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South-westward. 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-westward adv., sb. and a. [f. SOUTH-WEST + -WARD.] So MDu. suytwestwairt.]

1   A.  adv. = SOUTH-WEST adv.

2 1548.  Patten, Exped. Scotl., M vj. Thear stode southwestward about a quarter of a mile from our campe, a monasterie.

3 1553.  Eden, Treat. New Ind. (Arb.), 28. He sayled by the costes of the Ilande Southweste warde.

4 1612.  Drayton, Poly-olb., viii. 3. Clear Sabrine … South-westward casts her course.

5 1792.  Morse, Amer. Geog., 48. The … mountains which run south-westward through Pennsylvania.

6 1820.  Keats, Lamia, I. 179. That other ridge … Stretches … Southwestward to Cleone.

7 1876.  Meredith, Beauch. Career, xxxv. Save where a quarry south-westward gaped at the evening sun.

8 1884.  Bedford, Sailor’s Handbk., 441. The anchorage for large vessels is south-westward of Little Sea Hill.

9   B.  sb. = SOUTH-WEST sb.

10 1775.  Phil. Trans., LXVIII. 392. When the ship’s head was to the Southwestward.

11 1831.  Scott, Cast. Dang., i. Coming from the south-westward.

12 1884.  Bedford, Sailor’s Handbk., 411. [The currents] often run with great velocity to the south-westward.

13   C.  adj. Tending towards the south-west.

14 1796.  Morse, Amer. Geog., I. 384. The river Kennebeck takes a southwestward course.

15   So South-westwards adv.

16 1745.  trans. Egede’s Descr. Greenland, 39. The Current … running along the shore, South-Westwards.

17 1879.  Geikie, in Encycl. Brit., X. 339/2. From the mouth of the St. Lawrence south-westwards into Alabama.

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