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ˈsouthland
Also south land, south-land.
[OE. súðland (see south adv. and land n.1), = ON. suðrland, Du. zuidland, G. südland.]
1. A land lying in or towards the south. Now arch. or poet.
c1000ælfric Gen. xxiv. 62 He eardode soðlice on þam suðlandum. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiv. ii. (Bodl. MS.), Men of souþe londes beþ contrarye to men of norþe londes in stature. 1535Coverdale Judg. i. 15 Thou hast geuen me a south & drye londe. 1611Bible Josh. xv. 19 Thou hast giuen mee a South-land, giue me also springs of water. 1868Morris Earthly Par. (1870) II. iii. 335 In a strange land and barren, far removed From southlands and their bliss. 1890Doyle White Company viii, Yet the king hath given me a living here in the southlands.
2. The southern part of a country or district; the South; † the southern bank.
c1100O.E. Chron. (MS. D) an. 1052, Hy..heoldan þurh þa brycge aa bi þæm suþlande. c1205Lay. 2111 Þat suð lond þat æfter him Locres wes icleped. Ibid. 3741 Scottlondes kinge..hehte þane duc stronge heriȝen in suð londe. 1382Wyclif Josh. xi. 16 So Josue took al..the south loond, and Gosen. c1470Henry Wallace ix. 1308 Till the south land with glaid hartis thai socht. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) II. 21 Mony wther wastland men and clans of the southtland. 1849J. G. Whittier in National Era 1 Nov. 174/4 The South land hath its fields of cane, The Prairie boasts its heavy grain. 1872Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 1161 Baken meats and good red wine Of Southland. 1899Mackail W. Morris I. 261 To get back into the Southland without again traversing the wilderness. 1905Florida Times-Union 7 May ii. 8/1 Yet is this place rich in its treasured holdings of art, its clustered memories and traditions of the Old South or the southland of ante-bellum days. 1956G. P. Kurath in A. F. C. Wallace Men & Cultures (1960) 153 The Charleston, after seething in the Southland as a Negro round dance, was discovered in 1923. 1974P. McCutchan Call for Simon Shard iv. 32 He entered the Southland..unofficially, no fanfares, no men from Canberra. 1978Guardian Weekly 1 Oct. 9/1, I believe in the Southland... I believe in the people from South Carolina..and I believe in the people of Georgia.
3. attrib. or as adj. Also Southland beech = silver beech s.v. silver n. and a. 21 e, in reference to the region of New Zealand on the west coast of the South Island.
c1470Henry Wallace i. 442 Thir Southland hors latt se gif I can ride. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 348 Money southland men..appeillit wther in barras to fight in singular battell. a1670Spalding Troub. Chas. I (1850) II. 337 Quhilk wold give the Southland men aneuche ado. a1724in Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1876) I. 192 A Southland Jenny..Had for a suitor norland Jonny. 1813Hogg Queen's Wake, Introd. (1814) 9 Her ringlets pale Wide waving in the southland gale. 1819Scott Leg. Montrose iv, Southland though they be, they'll scarce eat up all the cattle. 1873Morris Love is enough 61 Of many such tales..the Southland folk told us. 1947J. C. S. Brough Timbers for Woodwork xvi. 138 Imported beeches are..Red beech..and Southland, or ‘Silver’ beech. 1966G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. Austral. & N.Z. viii. 166 The Southland beech is not really a beech.
Hence ˈsouthlander, a southerner.
1823Scoresby Jrnl. p. xxxi, A Southlander..wintered at the colony in the year 1757. 1827Scott Two Drovers ii, ‘May good betide us,’ said the Southlander. 1860(title), The Southlanders, an account of an expedition to the interior of New Holland. |