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southerly

Word definitions for southerly in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Southerly is a United States musical act, a solo project of Krist Kreuger. The Madison, Wisconsin native started the project in 2001, releasing an EP, but put it on hiatus to focus on building his own independent booking agency, The Crow Agency . After ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. situated in or oriented toward the south; "a southern exposure"; "took a southerly course" [syn: southern ] from the south; used especially of wind; "a hot south wind"; "southern breezes"; "the winds are southerly" [syn: southern ] n. a wind from the ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
South southerly \South` south"er*ly\ (Zo["o]l.) the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly , and southerland . See under Old .

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a northerly/southerly etc route ▪ She followed the northerly route across Spain to Bilbao. a northerly/southerly etc wind (= coming from the north etc ) ▪ A fresh northerly wind was speeding the ship southwards. ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 coming from the south. 2 Facing the south; directed towards the south. 3 Located towards the south adv. 1 In a southward direction or position; towards the south. 2 From the south. n. A wind blowing from the south.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s (adj.); 1570s (adv.); from southern + -ly . Related: Southerliness .

Usage examples of southerly.

I was remembering Cliffs message: the Faeroes had reported barometric pressure 968, rising, with winds southerly, force 10.

The sandbar keeps building up from the southerly littoral drift, and they have to dredge it every few months.

Cape Malea is the most southerly point of Laconia in the Peloponnesus, renowned for its storms.

Acadia or Nova Scotia, describe our settlements as they lie in a southerly direction, as far as the gulf of Florida.

Jondalar turned away from the river they had been following, veering toward the west in their general southerly route, and traveled across country.

The Gakkos followed the ants: Hite, Gashpari, Leopold, and Bidandengero whished silently over moss and through ferns in a southerly direction.

Norway outside a warehouse facing arctic whiteness with a stoicism more southerly bulbs begin strobing faintly just at the thought of.

He had first been truly glad that he had them on the day when he, by then Lord Commander of the Royal English and Welsh Horse, had brought to battle a tardy, mounted force of CrusadersSpanish, Catalonian, Aragonese, Leonese, Asturian, Galician, Andalusian, Moorish, and Portuguese, with a light sprinkling of other nationalitiesthat had landed on the southern coast late in the winter and had been since playing hob in the most southerly counties.

Leader Alan Eastoe turned the AWACS Nimrod in a slow arc as he completed the southerly leg of his patrol at twenty-five thousand feet above the road which straggled across the Norwegian Finnmark from the Tanafjord to the small town of Karasjok.

September 7, the information before us showed that the westerly and southerly movement of barges and small ships to posts between Ostend and Havre was in progress, and as these assembly harbours were under heavy British air attack, it was not likely the ships would be brought to them until shortly before the actual attempt.

He had filed a day trip to Islay, the largest of the nearby coastal islands, but they made such good speed to their destination that he decided to continue on, picking up the Southerly Current.

Magnolia District, so called because a botanically challenged early explorer had mistaken its profusion of madrona trees for an unrelated species that graced more southerly climes.

In the beginning, they made their homes on some of the less rocky, more southerly islands, refurbishing ancient ruins, farming where decent soil remained, breeding small numbers of stock beasts on the strictly limited graze, fishing, and in times of desperation, raiding the coasts and riverways of their previous homelands to the west.

Southerly, near a broad shallow river, was allied to us by force the country of Tolteca, which I knew would march anywhere at my will, were I to point into the grinning mouths of Cerberus.

I was remembering Cliffs message: the Faeroes had reported barometric pressure 968, rising, with winds southerly, force 10.