Definitions for southing

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southing south·ing

Spelling: [sou-th ing]

IPA: /ˈsaʊ ðɪŋ/

Southing is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 307 anagrams from letters in southing (ghinostu).

Definitions for southing

noun

1. Astronomy. the transit of a heavenly body across the celestial meridian. south declination.
2. movement or deviation toward the south.
3. distance due south made by a vessel.
4. a cardinal point of the compass lying directly opposite north. Abbreviation: S.
5. the direction in which this point lies.
6. (usually initial capital letter) a region or territory situated in this direction.
7. the South, the general area south of Pennsylvania and the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi, consisting mainly of those states that formed the Confederacy.

adverb

1. to, toward, or in the south.
2. Informal. into a state of serious decline, loss, or the like:

adjective

1. lying toward or situated in the south; directed or proceeding toward the south.
2. coming from the south, as a wind.

verb (used without object)

1. to turn or move in a southerly direction.
2. Astronomy. to cross the meridian.

Origin of southing

First recorded in 1650-60; south + -ing¹

Examples for southing

I remember once, she was down on Central Avenue with Ross and he did southing or other that, wasn't nice.

I made what southing I could; but, all that time, we were beset by it.

It is so bright that, viewed through that tube, it must have been visible to the naked eye, even when southing in full daylight.

On the 31st, to my mortification, the river held so much to the northward, that we undid almost all our southing.

There was enough of southing in the wind, to make his last course nearly due south.

What southing do you allow our drift will be giving us, captain?

But after a few weeks of content the southing spirit again seized upon the old male who had hitherto been the unquestioned leader.

After the gale blew itself out, a fresh breeze succeeded, which enabled them rapidly to run down their southing.

With a southing wind blowing stiff from the icy Antarctic wastes, they “put it to her!”

southing, which will make the place of taking altitude for time 55.