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A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point toward the south pole. Faraday.

Using the left hand in pitching; said of a pitcher. [Cant]

Southern. [Obs.] "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.

An inhabitant of the more southern part of a country; formerly, a name given in Scotland to any Englishman.

See Soothsay. [Obs.]

See Soothsayer. [Obs.]

Toward the south.

Toward the south, or toward a point nearer the south than the east or west point; as, to go southward.

In a southern direction.

The point of the compass equally from the south and the west; the southwest part or region.

A storm, gale, or strong wind from the southwest.

To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.

Of or pertaining to the southwest; southwesterly; as, to sail a southwestern course.

Toward the southwest.

A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision. Dryden.

Having a splaymouth. T. Brown.

To throw out forcibly and abudantly, as liquids through an office or a pipe; to eject in a jet; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk. Who kept Jonas in the fish's maw Till he was spouted up at Ninivee Chaucer. Next on his belly floats the mighty whale . . . He spouts the tide. Creech.

One who, or that which, spouts.

A marine animal that spouts water; -- applied especially to certain bivalve mollusks, like the long clams (Mya), which spout, or squirt out, water when retiring into their holes.

Having no spout. Cowper.