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ˈsouthwards, adv., n., and a.
Also 1 suðweardes, 5 Sc. southwardis, 6 -wardys, 7 sowards.
[OE. súðweardes: see south adv. and -wards. So MDu. sutwarts, zuytwerts, Du. zuidwaarts, G. südwärts.]
A. adv. = southward adv. Also quasi-n.
a1000Boeth. Metr. i. 4 Setton suðweardes siᵹeþeoda twa. 1375Barbour Bruce xiv. 250 And thai southwardis thair wais raid. 1517R. Torkington Pilgr. (1884) 38 The londe..marcheth..Southwardys to the londe of Egipte. 1619in Foster Eng. Factories Ind. (1906) I. 55 They usually have had good quantety..from sowards. 1687Miége Gt. Fr. Dict. i, Du côté du Midi, southwards. 1707J. Chamberlayne Pres. St. Gt. Brit. (1710) 342 All those Islands lie in a Row Southwards one of the other. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVIII. 861/1 Bending gradually, as we advance southwards,..to the south-west. 1837Lockhart Scott I. viii. 265 Proceeding southwards, the tourists visited Carlisle. 1875J. Croll Climate & T. xiv. 230 Deflected southwards into the Antarctic Sea.
fig.1857Grindon Life: its Nature (ed. 2) iii. 31 That the heart should look southwards.
B. n. = southward n.
1618in Foster Eng. Factories Ind. (1906) I. 31, I ymployed the Fraunces..to the southwards the better to discover the coast. 1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. iv. iii. 148 The Ship is to the Southwards of the Place she departed [from]. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Wind, In South Latitudes to the Southwards thereof [sc. the equator].
C. adj. Directed towards the south. rare—1.
1842Whewell in Mrs. S. Douglas Life (1881) 262 The next time that you make your southwards move. |