adv., sb. and a. [f. SOUTH-EAST + -WARD.]
A. adv. In a south-easterly direction; towards the south-east.
1528. in Froude, Hist. Eng. (1856), II. 63. Master Garret … fled in a tawny coat south-eastward.
1591. G. Fletcher, Russe Commw., 65 b. The Chrim Tartar … that lieth South, and Southeastward from Russia.
1725. De Foe, Voy. round World (1840), 230. Most of those rivers ran rather south-eastward than northward.
1845. Encycl. Metrop., VI. 584. The strata sink with a very regular inclination Eastward or South-Eastward.
1896. Baden-Powell, Matabele Campaign, xiv. 348. Making its own way south-eastward towards the Belingwe district.
B. sb. The south-east quarter or direction.
1555. Eden, Decades (Arb.), 381. To the Southeastwarde, lyeth a hed lande. Ibid. To the southeastwarde of that rocke.
1820. Scoresby, Acc. Arctic Reg., II. 345. They had rowed many hours to the south-eastward.
1860. Merc. Marine Mag., VII. 172. The Osprey Reef and some others to the south-eastward are quite out of the way.
1884. Bedford, Sailor’s Handbk., 146. Vessels … would do well to stand boldly to the south-eastward with these winds.
C. adj. Situated towards or leading to the south-east.
1766. Entick, London, IV. 60. The arms of London [are] on the south-eastward pillar.
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., I. 550. In a southeastward direction.
So South-eastwards adv.
1879. Geikie, in Encycl. Brit., X. 366/1. They [sc. striæ] run … eastwards or south-eastwards across the lower grounds of Sweden.
1897. Mary Kingsley, W. Africa, 407. The Ogowé’s chief affluent, the Nguni, cuts through it again from Samba south-eastwards.
