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uth; situated in, or proceeding from, the south; situated or proceeding toward the south. Southern Cross (Astron.), a constellation of the southern hemisphere containing several bright stars so related in position as to resemble a cross. -- Southern Fish (Astron.), a constelation of the southern hemisphere (Piscis Aus…

An inhabitant or native of the south, esp. of the Southern States of North America; opposed to Northerner.

Southerliness.

Somewhat southern. -- adv.

Farthest south.

A shrubby species of wormwood (Artemisia Abrotanum) having aromatic foliage. It is sometimes used in making beer.

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.

Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.

light, and are often seen at great distances from the land. They are found chiefly in the southern hemisphere.

o pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South America.

A fish of the southern Atlantic coast (Seriola Carolinensis.)

A kind of viper in southern Europe. [Obs.]

A genus of amphibians, inhabiting the Southern United States, having a serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake.

or ortive: at the setting, it is western, occiduous, or occasive. It is also northern or southern, when north or south of the equator.

An aquatic bird of the southern United States (Platus anhinga); the darter, or snakebird.

Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23º 28min. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.

The Altar; a southern constellation, south of the tail of the Scorpion.

A large constellation in the southern hemisphere, called also Argo Navis. In modern astronomy it is replaced by its three divisions, Carina, Puppis, and Vela.

A genus of plants including the plants called mugwort, southernwood, and wormwood. Of these A. absinthium, or common wormwood, is well known, and A. tridentata is the sage brush of the Rocky Mountain region.

Naja haje. The name is also applied to other poisonous serpents, esp. to Vipera aspis of southern Europe. See Haje.