Obs. [OE. súðhealf (see SOUTH adv. and HALF sb.), = MDu. suuthalf, ON. suðrhálfa, OHG. sund(ar)halba.] The south side or part; the south. In later use ellipt. as prep.
c. 893. K. Ælfred, Oros., I. i. Þara landa norþʓemæro sindon æt ðæm beorʓum Caucasus, & on suþhealfe se Reada Sæ.
a. 1122. O. E. Chron. (Laud MS.), an. 1016. [Hie] dulfon þa ane mycele dic on ða suðhealfe.
c. 1205. Lay., 15937. Þe an [dragon] is a norð half, þe oðer a suð half.
c. 1290. St. Edmund, 381, in S. Eng. Leg., I. 442. In þe southhalf þoruȝ al þe heiȝe strete it [sc. rain] leide on for wod.
1439. Charters, etc., of Edinb. (1871), 64. Lyande in the toune off Leicht … on Soucht halfe the vatir.
1473. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., I. 43. Passande with lettres on Southalue for the ditte and the garde. Ibid. (1474), 50. Ane vthir currour passande on southalue Forth. Ibid. (1524), V. 236. xj lettres … direct to all the Shereffis on south half Forth.
