[Cf. prec. and -LY2.]
1. To the southward; in or towards the south; on the south side.
1577. Eden & Willes, Hist. Trav., 233 b. The … streict … openeth southerly more and more, vntyll it come vnder the tropike of Cancer.
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. xcvii. 43. When she is Northerly, and retired higher and farther from the earth, the tides are more gentle, than when shee is gone Southerly.
1669. Sturmy, Mariner’s Mag., IV. iii. 148. You have altered the Latitude, that is … you are more Southerly or Northerly.
1725. De Foe, Voy. round World (1840), 145. Then we steered away more southerly for six or eight days.
1756. P. Browne, Jamaica, 27. The place, where it is observed, is a pleasant vale situated southerly.
1832. De la Beche, Geol. Man., 95. A strong current sets from the Polar Seas … southerly down the coast of America.
1885. Manch. Exam., 10 Feb., 5/2. Crossing the hills…, he made his way southerly to Bangkok.
2. From the direction of the south.
a. 1642. Sir W. Monson, Naval Tracts, II. (1704), 260/1. The Wind chop’d up Southerly.
1725. De Foe, Voy. round World (1840), 175. The wind still holding southerly,… we could easily perceive the climate to change.
1769. Falconer, Dict. Marine (1780), s.v. Wind, Along the coasts of Cambodia and China … the Monsoons blow northerly and southerly.
