It is so bright that, viewed through that tube, it must have been visible to the naked eye, even when southing in full daylight.
What southing do you allow our drift will be giving us, captain?
As they made their southing, wind and weather seemed to fall astern, the sun poured with a more golden candour.
I remember once, she was down on Central Avenue with Ross and he did southing or other that, wasn't nice.
Who could ask a better stimulus for his imagination than the annual southing of this mighty host?
After the gale blew itself out, a fresh breeze succeeded, which enabled them rapidly to run down their southing.
I made what southing I could; but, all that time, we were beset by it.
southing, which will make the place of taking altitude for time 55.
Leisurely as our progress had been hitherto, we had always managed to make some southing each day.
On the 31st, to my mortification, the river held so much to the northward, that we undid almost all our southing.
Old English suð "southward, to the south, southern, in the south," from Proto-Germanic *sunthaz, perhaps literally "sun-side" (cf. Old Saxon, Old Frisian suth "southward, in the south," Middle Dutch suut, Dutch zuid, German Süden), and related to base of *sunnon "sun" (see sun (v.)). Old French sur, sud (French sud), Spanish sur, sud are loan-words from Germanic, perhaps from Old Norse suðr.
As an adjective from c.1300; as a noun, "one of the four cardinal points," also "southern region of a country," both late 13c. The Southern states of the U.S. have been collectively called The South since 1779 (in early use this often referred only to Georgia and South Carolina). South country in Britain means the part below the Tweed, in England the part below the Wash, and in Scotland the part below the Forth. South Sea meant "the Mediterranean" (late 14c.) and "the English Channel" (early 15c.) before it came to mean (in plural) "the South Pacific Ocean" (1520s). The nautical coat called a sou'wester (1836) protects the wearer against severe weather, such as a gale out of the southwest.
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