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Southest, adv., n. and adj. Also: southe-, southt-, souht-, sowth-, sowtht-, soith-, suth- and -este, -eist, -east. [ME and e.m.E. souþest (1297), south est (14th c.), sowthe este (a1450), southeast (1548), OE súðéast.]
A. adv. To the south-east, in a south-easterly direction. Also quasi-prep. c1475 Wall. ix 62.
The ship master on to the top he went; Sowthest he saw … Saxten salis arayit all on raw c1515 Asl. MS I 163/1.
South est fra it is the ile of Alathim 1577 Reg. Great S. 733/2.
Fra the said furde passand southeist as the commoun gait gangis 1588 Lanark B. Rec. 92.
Passand … fra that stain suith est the gait to the merche stain
B. noun. The south-east. c1550 Lynd. Meldrum 707.
He lay bot ane day in the raid, Quhill he gat wind of the southeist 1551 Sutherland Chart. in Orig. Par. II ii 712.
Versus subsolanum vulgo suyth eist a1595 Cullen Chron. Aberd. 44.
On Furisday … it blow at the soithest of woynd and weytt
C. adj. Situated in the south-east; south-eastern, -easterly. 1466 (1471) Reg. Great S. 214/2.
Fra the said southeste furde strikand north [etc.] c1515 Asl. MS I 163/8.
The ile of Suphe that is in the south est part of the warld c1508 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III 127.
The litle haugh lyand … on the suthest syd of the corn fauld 1519 Reg. Episc. Aberd. II 178.
The southtest tovir witht Item ane standane bed 1530 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 42.
For the down taking of … the chapel ruyf … quhar the southeist round of the tour restis 1539–41 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 280.
To the capitanis sowtht est cungȝe of his foir chalmer 1549 Prot. Bk. Sir J. Cristisone 101.
One the souhtest bank off the said burne 1573 Sc. Ant. XIII 31.
For the southest quarter, William Hailaw [etc.] 1605 Edinb. B. Rec. VI 10.
The kirks of the sowtheist and sowthwest quarteris 16… Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. II 218.
Ane arme of the sea in the suth and sutheast syde of it called Loch Jern, wher ships may saflie venter
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