1574 T. Newton tr. G. Gratarolo Direct. Health Magistrates & Studentes 25 In winter and beginninge of the Springe, and Northernly seasons [L. borealibus..temporibus].

1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Sept. Gloss. f. 39 Northernly.

a1657 W. Burton Comm. Antoninus his Itinerary (1658) 37 The frequent inrodes of the more Northernly Britains, called the Picts.

1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. ii. viii. f. 184 By taking his saide declination because it is Northernly, out of his Meridian altitude.

1675 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 10 Ep. Ded. p. i Giving us a better account of the more Northernly Countries than yet we have had.

1703 J. Savage tr. Select Coll. Lett. Antients xxxix. 101 You have travell'd from the more Northernly Nations, even to our Region.

1838 J. H. Ingraham Burton I. i. iii. 58 [He] followed his guide, who, starting off at a gallop, rode rapidly in a northernly direction.

1893 Academy 25 Nov. 467/2 In Yezo, a northernly island of Japan.

1960 Bot. Gaz. 121 232/1 In contrast to this seeming correlation of basswood reproduction with high soil temperature [is]..its generally northernly distribution.

1994 Systematic Biol. 19 326/1 Radiations of other sections occurred in more northernly areas, such as section Collandra in Colombia and southern Panama.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iii. 94 Storme-sted with Northernely [1614 Northerly] winds.

1708 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 26 155 They were fatigued with the severe Rain and Sleet that fell, attended with a cold Northernly Wind.

1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions ii. v. f. 130^v Amonge honest substantial Trafiquers, and namely of those that dwell Northernely.

1594 T. Blundeville Exercises vi. xxx. f. 300^v Euery degree of any of the southerne signes riseth Southernly, and not Northernly.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 60 These [constellations] Northernely are seene.

1652 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio Hist. Relations Flanders 87 Islands..which are seated so far Northernly.

1847 Commerc. Rev. South & West Dec. 542 On the poorer soils, the crop begins to be collected about the middle of September, but from those of the richer and more northernly situated soils, not until November and December.

1875 Z. A. Mudge Arctic Heroes 69 Having passed the southern cape of Greenland, and coasting northernly, they were soon ice-locked.

1939 Ecology 20 461 The wood frog is the most northernly distributed of our eastern frogs.

1971 Ecology 52 250/2 A. carolinensis is the most northernly distributed species of this very large tropical genus.

1987 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 23 Sept. a1 We think it's [sc. a hurricane] going to turn more northernly and head out to sea and never affect the United States.

c1576 T. Whythorne Autobiogr. (1961) 89 Hee spāk þe wordz norþernly, bekawz hee waz A norþern man.

1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. May 177 Gloss. The Gate, the Gote: Northernely spoken.

1632 R. Brome Northern Lasse ii. i And sings, and speaks so pretty Northernly they say.

1857 Harper's Mag. Dec. 132/2 Alexander was northernly severe and reserved; Napoleon buoyant and prudently gracious.

1966 M. Wilding in Coast to Coast 1965–6 253 He blinked and said, Oh, I'm sorry, northernly.

1679 T. Oates True Narr. Horrid Plot 48 If the wind blew northernly.

a1748 T. Brerewood Seasons (1799) iv. 8 Bleak the winds northernly blow.