norther (nor THer)

[ IMG:content-1452.png:[blocks in formation] The condition of "dead drunk ne ," which few even of Contemporary LIII. "In other words, your parents object to an alliance with my family because we are of Northern birth," said the Fool. "Not exactly; not so much because you are North erners, as because you are not Southerners." Tourgée, Fool's Errand, xliii. northernlyt (nôr'Thern-li), adv . Toward the north. These [constellations] Northernely are seene. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 60. northernmost (nôr'THėrn-mōst), a . [ north ern + -most.] Situated at the point furthest north. northern-spell (nor' THern-spel), n. A corruption of nur- and - spell. A strong or cold northerly wind.-2. A vio northing (nor thing), n. [Verbal n. of worth, lent cold north wind blowing, mainly in win.] 1. The distance of a planet from the equa ter, over Texas and the Gulf of Mexico. A norther is always preceded by the pa age of a cyclone, of which, in fact, it is the rear part. On the east side of a cyclone prevail warm, moist, southerly winds, while on the west side the winds are northerly. In the winter, when the temperature gradient from the Gulf of Mexico northward over Texas is very steep, the northerly winds following the pa age of the center of a cyclone at times blow over this region with great fury, producing a very sudden and great fall of temperature. Over the Gulf, northers often cause wrecks in the Bay of Campeachy, on a lee shore. Sometimes, instead of changing, the preceding wind dies entirely away, dead, oppre ive, suffocating calm the descending Norther. star. nouns. Proc. Amer. A . Adv . Sci . , XIX. 99. This storm may be known as the Blizzard of the Northwest, the Chinook of the Northern Plateau, the Norther of the Southern Slope and Texas, or the Simoon of the Des ert. Jour. Franklin Inst., CXXI. 247. northering (nor'Ther-ing), a. [ north (north), adv . [ And west, nort , & south, Euery man, bot he fremyd & kouth, Xul [shall] comyn with-outyn ly. Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 249. Our army is dispersed already: n. of North Carolina.