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Toward the southwest.

Georgia; -- a nickname.

tate mammal, of the genus Orycteropus, somewhat resembling a pig, common in some parts of Southern Africa. It burrows in the ground, and feeds entirely on ants, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue.

A carnivorous quadruped (Proteles Lalandii), of South Africa, resembling the fox and hyena. See Proteles.

cked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection. "The whole tribe abets the villany." South. Would not the fool abet the stealth, Who rashly thus exposed his wealth Gay.

A large South American serpent (Boa aboma).

A narrow pass or defile; a break in a mesa; the mouth of a cañon. [Southwestern U. S.]

etc. Let us see whether the New Testament abrogates what we so frequently see in the Old. South. Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they can not alter or abrogate. Burke.

A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech.

oliday having been voted by acclamation, an ordinary walk would not satisfy the children. Southey.

knotty and difficult can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning. South.

ntury. Sir G. C. Lewis. He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft. Southey.

The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. The system of warfare . . . which had already converted immense tracts into one universal aceldama. De Quincey.…

A state of being acquainted; acquaintance. Southey.

f with much acrimony and indignation to baffle this senseless arrogant conceit of theirs. South.

The state of being actual; reality; as, the actuality of God's nature. South.

Put in action; actuated. [Obs.] South.

r right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception. To gain admittance into the house. South. He desires admittance to the king. Dryden. To give admittance to a thought of fear. Shak.

Hostile. [R.] Southey.

e it for us all if we bore prosperity as well and wisely as we endure an adverse fortune. Southey. Adverse possession (Law), a possession of real property avowedly contrary to some claim of title in another person. Abbott.