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articular direction; position in relation to the points of the compass; as, a house has a southern aspect, that is, a position which faces the south.

A species of sand grouse (Syrrghaptes Pallasii) found in Asia and rarely in southern Europe.

A familiar name for an aunt. In the southern United States a familiar term applied to aged negro women.

The aurora borealis or aurora australis (northern or southern lights). Aurora borealis (, i. e., northern daybreak; popularly called northern lights. A luminous meteoric phenomenon, visible only at night, and supposed to be of electrical origin. This species of light usually appears in streams, ascending toward the zen…

Southern; lying or being in the south; as, austral land; austral ocean. Austral signs (Astron.), the last six signs of the zodiac, or those south of the equator.

Southern; southerly; austral. [Obs.] Bailey.

The Neapolitan medlar (Cratægus azarolus), a shrub of southern Europe; also, its fruit.

A handsome Asiatic tree (Melia azedarach), common in the southern United States; -- called also, Pride of India, Pride of China, and Bead tree.

A kind of bass, an edible fresh-water fish (Pomoxys annularis) of the southern United States.

To challenge or defy to a match. [Colloq. Southern and Western U.S.]

A member of one of the great family of Negroid tribes occupying equatorial and southern Africa. These tribes include, as important divisions, the Kafirs, Damaras, Bechuanas, and many tribes whose names begin with Aba-, Ama-, Ba-, Ma-, Wa-, variants of the Bantu plural personal prefix Aba-, as in Ba-ntu, or Aba-ntu, its…

A southern name for the kingfishes of the eastern and southeastern coasts of the United States; -- also improperly called whiting.

The southern, red, or channel bass (Sciæna ocellata). See Redfish.

r, sometimes sluggish, sometimes without perceptible movement except from tide and wind. [Southern U. S.] A dark slender thread of a bayou moves loiteringly northeastward into a swamp of huge cypresses. G. W. Cable.

A leguminous shrub of southern Europe, with trifoliate leaves (Anagyris foetida).

om their seeds an oil is expressed, called benne oil, used mostly for making soap. In the southern United States the seeds are used in candy.

A kind of grass (Cynodon Dactylon) esteemed for pasture in the Southern United States. It is a native of Southern Europe, but is now wide-spread in warm countries; -- called also scutch grass, and in Bermuda, devil grass.

ompound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. B. capreolata is the cross vine of the Southern United States. The trumpet creeper was formerly considered to be of this genus.

In the Southern and Southwestern States, a small silver coin (as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12 1/2 cents; also, the sum of 12 1/2 cents. Bit my bit, piecemeal. Pope.

A fish of southern Europe (Centrolophus pompilus) of the Mackerel family.