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Northern   /nˈɔrðərn/   Listen
Northern

adjective
1.
In or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line.  "Northern industry" , "Northern cities"
2.
Situated in or oriented toward the north.  Synonym: northerly.  "Going in a northerly direction"
3.
Coming from the north; used especially of wind.  Synonym: northerly.  "A northern snowstorm" , "The winds are northerly"
4.
Situated in or coming from regions of the north.  "Northern autumn colors"
noun
1.
A dialect of Middle English that developed into Scottish Lallans.



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... following is from Dasent's Popular Tales from the Norse and has long been a favorite with the younger children by reason of its remarkable compactness and its strong accumulative force. The Troll of northern stories is the Ogre of those farther south. The story has a closing formula which may often have been used for other stories as well. (For an opening verse formula see the note on "The Story of the Three Little Pigs," ...
— Children's Literature - A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes • Charles Madison Curry

... Navassa Island Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue Norfolk Island Northern Mariana ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... facto orthodox or the guardian of orthodoxy. Even this letter of Pelagius was not regarded as satisfactory. It was long before the Churches entered into communion with him; and even to the last, the northern sees of Italy refused. He ruled, unquietly enough, for four years; and died, leaving a memory free at least from simony, and honoured as a ...
— The Church and the Barbarians - Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 • William Holden Hutton

... not much expect to fall in with anything worthy of our attention until we were pretty close up with the Line; we therefore carried on all through the first night and the whole of the next day, arriving by sunset upon the northern boundary of what we considered our cruising ground proper. And then, as ill-luck would have it, the wind died away, and left us rolling helplessly upon a long, glassy swell, without steerage-way, the schooner's head boxing the compass. This period ...
— The Pirate Slaver - A Story of the West African Coast • Harry Collingwood

... The northern desert and the whispering groves, Sole witnesses of their lament, As thus they passed away! And their neglected corpses, as they lay Upon that horrid sea of snow exposed, Were by the beasts consumed; The memories ...
— The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi • Giacomo Leopardi


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