north and southadv.adj.n.

eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) Pref. 9 Siððan min on Englisc Ælfred kyning awende worda gehwelc, & me his writerum sende suð & norð.]

lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1124 Of þa oðre swa fela swa him þuhte he sende norð & suð to hise casteles on heftnunge.

c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 921 Ac ich fare boþe norþ & soþ; In eauer euch londe ich am cuuþ.

c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame 2075 Thus north and south Wente every tydyng fro mouth to mouth.

1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) i. 140 That thai ar..hareit north and south.

c1390 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 948 Forth gooth hir ship thurgh out the narwe mouth Of Iubaltare and Septe dryuyng ay Somtyme west and somtyme north and south.

1449 in Cal. Proc. Chancery Queen Elizabeth (1830) II. Pref. 54 The same hous by ground shall have a parclose walle, strecchyng along north and south duryng the seid length of lxvj fete.

?c1475 in J. Gairdner Sailing Direct. (1889) 11 (MED) Fro Vamborugh to the poynt of the Ilond the cours lieth north and South.

1612 J. Smith Map of Virginia 2 This Bay lieth North and South.

a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §249 260 Whom though they accounted an heretick, yet buried they him in the church-yard, north and south.

1720 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1906) VII. 169 A certain Chapell..which he plac'd North and South, in opposition to all other Churches and Chapells.

1829 A. Thompson Sacred Drama Pref. 3 The site is rendered somewhat romantic by a high, uncultivated ridge a few hundred rods east, running north and south.

a1862 H. D. Thoreau Cape Cod (1865) x. 250 The coast from Cape Disappointment..to Cape Flattery..is nearly north and south.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 762/2 The communion table..is placed altar-wise—that is, with its longer axis running north and south, and close against the east wall.

1965 R. F. Hugo Death of Kapowsin Tavern 51 A blond road north and south And no man will improve it with macadam.

2001 N.Y. Times 13 May xi. 5/2 Yorktown is home to..five miles of the 22-mile North County Trailway bike and pedestrian path, which runs north and south in the county.

1668 Duchess of Newcastle Grounds Nat. Philos. (ed. 2) xiii. v. 225 Who knows, but the North and South Air may be the most proper Air for the Respiration of the Loadstone.

1758 Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 202 On the north and south side, are two narrow windows or air-loops.

1832 J. F. Cooper Heidenmauer I. Introd. p. xv A line of mountains..passes nearly through the centre of the district, in a north and south course.

1839 Penny Cycl. XIV. 288/1 The deviation of which from the true north-and-south line is the declination of the needle.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 415/1 The north and south line dividing the wheat product of the United States into two equal parts was..drawn along the 82nd meridian.

1950 Amer. Econ. Rev. 40 116 The trunk lines refused to continue the practice of building up north-and-south interterritorial traffic.

1991 UNIX Rev. Sept. 30/2 Fiber connects Ethernet segments on the north and south side of each floor with..network backbones.

1858 A. Mayhew Paved with Gold ii. x. 169 ‘I'll smash your “glass case”, and damage your “north and south”,’ roared Bill.

1928 M. C. Sharpe Chicago May 287/2 North and South, mouth.

1958 F. Norman Bang to Rights 36 Dust floating about in the air, which gets in your north and south.

1986 T. Barling Smoke xxiii. 516 Grass grows in parks, not in my north and south.