adv., sb. and a. Also 1 suðweardes, 5 Sc. southwardis, 6 -wardys, 7 sowards. [OE. súðweardes: see SOUTH adv. and -WARDS. So MDu. sutwarts, zuytwerts, Du. zuidwaarts, G. südwärts.]
A. adv. = SOUTHWARD adv. Also quasi-sb.
a. 1000. Boeth. Metr., i. 4. Setton suðweardes siʓeþeoda twa.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, XIV. 250. And thai southwardis thair wais raid.
1517. Torkington, Pilgr. (1884), 38. The londe … marcheth … Southwardys to the londe of Egipte.
1619. in Foster, Eng. Factories Ind. (1906), I. 54–5. They usually have had good quantety … from [the] sowards.
1687. Miége, Gt. Fr. Dict., I. Du côté du Midi, southwards.
1707. J. Chamberlayne, Pres. St. Gt. Brit. (1710), 342. All those Islands lie in a Row Southwards one of the other.
1797. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3), XVIII. 861/1. Bending gradually, as we advance southwards,… to the south-west.
1837. Lockhart, Scott, I. viii. 265. Proceeding southwards, the tourists visited Carlisle.
1875. Croll, Climate & T., xiv. 230. Deflected southwards into the Antarctic Sea.
fig. 1857. Grindon, Life: its Nature (ed. 2), iii. 31. That the heart should look southwards.
B. sb. = SOUTHWARD sb.
1618. in Foster, Eng. Factories Ind. (1906), I. 31. I ymployed the Fraunces … to the southwards the better to discover the coast.
1669. Sturmy, Mariner’s Mag., IV. iii. 148. The Ship is to the Southwards of the Place she departed [from].
1728. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Wind, In South Latitudes to the Southwards thereof [sc. the equator].
C. adj. Directed towards the south. rare–1.
1842. Whewell, in Mrs. S. Douglas, Life (1881), 262. The next time that you make your southwards move.
