adv. and a. [f. prec. + -LY2.]

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  A.  adv. 1. From the south.

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1596.  Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.), I. 25. This guse ȝeirlie in the spring tyme returnes to ws: quhairfra can na man tell: bot southwardlie.

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1704.  S. Sewall, Diary, 25 Aug. The wind was Southwardly.

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  2.  In a southward direction; to or towards the south.

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1632.  Lithgow, Trav., X. 443. A large prospect Southwardly towards the Evenise mountaines.

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1667.  Lond. Gaz., No. 189/1. A Fleet of 36 laden Colliers put to Sea from this place Southwardly bound.

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1738.  G. Whitefield, in Life & Jrnls. (1756), 90. A Town situated southwardly above an hundred Miles from Savannah.

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1796.  Morse, Amer. Geog., I. 215. Few of them winter there on their return southwardly.

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1810.  Vince, Astron., xx. 191. The star passed still more southwardly.

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1880.  L. Wallace, Ben-Hur, 173. It curved southwardly out of view.

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  B.  adj. Situated in or directed towards the south; of the wind, blowing from the south.

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c. 1682.  J. Collins, Salt & Fishery, 103. Fit for Exportation to Spain or other Southwardly Countries.

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1704.  Phil. Trans., XXV. 1657. The morning serene…, with small Southwardly Breezes. Ibid. (1805), XCVI. 244. The southwardly wind blew fresh.

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1858.  Merc. Marine Mag., V. 208. A southwardly course … would be a proper course.

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