the Week of Proper 20 / Ordinary 25
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South
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A country, region, or place situated farther to the south than another; the southern section of a country.
(2):
(n.) That one of the four cardinal points directly opposite to the north; the region or direction to the right or direction to the right of a person who faces the east.
(3):
(a.) Lying toward the south; situated at the south, or in a southern direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the south, or coming from the south; blowing from the south; southern; as, the south pole.
(4):
(v. i.) To come to the meridian; to cross the north and south line; - said chiefly of the moon; as, the moon souths at nine.
(5):
(v. i.) To turn or move toward the south; to veer toward the south.
(6):
(adv.) From the south; as, the wind blows south.
(7):
(adv.) Toward the south; southward.
(8):
(n.) The wind from the south.
(9):
(n.) Specifically: That part of the United States which is south of Mason and Dixon's line. See under Line.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'South'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/south.html. 1828.
