▪ I. south-, prefix1
(saʊθ)
Combining form representing south n. or adv., occurring, with the sense ‘to or towards, in or on, the south’, in participial combinations, as south-facing, south-falling, south-following, south-going, south-running, etc.; south-bounded, south-turned, etc.
| 1961 Times 23 Dec. 3/4 The aspect is right, that is *south-facing. 1978 ‘J. Bell’ Swan-Song Betrayed ii. 16 Her workroom, small but south-facing. |
| 1632 Lithgow Trav. vi. 281 The devalling side of the *South-falling Syon. |
| 1784 Phil. Trans. LXXV. 90 The sextuple or *south following set. |
| 1896 Westm. Gaz. 2 May 5/2 The *south-going Irish boat express. |
| 1788 Phil. Trans. LXXVIII. 372, 13° 17{p} from *south-preceding to north-following the meridian. |
| 1819 Scott Let. in Lockhart (1837) IV. viii. 244 My Highland piper,..who spent a whole Sunday in selecting twelve stones from twelve *south-running streams. |
| 1876 ‘Ouida’ Winter City vii, The *south-wintering northern swallows. |
| 1598 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. ii. iii. Colonies 83 Those Realms *South-bounded round with Sun-burnt Guinne. |
| 1870 Morris Earthly Par. III. iv. 296 Exceeding good Its sunny *south-turned slopes are. |
2. Also in
Comb. with advbs., as
south-about adv., by a southerly route; also
attrib.;
south-away quasi-n., somewhere to the
south.| 1958 Times 20 Dec. 3/3 Bass frequent the coast from Suffolk south-about to Cheshire. 1961 Times 24 Nov. 14/6 So it was decided..to send the ship by the south-about route via Cape Horn. |
| 1954 J. R. R. Tolkien Fellowship of Ring 16 The folk of the Marish..came..up from south-away. |
▪ II. † south- prefix2 [ad. AF. suth-, alteration of OF. suz-, sus-, sous- sous-.] An element occurring in a few words, as
south-bailie, a sub-bailiff;
southbarbs,
= suburbs;
south-bois (see
quot.);
southcellarer,
south-deacon,
south-dean,
= subcellarer, -deacon, -dean;
south-lace,
south-lase, a beam of wood (
cf. lace n. 4) acting as a support for something.
Obs. The
AF. suthbaillif occurs in 1306 in
Rolls of Parlt. I. 209/2, and
suthvicar about 1400 in Higden (Rolls) IX. 134.
| c 1325 Poem temp. Edw. II (Percy) lxvi, Baylys & *south⁓bailys Under the shireves. |
| c 1450 Brut 353 Euery strete & lane yn London & yn þe *sowthbarbez. 1541 St. Papers Hen. VIII (1834) III. 322 The late suppressed house of Blak Friers in the southe barbis of the said citie. |
| 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey) s.v. Vert, Nether-vert..denotes Under-Woods, and is otherwise call'd *South-bois, or Sub⁓bois. |
| 14.. Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 681 Hic succellerarius, a *sowthselerer. |
| c 1400 Three Kings Cologne (1886) 152 Þe preest and þe dekene and þe *southdekene þei mete togeder on thre partyes. 1563 Foxe A. & M. 65/2 The wise man Pandolph the Popes Southdeacon. |
| 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. iii. 187 Somenours and *southdenes þat supersedeas takeþ. |
| 1374 in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) I. 238 Wyndbems, *suchlates [? read suthlaces], Asthelers, Corbels. 1448 Ibid. II. 8 The sowthelases and the asshelers shull accord in brede with the sparres. 1449 Ibid. 10 All the sowtlases, asshalers, walplatz and jopees. |