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southward, adv., n., and a.
(ˈsaʊθwəd, Naut. ˈsʌðəd)
Forms: 1 suþ-, suðweard, 3 suþ-, suð-, 4– southward, 5–6 -warde, Sc. 5–7 -wart, 4, 7 sowthward. See also southard.
[OE. súðweard, f. south adv. + -ward. Cf. MDu. suut-, sude-, zuytwaert, MLG. sûdwart, -wert.]
A. adv.
1. Towards the south; in a southern direction:
a. Of motion or direction.
c893K. ælfred Oros. i. i. §10 Þær of þæm beorᵹum wilþ seo ea suþweard Eufrates. c1000Sax. Leechd. III. 250 Heo [sc. the sun] cyrð ðær ongean eft suðweard. a1122O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 1095, Þa het he makian ænne castel,..& syððan suðweard for. c1205Lay. 29543 Swa he droh suð-ward, Þat he com to Dorchestre. c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 234 Þo tornede þe wynd in-to þe North, and drof heom south-ward faste. c1391Chaucer Astrol. i. §17 His Moeuyng is clepid sowth-ward as fro the equinoxial. c1450Contin. Brut 533 Whan he had taried a while in þe Northe..he retorned Southwarde. 1535Coverdale Numb. xiii. 17 Go vp southwarde..and loke vpon the londe how it is. 1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. ii. iv. Columnes 391 Then South-ward Sol doth retrograde. 1603Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 506/1 Passand ovir the streit..southwart to the loch. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 437 They take their Flight;..Nor Southward to the Rainy Regions run, But boring to the West. 1726–46Thomson Winter 920 Life..from the dreary months Flies conscious southward. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. II. 32 The apostle..fled from Rome southward. 1872Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 179 Southward they set their faces.
b. Of relative position.
1390Gower Conf. III. 127 After hem [sc. constellations] I finde thus, Southward from Alisandre forth Tho Signes [etc.]. 1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy i. 1518 Phebus southward was reised in his arke. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. (1637) 631 Beneath Brecknock and Hereford-shire Southward, lyeth the County of Monmouth. 1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. vii. xvi. 25 Those that live 90 deg. from us Northward or Southward. 1726in W. Wing Ann. Steeple Aston (1875) 54 The land..of Mr. Belcher, lying northward, and of Brazenose College southward.
c. Followed by of.
1630Capt. Smith Wks. (Arb.) 953 The best Countries..of the world, both Northward and Southward of the line. 1649Davenant Love & Hon. ii. i. 701 In a cloud, Southward of yonder star. 1738Gentl. Mag. VIII. 164/1, 20 Leagues Southward of Porto Rico. 1771Encycl. Brit. III. 379/1 Because Port-Royal is southward of the Lizard. 1814Scott Diary 26 Aug. in Lockhart, Southward of both lies Muick, or Muck. 1896Baden-Powell Matabele Campaign ii, Half a mile southward of the town lies a bush-covered rising ground.
d. Comb., as southward-facing, southward-looking, etc.
1853M. Arnold Scholar Gypsy xxiv, The fringes of a southward-facing brow. 1871Morris Earthly Par. IV. 88 The southward-looking hill. 1885–94R. Bridges Eros & Psyche March 23 The southward stretching margin of a bay.
2. quasi-n. = next.
1842Macaulay Regillus xxiii, So came he far to southward. 1884Bedford Sailor's Handbk. 101 The land wind comes off moderately from southward.
B. n. That direction or part which lies to the south of a place, etc.
1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 382 Wee had the wynde more easterly to the southwarde then before. 1618in Foster Eng. Factories India (1906) I. 3 Some new way to have a ship from the sowthward. 1707Lond. Gaz. No. 4386/2 Several other light Colliers..are this Day come hither from the Southward. 1748Anson's Voy. i. vi. 66 The wild cattle..have spread..from Buenos Ayres towards the southward. 1820Scoresby Acc. Arctic Reg. II. 210 Any situation in a lower latitude than 78°, is called the ‘southward’. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast x, It looked black at the southward and eastward. 1883Stevenson Treas. Isl. xxiii, I made sure she also was wheeling to the southward.
b. Const. of (a place, thing, etc.).
1624Capt. Smith's Wks. (Arb.) 762 To trade to the Southward of Cape Cod. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. xi. (1653) 179 The people on the southward of Tinda. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. i. 116 The highlands on the southward of the bay. 1801Sir H. Parker in A. Duncan Nelson (1806) 140 The wind veered..to the southward of the west. 1854W. Osburn Mon. Hist. Egypt II. ii. 54 A little to the southward of Melawi.
C. adj. That has a southerly situation or direction; lying, facing, moving, etc., towards the south.
1611Shakes. Wint. T. iv. iv. 819 The Sunne looking with a South-ward eye vpon him. 1638Chilmead tr. Hues' Treat. Globes i. ii. (Hakl. Soc.) 31 The bright Starre..in the end of the taile (which is also the most Southward of all). 1736Ainsworth ii, Australis, adj., southward, southern. 1820Scoresby Acc. Arctic Reg. II. 211 A number have been taken in the southward fishing stations. 1864Kerr Gentlem. Ho. 290 A southward aspect is..advantageous. 1882Swinburne Tristr. (1899) 237 With the southward swallow. |