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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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"South" Quotes from Famous Books



... that the law of causality holds only between homogeneous things, that is, things having some common property; and cannot extend from one world into another, its contrary. A close analysis evinced it to be no less absurd than the question whether a man's affection for his wife lay North-east, or South-west of the love he bore towards his child. Leibnitz's doctrine of a pre-established harmony; which he certainly borrowed from Spinoza, who had himself taken the hint from Des Cartes's animal machines, was in its common interpretation too strange to survive ...
— Biographia Literaria • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
... reality to visions bright; And on the curtain of dissolving mist Arches the many-tinted sign of heaven? Hast thou the minstrelsie of the wild woods, Clear-tided strains floating along the sky, Swelling, subsiding, like a silvery sea Beneath the dulcet breathing of the south? Hast thou that essence of all joyousness— The glorious independence of the soul— That spurneth man's usurped tyranny, The power of wealth, and hapless circumstance, And, sweeping on its own unaided wings, Measures the circuit of the boundless ...
— Eidolon - The Course of a Soul and Other Poems • Walter R. Cassels
... Answer. The South and East must compromise. Both can trust the West. The West represents the whole country. There is no provincialism in the West. The West is not old enough to have the prejudice of section; it is too prosperous to have hatred, too ...
— The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. - Interviews • Robert Green Ingersoll
... "but in that case a money-romance, not a love-romance. This Phrasie or Marquise de Javelle, announces in one of her letters, that in February, 1853, she has given birth to a daughter, whom she has confided to some relatives of hers in the south, near Toulouse. It was doubtless that event which induced my father to acknowledge who he was. He confesses that he is not a poor clerk, but the Marquis de Tregars, having an income of over a hundred thousand francs. At once the tone of the correspondence changes. The Marquise ...
— Other People's Money • Emile Gaboriau
... the town of Portus, on the north side of the Tiber's mouths, Ostia, on the south side, having been long neglected. ...
— Procopius - History of the Wars, Books V. and VI. • Procopius


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