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† south-half Obs.
[OE. súðhealf (see south adv. and half n.), = MDu. suuthalf, ON. suðrhálfa, OHG. sund(ar)halba.]
The south side or part; the south. In later use ellipt. as prep.
c893K. ælfred Oros. i. i, Þara landa norþᵹemæro sindon æt ðæm beorᵹum Caucasus, & on suþhealfe se Reada Sæ. a1122O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 1016, [Hie] dulfon þa ane mycele dic on ða suðhealfe. c1205Lay. 15937 Þe an [dragon] is a norð half, þe oðer a suð half. c1290St. Edmund 381 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 442 In þe southhalf þoruȝ al þe heiȝe strete it [sc. rain] leide on for wod. 1439Charters, etc. of Edinb. (1871) 64 Lyande in the toune off Leicht..on Soucht halfe the vatir. 1473Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 43 Passande with lettres on Southalue for the ditte and the garde. 1474Ibid. 50 Ane vthir currour passande on southalue Forth. 1524Ibid. V. 236, xj lettres..direct to all the Shereffis on south half Forth. |