south-westernadj.n.

OE tr. Apollonius of Tyre (1958) xi. 16 Þartoeacan coman eastnorðerne windas and se angrislica suðwesterna wind [L. Affricus horridus] him ongean stod.

c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. v. l. 14 Þis souþ-Westerne wynt on a Seterday at euen.

1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia ix. 380 South-westerne blasts, that Noth-east tend.

1715 J. Browne tr. Horace in State Tracts II. 126 South-Western Winds blow with impetuous Blast They crack the Yard, and bend the sturdy Mast.

1788 J. Brown Orig. Poems 68 The sweet sound of the horn is heard from afar, Convey'd by a South-western gale.

1799 R. Warner Second Walk through Wales xvi. 347 The little island of Caldy, rising out of the ocean and stretching two miles in length, defends Tenby from the rage of the south-western blast.

1835 M. Somerville On Connexion Physical Sci. (ed. 2) xv. 147 The western and south-western gales, so prevalent in our latitudes.

1876 G. Meredith Beauchamp's Career II. iii. 42 A south-western autumnal gale..made threads of Cecilia's shorter locks.

1894 W. E. Gladstone tr. Horace Odes i. xiv. 19 Seest not? thy mast How rent by stiff southwestern blast?

1919 J. Buchan Mr. Standfast v. 80 The confounded tub wallowed like a fat sow as soon as we rounded a headland and got the weight of the south-western wind.

1958 R. Bullard Middle East ix. 368 The prevailing wind is north-west, with short intermittent periods of south-eastern to south-western winds accompanying periods of winter rainfall.

2009 Miami Herald (Nexis) 27 May b1 A weak low pressure system in the western Atlantic Ocean and southwestern winds will continue to spark the strongest storms over the Southeast coast.

1577 R. Willes in R. Willes & R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Hist. Trauayle W. & E. Indies sig. iiii^v This enflamed the Spanyardes to take vppon them the discouery of the West and Southwesterne landes.

1662 J. Graunt Nat. & Polit. Observ. Bills Mortality Concl. 73 I have heard much complaint, that Trade is not set up in some of the South-western, and North-western Parts of Ireland.

1688 S. Johnson Purgatory Prov'd by Miracles 31 St. Decumanus, born of Noble Parents in the South-western parts of Wales.

1753 W. Maitland Hist. Edinb. ii. 152/1 To this Regality..appertains the Town of North Leith, that Part of South Leith, called the Coal-hill, and that Part of St. Leonard's,..adjoining to the Southwestern Part of the Canongate.

1792 A. Robertson Topogr. Surv. Great Road London to Bath & Bristol II. vi. 74 A little beyond the eighty-fourth mile stone, the road to Devizes turns off in a south-western direction.

1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) To sail a southwestern course.

1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 345/1 The south-western coast of the island of Sumatra.

1888 M. E. Braddon Fatal Three I. v. 84 It is too warm in this south-western country.

1911 Encycl. Brit. III. 362/2 There is a treatise on the Lunda language of the south-western part of the Belgian Congo, in Portuguese, by Henrique de Carvalho.

1936 J. T. Jenkins Fishes Brit. Isles (ed. 2) 54 A southern species, the Piper is only met with off our south and south-western coasts.

1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. i. 107 Along the southwestern shore of the lakes where the karst topography is best developed, there are not only many islands but also very deep holes.

2006 Metro (Toronto) 8 Nov. 21/4 Croix-Rouge in south-western Paris, one of the Metro's ‘phantom stations’.

1651 E. Bland et al. Discov. New Brit. 1 Sir W. Berkly...advanced from Fort Henry, lying on Appamattuck River at the fals, being a branch of James River, intending a South westerne Discovery.

1675 R. Coke Eng.'s Improvem. 52 Falmouth, (the most excellent Port of the world, and the most convenient for the Southern, Western, South-Eastern and South-western Trades).

1746 T. Salmon Mod. Hist. (new ed.) III. 546 All the eastern and southern trade is in a manner lost to the French, and a considerable part of the south-western trade.

1863 W. Barnes Gram. & Gloss. Dorset Dial. 9 The main marks of south-western English.

1922 J. W. H. Atkins in Owl & Nightingale Introd. p. xli This would imply an original written in a dialect other than Kentish—the south-western dialect for instance.

2002 Scotsman (Nexis) 22 Mar. 10 In recognition of the hot climate from which it hails, the south-western style of Mohiniattam is more relaxed in pace.

1793 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 3 135 We find the highest proportions of males in Kentuckey, Vermont, and the South-Western territory, to which the most numerous migrations have recently been made.

1806 New Eng. Palladium (Boston) 30 July 2/1 The President appoints the Legislative Councils in our South~western Territories.

1832 Jrnl. Gen. Convent. Protestant Episcopal Church 51 Delegates have been chosen to co-operate with Alabama and Louisiana in organizing the contemplated South-Western Diocese.

1871 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 509 Naked possessor, is the odd title by which, in Texas and the Southwestern States, the occupant of a farm is known, who can show no title to his land.

1900 H. L. Keeler Our Native Trees 125 Choke Cherry. Wild Cherry. Prùnus virginiàna. A shrub throughout the north, only becoming a tree in the southwestern part of the United States.

1930 Nature Mag. Mar. 147/3 The spotted owl..has been most closely studied in our southwestern states, where it nests on cliffs or in shallow caves.

1973 J. M. White Garden Game 150 The walls were whitewashed in simple, South-Western style.

2005 N.Y. Mag. 25 Apr. 105/3 One of the city's pioneers of Southwestern cuisine, this cantina is warm and welcoming.

1872 Ld. Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 71 Gareth..could not wholly bring him under, more Than loud Southwesterns, rolling ridge on ridge, The buoy that rides at sea.

1965 R. H. Billigmeier & F. A. Picard tr. Old Land & New 77 Because of the storms and the southwesterns we have been driven a bit too far north.