Souther v.

[f. SOUTH adv. + -ER.⁵.] intr. To shift, turn or fly to the south; of the wind, to south or southern.

1628–9.  Digby, Voyage Medit. (Camden), 89. The wind … towardes night … did souther a litle.

c. 1800.  H. K. White, Clifton Grove, 237. When the wild duck, southering, hither rides.

1886.  Field, 25 Sept., 452/1. On chance of the wind southering.

  Hence Southering ppl. a.

1870.  Morris, Earthly Par. (1870), II. III. 278. The well-fenced vine, Whose clusters hung upon the southering side Of the fair hill.

1893.  Leisure Hour, Sept., 706. The long fair grass-tufts which the sun in southering glory looked upon.