[f. SOUTH adv. or sb.]

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  1.  intr. To cross the meridian of a place.

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1659–.  [see SOUTHING vbl. sb. 1 a].

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1828.  Moore, Pract. Navig., 140. The minutes after noon when she [sc. the moon] souths.

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1883.  R. A. Proctor, Great Pyramid, iii. 125. [The star] must have been visible to the naked eye, even when southing in full daylight.

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  2.  To veer, move or turn towards the south; to blow more from the south.

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1725.  De Foe, Voy. round World (1840), 173. I took the occasion … to keep still on southing.

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1864.  in Webster.

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1898.  J. M. Falkner, Moonfleet, xi. About sun-down the wind southed a point or two.

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