prefix, ad. AF. suth-, alteration of OF. suz-, sus-, sous- SOUS-, occurring in a few words, as south-bailie, a sub-bailiff; southbarbs, = SUBURB(S; south-bois (see quot.); southcellarer, -deacon, -dean, = SUBCELLARER, -DEACON, -DEAN; south-lace, -lase, a beam of wood (cf. LACE sb. 4) acting as a support for something. Obs.

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  The AF. suthbaillif occurs in 1306 in Rolls of Parlt., I. 209/2, and suthvicar about 1400 in Higden (Rolls), IX. 134.

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c. 1325.  Poem temp. Edw. II. (Percy), lxvi. Baylys & *southbailys Under the shireves.

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c. 1450.  Brut, 353. Euery strete & lane yn London & yn þe *sowthbarbez.

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1541.  St. Papers Hen. VIII. (1834), III. 322. The late suppressed house of Blak Friers in the southe barbis of the said citie.

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1706.  Phillips (ed. Kersey), s.v. Vert, Nether-vert … denotes Under-Woods, and is otherwise call’d *South-bois, or Sub-bois.

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14[?].  Nom., in Wr.-Wülcker, 681. Hic succellerarius, a *sowthselerer.

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c. 1400.  Three Kings Cologne (1886), 152. Þe preest and þe dekene and þe *southdekene þei mete togeder on thre partyes.

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1563.  Foxe, A. & M., 65/2. The wise man Pandolph the Popes Southdeacon.

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1393.  Langl., P. Pl., C. III. 187. Somenours and *southdenes þat supersedeas takeþ.

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1374.  in Willis & Clark, Cambridge (1886), I. 238. Wyndbems, *suchlates [? read suthlaces], Asthelers, Corbels. Ibid. (1448), II. 8. The sowthelases and the asshelers shull accord in brede with the sparres. Ibid. (1449), 10. All the sowtlases, asshalers, walplatz and jopees.

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