besouth, prep. now Sc.
(bɪˈsaʊθ)
Also 5–6 besowth.
[f. be- + south: cf. be-east, be-north.]
On the south side of; to the south of.
| c 1410 Sir Cleges 473 A gest..Of a knyght there be-sowth. 1530 Lyndesay Papyngo 918 The borrow mure, Besouth Edinburgh. 1551 Recorde Cast. Knowl. (1556) 85, 29 degrees besouthe the tropike of Capricorne. 1650 Act Seder. 10 Jan. 64 (Jam.) This present Act shall..take effect for those besouth the water of Die. 1862 M. Napier Life Dundee II. 342 Perth besouth the river Earn. |