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

The southwest wind. Milton.

w the assault. Prescott. Unshaken bears the assault Of their most dreaded foe, the strong southwest. Wordsworth.

One who works a mine with means provided by another. [Sp. Amer. & Southwestern U. S.]

soil-renewing crop in the alkaline soils of the Nile valley, and now introduced into the southwestern United States. It is more succulent than other clovers or than alfalfa. Called also Egyptian clover.

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.

The Osage orange. [Southwestern U.S.]

double-edged near the point; -- used as a hunting knife, and formerly as a weapon in the southwestern part of the United States. It was named from its inventor, Colonel James Bowie. Also, by extension, any large sheath knife.

Orig., at Sydney, a cold and violent south or southwest wind, rising suddenly, and regularly preceded by a hot wind from the north; -- now usually called southerly buster. It blew across the Brickfields, formerly so called, a district of Sydney, and carried clouds of dust into the city.

ure of varying size. In Cuba it is about 33 acres; in Porto Rico, about 194 acres; in the Southwestern United States, about 108 acres.

Partnership; as to go in cahoot with a person. [Slang, southwestern U. S.] Bartlett.

To head or point; to keep a course; as, the ship capes southwest by south.

Leggings. [Mex. & Southwestern U. S.]

uring horses and cattle in an inclosure of wagons while traversing the plains, but in the Southwestern United States now colloquially applied to the capturing, securing, or penning of anything. Bartlett.

ally, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States.