11 Fro Houndeclif fote to Humbre the cours is south est and be south. c1470Henry Wallace ix. 62 Sowthest he saw..Saxten salis arayit all on raw. 1577Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 733/2 Passand southeist as the commoun gait gangis. 1682,a1701[see south adv. 4 c]. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 145 We..stood off to sea, steering still south-east. 1772–84Cook's Voy. (1790) I. 151 We saw the same land south-east by south four leagues distant. 1849Cupples Green Hand xiv. (1856) 143, I held south-east-by-east to the mark.
b. Followed by of.
1548Patten Exped. Scotl. E iij, Vpon this Fauxsyd Bray.., aboute halfe a myle southeast of them. 1771Encycl. Brit. I. 577/1 Bobbio, a town..about twenty⁓eight miles south-east of Pavia. 1834–6Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VIII. 414/2 About four miles South-East of Callington. 1896Baden-Powell Matabele Campaign x, The district east and south-east of Charter.
2. quasi-n. With preps., as at, by, from, to.
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 175 Fram douere in to chestre tilleþ watelinge stret, Fram souþest to þe norþwest. 1600[see south adv. 4 b]. 1707J. Chamberlayne Pres. St. Gt. Brit. (1710) 345 It is faced all round with a steep Rock, except a Bay at South-East. 1789J. Williams Min. Kingd. I. 102 The bearing of course must be in a line from north⁓west to south-east. 1868Chambers's Encycl. X. 214/1 Similarly, in the southern tropic, the wind will blow from south-east to north-west. 1879Geikie in Encycl. Brit. X. 352/2 The variations in thickness from north-west to south-east.
B. n.
1. a. The direction or point of the horizon lying between south and east.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 173 A partie þerof hatte Bulgaria, and haþ in þe est side Mesia, in þe souþ est Histria. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) II. 47 Watlingestreete goenge..from the sowthe este in to the northeweste. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 259 They..folowed the South easte nere vnto a cape of the Iland of Buthuan. 1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iii. v. 134 They call the North Tramontana..; Southeast is by them named Xirocque. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 315 They should have turned off to the south-east. 1806A. Duncan Nelson 61 He made the signal..to..steer to the south-east. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xviii, The shore is rocky, and directly exposed to the southeast.
†b. at the south-east, from the south-east quarter. Obs.—1
1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 212 We met with some very bad weather.., the wind blowing very hard at the south-east.
c. Followed by of.
1778Encycl. Brit. (ed. 2) II. 1275/1 Bornholm, an island..to the south-east of the province of Schonen. 1861Paley æschylus (ed. 2) Supplices 280 note, A tract lying some⁓where to the south or south-east of Europe. 1896Baden-Powell Matabele Campaign xiii, About a hundred miles to the south-east of this.
2. The south-east wind.
1725Pope Odyss. xii. 388 The south-east blust'ring with a dreadful sound.
3. The south-eastern part of a country.
1778Encycl. Brit. (ed. 2) II. 1274/2 The south-east [of Borneo], for many leagues together, is a stinking morass. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. iii. i. i, Gloomy tidings..of Sardinia rising to invade the Southeast. 1968Radio Times 28 Nov. 20/5 A look at some non-broadcast music events taking place in London and the South East. 1972P. Johnson Offshore Islanders iii. 146 There was an enormous bias in favour of the south-east. Clergymen did not want to serve in the wilder and poorer districts of the north and west.
C. adj.
1. a. Lying or situated in or towards, directed to, the south-east.
Cf. the OE. comb. súðéastende.
1548Patten Exped. Scotl. L viij, We pyght our fyeld a prik shot on this syde the toun: being on the southest half. 1577in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 395 In the Sowest warde, Mr. Ewen; in the Sowthwest warde, Mr. William Barton. 1626Bacon Sylva §405 The Planting of Trees warme vpon a Wall, against the South, or South-East Sunne. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Compass, What [has been said] of South-East Amplitudes, holds of North-West Amplitudes. 1820Belzoni Egypt & Nubia iii. 307 Mr. Beechey and myself went in a south-east direction. 1855J. Phillips Man. Geol. 115 Other ramifications run both on the south-east and north-west sides of Snowdonia.
b. With proper names, denoting the south-eastern division of a continent, race, etc., and with ns. and adjs. derived from them.
1893Geogr. Jrnl. Nov. 474 Travel and Adventure in South-east Africa: being the narrative of the last eleven years spent..on the Zambesi. 1909Prospectus (South-East Borneo Rubber Plantations Ltd.) 2 This Company has been formed for the purpose of acquiring and working the Rubber Plantation known as Tanah-Intan..situated in South-East Borneo. 1946F. Owen Campaign in Burma vii. 44 To complete the picture of South-East Asia Command we must reintroduce Lieutenant-General Joseph Stilwell. 1959‘M. Derby’ Tigress ii. 86 Young South-East Asians at play. 1964Whitaker's Almanack 1965 71/1 South-East England Development Proposals. 1968O. Wynd Sumatra Seven Zero v. 57 The South-east Asian male is never turned out burly. 1971H. Trevelyan Worlds Apart xvii. 193 The Deputy Minister in charge of South-East Asian affairs spoke to me..about the responsibilities of the co-chairman for Vietnam.
2. Of the wind, currents, etc.: Blowing or running from the south-east.
Cf. OE. súðanéastanwind.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xi. iii. (1495) 387 That one is Eestwarde and hyghte Nothus the Southeest winde. 1483Cath. Angl. 350/2 Þe Sowthe est wynde, euriaster, nothus. 1565Cooper Thesaurus, Euronotus, a south east wynde. 1611Cotgr., Siroch, a South-east wind. Ibid., Süest, the Southeast wind. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Wind, The North-West Winds succeed the South-East, when the Sun draws near the Tropic of Capricorn. 1868Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. (1869) 153 Prevailing winds southeast, northwest, and northeast. 1898Jrnl. Sch. Geog. (U.S.) Oct. 298 The strong southeast swell produced by the southeast trade. |