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单词 by south
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by south
c. In compound prepositions of direction, as by-hither on this side of, by west to the west of, by north [perhaps representing Old English be norðan benorth adv. and prep.] in or to the north, on the north side, etc.; similarly by south, by west, by east; also used substantively. Obsolete. More commonly be-east adv. and prep., benorth prep., behither prep. and adv., etc.
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the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > North > [adverb]
northeOE
by northc893
northwardseOE
northwardOE
benorth1087
norwarda1450
northly1480
northerly1538
northernly1576
northenwards1591
at north1625
septentrionally1646
north-about1673
norwards1673
northernly1679
northwardly1726
anorth1807
north-away1820
northbound1867
up-along1908
c893 tr. Orosius Hist. i. i. §6 Be norþam þæm porte.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 15079 Þis iherde Cadwalan þe king wes bi suððen [c1300 Otho suþe].
c1300 K. Horn (Laud) 1366 He woneþ alby weste.
c1300 Oxf. Student (Harl.) 1 in F. J. Furnivall Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 40 A kniȝt þer was in Engelond, by norþe her biside.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 31 Now Loegria hatte Engelond; Þe meeres and þe marke were þerof somtyme þe Frensche see boþe by est and by souþ.
c1475 (?c1425) Avowing of King Arthur (1984) l. 746 He..was comun fro bi southe.
?c1475 in J. Gairdner Sailing Direct. (1889) 14 Seint Mary of Cille and Uschante lien northwest and by north.
a1500 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Rawl.) (1896) 71 That was the name of a stone, that lay ouer a streme by north the churchey of Seynte dauyes.
a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) III. 5 A Castel a Mile by West from Markesin.
1574 J. Higgins 1st Pt. Mirour for Magistrates f. 43 He builded here, Three townes while absente thence was I: By Southe he foundid Winchester, By East he built Cantorbury. By Weste full highe he builte the laste.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 961/2 The whole armie was landed two miles by west [1577 bewest] the towne of Lith.
1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 237 They dwelt By-west the Law, which dwelt beyond the Riuer of the Barrow.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. v. ii. §8. 416 Like as they called Cisalpines, or by-hither the Alpes, those who dwelt betweene them and the Mountaines.
1623 R. Aylett Ioseph iv. 44 A plaine way from thence to Egypt guides Ore Sihor, which from Canaan it diuides By South, as great Euphrates doth diuide Chalde, by North, from Canaans fruitfull side.
1674 Hogan-Moganides 51 Each Belch a Wave upon the Ocean Gave him a toss that set him forward, Stearing East and by West of Norward.
1716 Let. in R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 119 The places in Fife, by-east Dunfermline.
1791 J. Wemyss in J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. II. xxxviii. 423 It is situated in the county of Fife, on the Firth of Forth, north and by west, from Leith, about 6 miles.
1846 Guide Archit. Antiq. Neighbourhood Oxford 45 The Village and Castle of Middleton in Oxfordshire, is two miles by west from Burchester.
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