Definition: south

Source: WordNet (r) 1.7

south
     adj : situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the
           south; "the south entrance" [ant: north]
     n 1: the region of the United States lying south of the
          Mason-Dixon line [syn: South]
     2: the 11 southern states that seceded from the United States
        in 1861 [syn: Confederacy, Confederate States of
        America, South, Dixie, Dixieland]
     3: the cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees [syn: due
        south, S]
     4: any region lying in or toward the south [syn: South, southland]
     adv : in a southern direction; "we moved south" [syn: South, to
           the south, in the south]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

South \South\, adv.
   1. Toward the south; southward.

   2. From the south; as, the wind blows south. --Bacon.

South \South\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Southed; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Southing.]
   1. To turn or move toward the south; to veer toward the
      south.

   2. (Astron.) To come to the meridian; to cross the north and
      south line; -- said chiefly of the moon; as, the moon
      souths at nine.

South \South\ (?; by sailors sou), n. [OE. south, su[thorn], AS.
   s[=u][eth] for sun[eth]; akin to D. zuid, OHG. sund, G.
   s["u]d, s["u]den, Icel. su[eth]r, sunnr, Dan. syd, s["o]nden,
   Sw. syd, s["o]der, sunnan; all probably akin to E. sun,
   meaning, the side towards the sun. [root]297. See Sun.]
   1. That one of the four cardinal points directly opposite to
      the north; the region or direction to the right or
      direction to the right of a person who faces the east.

   2. A country, region, or place situated farther to the south
      than another; the southern section of a country. ``The
      queen of the south.'' --Matt. xii. 42.

   3. Specifically: That part of the United States which is
      south of Mason and Dixon's line. See under Line.

   4. The wind from the south. [Obs.] --Shak.

South \South\, a.
   Lying toward the south; situated at the south, or in a
   southern direction from the point of observation or
   reckoning; proceeding toward the south, or coming from the
   south; blowing from the south; southern; as, the south pole.
   ``At the south entry.'' --Shak.

   South-Sea tea (Bot.) See Yaupon.

Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

South
   Heb. Negeb, that arid district to the south of Palestine through
   which lay the caravan route from Central Palestine to Egypt
   (Gen. 12:9; 13:1, 3; 46:1-6). "The Negeb comprised a
   considerable but irregularly-shaped tract of country, its main
   portion stretching from the mountains and lowlands of Judah in
   the north to the mountains of Azazemeh in the south, and from
   the Dead Sea and southern Ghoron the east to the Mediterranean
   on the west." In Ezek. 20:46 (21:1 in Heb.) three different
   Hebrew words are all rendered "south." (1) "Set thy face toward
   the south" (Teman, the region on the right, 1 Sam. 33:24); (2)
   "Drop thy word toward the south" (Negeb, the region of dryness,
   Josh. 15:4); (3) "Prophesy against the forest of the south
   field" (Darom, the region of brightness, Deut. 33:23). In Job
   37:9 the word "south" is literally "chamber," used here in the
   sense of treasury (comp. 38:22; Ps. 135:7). This verse is
   rendered in the Revised Version "out of the chamber of the
   south."