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northward, adv., n., and a.|ˈnɔːθwəd|
Forms: 1 norðw(e)ard, 3–4 norþ-, 5 norþe-, 3– northward (6 Sc. -wart); 4 northe-, 5–6 northwarde.
[f. north + -ward: cf. MDu. nortwart, -wert, noort-, noordewaert.]
A. adv.
1. Towards the north; in a northern direction:
a. of motion or aspect.
a1100O.E. Chron. (MS. D) an. 1016, Ða Uhtred ᵹeahsode þis, þa forlet he his herᵹunge & efste norðweard. c1290Beket 1119 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 138 Al North-ward he drouȝ him furst, a-wei al fram þe se. 1338R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 207 Jon Northward him sped, his lond for to visite. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 57 Þanne þe see schedeþ norþward, and makeþ þe see Propontides. 1470–85Malory Arthur i. xi. 51 He had the hoost Northward..vnto the foreist of Bedegrayne. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 653 Making prouision to go Northwarde agaynst his aduerse faction. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iii. i. 79 To you The remnant Northward, lying off from Trent. 1682Dryden To Duchess of York 10 Love..wander'd northward to the verge of day. 1709Steele Tatler No. 93 ⁋5 He had a better Stomach when he moved Northward. 1784Johnson 12 July in Boswell, I am going Northward for a while. 1858G. W. Dasent in Oxford Ess. 193 Its doors look northward. 1878Gladstone Homer 61 From hence round to the Black Sea, passing east and northward.
b. of relative position.
c1384Chaucer H. Fame iii. 62 This hille, that Northewarde lay. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xv. xliii. (Bodl. MS.), Wiþin þese londes esteward is rodus and norþeward Cenode. c1420Palladius on Husb. i. 120 Northward in placis hoot; in placis colde, Southward. 1535Coverdale Ezek. xl. 44 There stode one also, besyde the east dore north warde. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. ii. i. 4 Bring me the fairest creature North-ward borne. 1612Capt. Smith Descr. Virg. Wks. (Arb.) 53 Thirty leagues Northward is a river not inhabited. 1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. vii. xvi. 25 Those that live 90 deg. from us Northward or Southward. 1885Manch. Exam. 9 Mar. 5/1 On the Downs northward of Brighton.
2. quasi-n. = next.
1864Tennyson En. Ard. 102 Ten miles to northward of the narrow port. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. V. 546 To northward of Bautzen forty miles.
B. n. That direction or part which lies to the north (of a place or thing).
1624in Capt. Smith's Wks. (Arb.) 337 A relation of a Discovery towards the Northward of Virginia. 1644Bulwer Chiron. 43 The hand..leapeing back to the Northward of the Body. 1702Lond. Gaz. No. 3831/3 Two Men of War to the Northward of the Fleet gave him Chase. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. iii. 147 To fit up the boats..and to proceed with them to the northward. 1820W. Scoresby Acc. Arctic Reg. II. 208 Some ships have sailed to the northward of the seventy-eight degree of latitude. 1864Tennyson Aylmer's F. 415 The tall pines That darken'd all the northward of her Hall. 1880Haughton Phys. Geogr. iii. 126 The vapour..flows to the northward and southward.
C. adj. That moves or looks northward; extending or situated towards the north.
Not historically connected with OE. norð(e)weard or norðanweard.
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. iii. 13 When your owne Percy..Threw many a Northward looke. 1622Drayton Poly-olb. xxiv. 28 Whence Lestershire she leaves upon the Northward side. 1707Lond. Gaz. No. 4395/3 The Northward Part of the Goodwin Sands. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxv. (1856) 200 The observations which I noted during our northward drift. 1892Lee Hist. Columb. II. 222 In 1868, the northward growth of the city began to be notable. |