What southing do you allow our drift will be giving us, captain?
I made what southing I could; but, all that time, we were beset by it.
I remember once, she was down on Central Avenue with Ross and he did southing or other that, wasn't nice.
There was enough of southing in the wind, to make his last course nearly due south.
After the gale blew itself out, a fresh breeze succeeded, which enabled them rapidly to run down their southing.
southing, which will make the place of taking altitude for time 55.
On the 31st, to my mortification, the river held so much to the northward, that we undid almost all our southing.
It is so bright that, viewed through that tube, it must have been visible to the naked eye, even when southing in full daylight.
But after a few weeks of content the southing spirit again seized upon the old male who had hitherto been the unquestioned leader.
With a southing wind blowing stiff from the icy Antarctic wastes, they “put it to her!”
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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