Word Meanings - SOUTHNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point toward the south pole. Faraday.

Related words: (words related to SOUTHNESS)

• SOUTHSAY
  See SOOTHSAY
• MAGNETICIAN
  One versed in the science of magnetism; a magnetist.
• SOUTHWESTERLY
  To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• TOWARD; TOWARDS
  1. In the direction of; to. He set his face toward the wilderness. Num. xxiv. 1. The waves make towards'' the pebbled shore. Shak. 2. With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning. His eye shall be evil
• SOUTHREN
  Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.
• NEEDLESS
  1. Having no need. Weeping into the needless stream. Shak. 2. Not wanted; unnecessary; not requiste; as, needless labor; needless expenses. 3. Without sufficient cause; groundless; cuseless. "Needless jealousy." Shak. -- Need"less*ly,
• TOWARDS
  See TOWARD
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• MAGNETIC; MAGNETICAL
  1. Pertaining to the magnet; possessing the properties of the magnet, or corresponding properties; as, a magnetic bar of iron; a magnetic needle. 2. Of or pertaining to, or characterized by,, the earth's magnetism; as, the magnetic north;
• NEEDLESTONE
  Natrolite; -- called also needle zeolite.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
• TOWARDNESS
  Quality or state of being toward.
• POINTAL
  The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer.
• POINTED
  1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope.
• SOUTHSAYER
  See SOOTHSAYER
• NEEDLEWOMAN
  A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.
• SOUTH; SOUTHERLY
  the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old.
• POINT ALPHABET
  An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• TROIS POINT
  The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table.
• REAPPOINT
  To appoint again.
• DIAMAGNETIC
  Pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, diamagnetism; taking, or being of a nature to take, a position at right angles to the lines of magnetic force. See Paramagnetic. Diamagnetic attraction. See under Attraction.
• STANDPOINT
  A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
• DIAMAGNETICALLY
  In the manner of, or according to, diamagnetism.
• INTERPOINT
  To point; to mark with stops or pauses; to punctuate. Her sighs should interpoint her words. Daniel.