southing
Americannoun
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Astronomy.
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the transit of a heavenly body across the celestial meridian.
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south declination.
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movement or deviation toward the south.
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distance due south made by a vessel.
noun
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nautical movement, deviation, or distance covered in a southerly direction
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astronomy a south or negative declination
Etymology
Origin of southing
Example Sentences
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Consequently the southing bergs must have piled up on the Newfoundland and Labrador coasts, as though Jack Frost and King Neptune, bored with spring gambling, had laid aside their sea dice.
From Time Magazine Archive
When they had made sufficient southing, Belbeis again headed for the Suez road, and after another two hours' ride this was reached without accident.
From Under the Rebel's Reign by Charles Neufeld
Another striking scene peculiar to the locality is witnessed in the autumn, when the sun in making its annual southing reaches a point which, at the sunset hour, is directly west from the Falls.
From The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts by George W. Holley
It is so bright that, viewed through that tube, it must have been visible to the naked eye, even when southing in full daylight.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various
His cell looked South, and thus he could study the movements of the moon and the planets, and note the southing of the stars.
From The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London by P. S. (Percy Stafford) Allen
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