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South-western. World English Historical Dictionary

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South-western. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1919, rev. 2025. South-western a. and sb. [OE. súðwesterne (see SOUTH adv. and WESTERN a.), = OHG. sundwestrôni.]

1   A.  adj. 1. Of the wind: Blowing from the south-west.

2 c. 1000.  Apollonius of Tyre (Thorpe), 11. Se angrislica suðwesterna wind him onʓean stod.

3 1362.  Langl., P. Pl., A. V. 14. Þis souþ-Westerne wynt on a Seterday at euen.

4 1835.  Mrs. Somerville, Connex. Phys. Sci., xv. (ed. 2), 147. The western and south-western gales, so prevalent in our latitudes.

5 1894.  Gladstone, Horace, Odes, I. xiv. 19. Seest not? thy mast How rent by stiff southwestern blast?

6   2.  Situated or extending towards the south-west; of or pertaining to the south-west.

7 1828–32.  Webster, s.v., To sail a southwestern course.

8 1839.  Penny Cycl., XV. 345/1. The south-western coast of the island of Sumatra.

9 1863.  W. Barnes, Dorset Gloss., 9. The main marks of south-western English.

10 1888.  Miss Braddon, Fatal Three, I. I. v. 84. It is too warm in this south-western country.

11   B.  sb. A wave from the south-west. rare–1.

12 1872.  Tennyson, Gareth & Lynette, 1117. Gareth … could not wholly bring him under, more Than loud Southwesterns, rolling ridge on ridge, The buoy that rides at sea.

13   Hence South-westerner, one belonging to the south-west (of the United States, etc.). Also South-westernmost adv.

14 1862.  Ansted, Channel Isl., I. iii. 49. The south-westernmost angle.

15 1888.  Encycl. Brit., XXIII. 799/1. The south-westernmost portion of the region.

16 1888.  T. Roosevelt, in Century Mag., Feb., 502/2. The bulk of the cowboys themselves are South-westerners.

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