Southerly is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SOUTHERLY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a southerly wind
• a wind blowing from the south
• a wind from the south
• wind from the south
ADVERB:
• towards the south
ADJECTIVE:
• from the south
• in a southward position or direction
• (of a wind) blowing from the south
• of or in the south
• Southern.
• situated in or oriented toward the south
• from the south; used especially of wind
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• situated toward or belonging to the south

Words related to SOUTHERLY

southerlies14 southerliness16

How to use SOUTHERLY in a sentence

• The boys, James and Milton, had been putting a load of charcoal under cover, for the wind was southerly and there were signs of rain.
• John and almost to the southerly extremity of the British claim, extravagant as it is.
• Mary, west to Chocolate River, on Lake Superior, and thence southerly to Green Bay.
• The country south and west of us was low and flat, consisting of marshes, extending in a southerly direction more than thirty miles.
• This afternoon it fell almost calm, but the sky clouded over again and now there is a gentle warm southerly breeze with light falling snow and an overcast sky.
• There is an annoying little southerly wind blowing now, and this serves to show the beauty of our snow walls.
• A very slight southerly breeze, from which the walls protect the animals well.
• There has been a nice helpful southerly breeze all day, a clear sky and comparatively warm temperature.
• At noon we entered Connecticut, the most southerly of the New England states.
• And now we sailed southerly, living sparingly on our provisions, and went no oftener on shore than we were obliged for fresh water.
• I then attempted a southerly march to Wrangel Island, but found such a course impracticable on account of northerly drift of ice.
• Spofforth and Warrup, we had the satisfaction to find the feet-marks of five men on the sand, taking a southerly direction.
• Coming from Spain they had sailed more southerly than we had done before them.
• The flax was found growing spontaneously in fields of inexhaustible extent along the more southerly shores of the islands.
• The trees stormed and whistled in the southerly wind that blew from across Merrow Downs.
• Some forty miles south of Cochuta we turned in a southerly direction, ascending a hilly plateau 3,200 feet above sea-level.
• The main building line is withdrawn from the lower, or southerly front, to extend the facade on that side.
• After remaining here three days, we departed on our voyage, sailing in a southerly direction.
• Leaving Lizard Island, we continued our southerly route, and ere long saw more land ahead, lying like a blue cloud on the horizon.
• Following the latter, being the largest, we found that it soon curved round, taking a southerly direction.
• On the 29th the ship was taken under my guidance up the river, as far as the commencement of the long southerly reach.
• Toward the middle of the month strong southerly winds, with rainy and unsettled weather, prevailed, particularly at the change of the moon.
• The bar extends about four or five miles from the mouth of the river, in a southerly direction, but is by no means known.
• We were obliged to turn southerly for a short distance, and found what we had fancied to be a river to be only a small creek.
• Thereupon, accepting the situation in his imperturbable way, he arranged to move, on May 7, by the left flank southerly towards Spottsylvania.
• When next evening the north wind died away there came an easterly breeze, followed by a stiff southerly gale, which made him change his mind again.
• In May the southerly winds set in and blow very strong on the north side of the island, but fair.
• A change of wind came within five hours after a southerly slant brought his ships to anchor in Gibraltar bay for water and provisions.
• At last there came a prospect of release in the shape of thick weather, and a southerly gale setting on the Norwegian coast.

Similar words containing SOUTHER without suffix ly

souther10 southern11 southers11 southered13 southerns12 southering14 southerner13 southernly16 southerlies14 southermost16 southerners14 southernise14 southernism16 southernize23 southernised16 southernises15 southernisms17 southernized25 southernizes24 southernmost17 southernness15 southernwood19 southerliness16 southernising17 southernizing26 southernwoods20 southernnesses17 southerlinesses18

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