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Northern

adjective

In or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line. "Northern industry" , "Northern cities" Antonym: southern.

Situated in or oriented toward the north. Synonym: northerly. "Going in a northerly direction"

Coming from the north; used especially of wind. Synonym: northerly. "A northern snowstorm" , "The winds are northerly"

Situated in or coming from regions of the north. "Northern autumn colors" Antonym: southern.

noun

A dialect of Middle English that developed into Scottish Lallans.

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"Northern" Quotes from Famous Books

... said Holmes, in his blandest voice. "This northern air is invigorating and pleasant, so I propose to spend a few days upon your moors, and to occupy my mind as best I may. Whether I have the shelter of your roof or of the village inn is, of course, for ...

— The Return of Sherlock Holmes • Arthur Conan Doyle

... themselves shortly after her return to England. Notice of them will find a more appropriate place in another chapter. All that is necessary here is the very portion which was then suppressed, but which Godwin later included with the "Letters to Imlay." The northern trip had at least this good result. It strengthened her physically. She was so weak when she first arrived in Sweden that the day she landed she fell fainting to the ground as she walked to her carriage. For a while everything fatigued ...

— Mary Wollstonecraft • Elizabeth Robins Pennell

... of honor, butterfly bright; the slim, Italianate youths, fantastically foppish; the smooth, eager priesthood; the soldiers weary of ceremonial but indifferent to fatigue; the sturdy bulk, blue eyes, and yellow hair of the Northern Guards. They paid no heed to Robert, standing there below them; their glances were all for the open portal of the church and its ...

— The Proud Prince • Justin Huntly McCarthy

... mention of this body of water appears on some old Icelandic charts that show, roughly, Cape Cod Bay in their southern areas and the Bay of Fundy in the northern. On these maps the cape itself was shown on the "Promontory of Vinland" and was given the name Kialarnes, or the Ship's Nose, from its resemblance in form to the high upturned prow of the old Norse ships. To the entire area of the gulf was given the ...

— Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine • Walter H. Rich

... p. 56.).—The "fleur de lis" was made the ornament of the northern radius of the mariner's compass in compliment to Charles of Anjou (whose device it was), the reigning king of Sicily, at the time when Flavio Gioja, the Neapolitan, first ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 58, December 7, 1850 • Various

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