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▪ I. northerly, a.|ˈnɔːðəlɪ|
[f. north; cf. easterly, westerly.]
1. Situated towards the north; northern.
1551Recorde Cast. Knowl. (1556) 263 The one sorte are called Northerlye constellations. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 17 In colde and Northerlye Countreys. 1624Capt. Smith Virginia v. 174 In the height of thirty degrees of Northerly latitude. 1671J. Gailhard Pres. St. Italy (ed. 2) 196 Northerly people do blame the wayes which they [Italians] use to be avenged. 1730A. Gordon Maffei's Amphith. 323 The northerly Circus in Constantinople. 1776Semple Building in Water 39, I then stood on the northerly Part of the Bridge. 1862J. M. Ludlow Hist. U.S. 105 Faster..on the more Northerly than on the more Southerly parallels. 1880Geikie Phys. Geog. iv. 182 The most northerly swell of the Rocky Mountains.
fig.1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. ii. i, A..smooth and overflowing face that Seems as it would run and pour itself into you: Somewhat a northerly face.
2. Of the wind: Blowing from the northward.
1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 382 We mette northerly wyndes and greate roostynge of tydes. 1602Shakes. Ham. v. ii. 99 Beleeue mee 'tis very cold, the winde is Northerly. 1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 197 The sharp Easterly and Northerly Winds transpierce, and dry them up. 1702Lond. Gaz. No. 3835/3 The Wind proving Northerly.., they stood..to the Westward. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. i. 115 The northerly winds seldom blow in that climate. 1840Marryat Olla Podr. III. 19 All the winds which have northerly in them are coarse. 1878Markham Gt. Frozen Sea v. 60 We encountered a fresh northerly wind dead in our teeth.
▪ II. northerly, adv.|ˈnɔːðəlɪ|
[Cf. prec. and ON. norðarliga.]
To the northward; towards the north; on the north side.
1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. Prol. 66 Vthiris mair northirlie, nocht ȝit haue bene inhabited. 1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. 32 Scattered farre and wide.., both Northerly in Cataya, and Southerly to India. 1644Milton Educ. 3 We Englishmen being farre northerly. 1705W. Penn in Pa. Hist. Soc. Mem. X. 15, I would have the same county to be marked northerly by stones. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 304 We weighed and stood northerly along the shore. 1812Woodhouse Astron. xiii. 112 The star will be more northerly in the position E. 1845Stocqueler Handbk. Brit. India (1854) 18 As we proceed northerly, the climate becomes more temperate. |