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Webster 1913 Edition


Southness

South′ness

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

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southness

southness

English

Noun

southness (countable and uncountable, plural southnesses)

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