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South   /saʊθ/   Listen
noun
South  n.  
1.
That one of the four cardinal points directly opposite to the north; the region or direction to the right or direction to the right of a person who faces the east.
2.
A country, region, or place situated farther to the south than another; the southern section of a country. "The queen of the south."
3.
Specifically: That part of the United States which is south of Mason and Dixon's line. See under Line.
4.
The wind from the south. (Obs.)


verb
South  v. i.  (past & past part. southed; pres. part. southing)  
1.
To turn or move toward the south; to veer toward the south.
2.
(Astron.) To come to the meridian; to cross the north and south line; said chiefly of the moon; as, the moon souths at nine.


adjective
South  adj.  Lying toward the south; situated at the south, or in a southern direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the south, or coming from the south; blowing from the south; southern; as, the south pole. "At the south entry."
South-Sea tea (Bot.) See Yaupon.


adverb
South  adv.  
1.
Toward the south; southward.
2.
From the south; as, the wind blows south.





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... panelling. The students and juniors were in their usual places, sitting at the feet of their favourite Common-law Judge; but the idlers who came for amusement, to saunter about the hall, haggle for books with the second-hand dealers along the south wall, or flirt with the milliners who kept stalls for bands and other legal finery on the opposite side, or to listen on tiptoe, with an ear above the panelled enclosure, to the quips and cranks or fierce rhetoric of a famous advocate—these to-day gravitated with one accord towards the south-west ...
— London Pride - Or When the World Was Younger • M. E. Braddon
... been guardin' ther herd at night we picked up around here when we drove ther herd up from ther South." ...
— Ted Strong's Motor Car • Edward C. Taylor
... out of the Sound I stood over to the eastward, in order to get the streight well open before the tide of ebb came on. At seven in the evening, the two small islands which lie off Cape Koamaroo, the south-east head of Queen Charlotte's Sound, bore east, distant about four miles: At this time it was nearly calm, and the tide of ebb setting out, we were, in a very short time, carried by the rapidity of the stream close upon one of the islands, which was a rock rising almost perpendicularly out of the ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 13 • Robert Kerr
... of the lake and the ocean. It is not the West, with her forrest-sea and her inland-isles, with her luxuriant expanses, clothed in the verdant corn, with her beautiful Ohio and her majestic Missouri. Nor is it yet the South, opulent in the mimic snow of the cotton, in the rich plantations of the rustling cane, and in the golden robes of the rice-field. What are these but the sister families of one greater, better, ...
— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick
... he allowed Alfonso time to prepare for the contest. The following June, the kings of Leon and Castile having assembled at Toledo, and been joined by a considerable number of foreign volunteers, the Christian army advanced toward the south. That of the infidels lay in the neighborhood of Baeza, and extended to ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 5 • Various


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