Word Meanings - SOUTHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Related words: (words related to SOUTHER)

• SOUTHWEST
  The point of the compass equally from the south and the west; the southwest part or region.
• SOUTHSAY
  See SOOTHSAY
• SOUTHWESTERLY
  To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
• SOUTHPAW
  A pitcher who pitches with the left hand.
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• SOUTHREN
  Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.
• STORMING
  from Storm, v. Storming party , a party assigned to the duty of making the first assault in storming a fortress.
• STRONGYLOID
  Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious. -- n.
• STORM
  A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter and take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates, or the like. Note: Storm is often used in the formation of self-explained compounds; as, storm-presaging,
• SOUTHSAYER
  See SOOTHSAYER
• SOUTH; SOUTHERLY
  the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old.
• STRONGYLID
  Strongyloid.
• STORMGLASS
  A glass vessel, usually cylindrical, filled with a solution which is sensitive to atmospheric changes, indicating by a clouded appearance, rain, snow, etc., and by clearness, fair weather.
• SOUTHING
  Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude. (more info) 1. Tendency or progress southward; as, the southing of the sun. Emerson. 2. The time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian
• SOUTHERN
  A Southerner.
• SOUTHNESS
  A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point toward the south pole. Faraday.
• SOUTHEASTERN
  Of or pertaining to the southeast; southeasterly.
• SOUTHWESTWARD; SOUTHWESTWARDLY
  Toward the southwest.
• STRONG
  strong; akin to D. & G. streng strict, rigorous, OHG. strengi strong, brave, harsh, Icel. strangr strong, severe, Dan. streng, Sw. sträng 1. Having active physical power, or great physical power to act; having a power of exerting great bodily
• STORMINESS
  The state of being stormy; tempestuousness; biosteruousness; impetuousness.
• HEADSTRONG
  1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn;
• HEADSTRONGNESS
  Obstinacy. Gayton.
• EMPIRE STATE OF THE SOUTH
  Georgia; -- a nickname.
• SOUTHEAST
  The point of the compass equally distant from the south and the east; the southeast part or region.