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Definition of Southeasterly
1. Adjective. Coming from the southeast. "Southeasterly breezes"
2. Adjective. Situated in or oriented toward the southeast.
Definition of Southeasterly
1. Adjective. situated in, or pointing to, the southeast ¹
2. Adjective. (chiefly of a wind) coming from the southeast ¹
3. Noun. A strong wind or storm from the southeast. ¹
4. Adverb. From the southeast. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Southeasterly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Southeasterly
Literary usage of Southeasterly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"... between the southeasterly end of Washington Street, in the City of Toledo,
Lucas County, Ohio ; thence northwesterly alone Washington Street to the ..."
2. The New York Red Book (1897)
"11 Beginning at the intersection of the center line of R >dney s'reet and Broadway,
running thence southeasterly along the center line of Broadway to the ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"BREEDE, a river in Cape Colony, which rises in the Warm-Bokkeveld, and flows
chiefly in a southeasterly ..."
4. Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: Being a Journal of an by Heinrich Barth (1859)
"GREAT SOUTH-southeasterly REACH. AT length, in the course of the 8th, my protector
returned from his herd of camels, or, as the Arabs call it, ..."
5. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, Connecticut Council, James Hammond Trumbull, Council of Safety (Conn.), Charles Jeremy Hoadly (1885)
"about three rods southeasterly from the old meeting-house in said society, the
sills of such new meeting-house to include the place where said stake is set; ..."
6. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, Connecticut Council, Council of Safety (Conn.)., James Hammond Trumbull, Charles Jeremy Hoadly (1881)
"... then southeasterly with said dividing line to Stonington north line, then
southerly including the land of John Prentice and Amos Brown, and from thence ..."
7. Supplement to Second Edition of Kerr's Cyclopedic California Codes by James Manford Kerr (1922)
"... thence along the center of said alley southeasterly one hundred feet; thence
southwesterly along lot line one hundred sixty-five feet to the center of I ..."
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