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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: South \South\, adv 1. Toward the south; southward. 2. From the south; as the wind blows south. --Bacon. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: South \South\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Southed}; p. pr & vb n. {Southing}.] 1. To turn or move toward the south; to veer toward the south. 2. (Astron.) To come to the meridian; to cross the north and south line -- said chiefly of the moon; as the moon souths at nine From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: South \South\ (?; by sailors sou), n. [OE. south, su[thorn], AS s[=u][eth] for sun[eth]; akin to D. zuid, OHG. sund, G. s["u]d, s["u]den, Icel. su[eth]r, sunnr, Dan. syd, s["o]nden, Sw syd, s["o]der, sunnan; all probably akin to E. sun, meaning, the side towards the sun. [root]297. See {Sun}.] 1. That one of the four cardinal points directly opposite to the north; the region or direction to the right or direction to the right of a person who faces the east. 2. A country, region, or place situated farther to the south than another; the southern section of a country. ``The queen of the south.'' --Matt. xii. 42. 3. Specifically: That part of the United States which is south of Mason and Dixon's line See under {Line}. 4. The wind from the south. [Obs.] --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: South \South\, a. Lying toward the south; situated at the south, or in a southern direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the south, or coming from the south; blowing from the south; southern; as the south pole. ``At the south entry.'' --Shak. {South-Sea tea} (Bot.) See {Yaupon}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: south adj : situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the south; "the south entrance" [ant: {north}] n 1: the region of the United States lying south of the Mason-Dixon line [syn: {South}] 2: the 11 southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861 [syn: {Confederacy}, {Confederate States of America}, {South}, {Dixie}, {Dixieland}] 3: the cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees [syn: {due south}, {S}] 4: any region lying in or toward the south [syn: {South}, {southland}] adv : in a southern direction; "we moved south" [syn: {South}, {to the south}, {in the south}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: South Heb. Negeb that arid district to the south of Palestine through which lay the caravan route from Central Palestine to Egypt (Gen. 12:9; 13:1, 3; 46:1-6). "The Negeb comprised a considerable but irregularly-shaped tract of country, its main portion stretching from the mountains and lowlands of Judah in the north to the mountains of Azazemeh in the south, and from the Dead Sea and southern Ghoron the east to the Mediterranean on the west." In Ezek. 20:46 (21:1 in Heb.) three different Hebrew words are all rendered "south." (1) "Set thy face toward the south" (Teman, the region on the right 1 Sam. 33:24); (2) "Drop thy word toward the south" (Negeb, the region of dryness, Josh. 15:4); (3) "Prophesy against the forest of the south field" (Darom, the region of brightness, Deut. 33:23). In Job 37:9 the word south" is literally "chamber," used here in the sense of treasury (comp. 38:22; Ps 135:7). This verse is rendered in the Revised Version "out of the chamber of the south."
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