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adjective

Northern adj.

Of or pertaining to the north; being in the north, or nearer to that point than to the east or west.

In a direction toward the north; as, to steer a northern course; coming from the north; as, a northern wind.

Northern diver. (Zool.) See Loon.

Northern lights. See Aurora borealis, under Aurora.

Northern spy (Bot.), an excellent American apple, of a yellowish color, marked with red.

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Etymology of 'Northern'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Northern" Quotes from Famous Books

... of this long debate, Mr. Clay said some things to which the late war has given a new interest. He knew, at last, what the fire-eaters meant. He perceived now that it was not the few abhorred Abolitionists of the Northern States from whom danger to the Union was to be apprehended. On one occasion allusion was made to a South Carolina hot-head, who had publicly proposed to raise the flag of disunion. Thunders of applause broke from the galleries ...

— Famous Americans of Recent Times • James Parton

... pace of sixty miles an hour. (Loud laughter.) What would the poor benighted travellers of those days say to their present Grand Circular Express, that ran from London to York in two-and-twenty minutes, and ran up to the most northern point in Scotland, then down the Western Coast to Land's End, and back again to London all along the Channel Shore, doing the entire circuit in four hours and a quarter, and this while you reclined ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 22nd, 1890 • Various

... the wolves on Orca's stormy steep, Howl to the roarings of the northern deep: Such is the shout, the long applauding note, At Quin's high plume, or Oldfield's petticoat: Or when from court a birth-day suit bestow'd Sinks the last actor in the tawdry load. Booth enters—hark! the universal peal!— ...

— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele

... finer and bigger in the photograph than it really is," she told them. "It's only a bandbox of a thing compared with Coucy or Pierrefonds or any of the northern ones. It was built, you know, like the Cathedral at Bayonne, when the Plantagenets still held that country, but after they were practically pretty near English, and both the chateau and the Gothic cathedral seem queer aliens among the southern natives. ...

— The Brimming Cup • Dorothy Canfield Fisher

... the northern bank a windmill loomed dark against the horizon; a round brick building, like a big pepper-castor, with four great arms looking like crossed combs. A rough track led to it from the main road. Within, ...

— Captain Jim • Mary Grant Bruce

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