单词 | northly |
释义 | northlyadj. Northern; northerly.In quot. eOE the noun modified by the adjective has not been included.Apparently unattested between the Old English period and the mid 16th cent. and again between the 17th and 19th centuries. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > North > [adjective] northwardeOE northlyeOE northOE northenc1175 northerna1225 septentrionalc1392 Septentrion1541 septentrial1542 northerly1556 norland1577 northernly1594 septentrionical1654 northwardly1676 septentrionic1829 eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 82 Boreali, þære norðlican. 1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Aiii The olde attempte for the Northlie Nauigations. 1587 G. Turberville Tragicall Tales f. 72v Those warlike wights That earst from Almaine came, And other northly parts besides. 1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xix. 8 To fortie three Degrees of North'ly Latitude. a1848 D. Granger Mem. in Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. (1930) 16 554 The river..turns in a Northly direction. 1877 Littell's Living Age 17 Feb. 409/1 I and Sigrida my sister, should lead the single cow they possessed about the northly water on horse-back. 1976 Science 1 Oct. 80/1 All other tidal components would have similar pressure amplitudes at the more northly location. 1977 H. Serruys tr. H. M. Chiu-pien k‘ao in Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 37 373 A-erh-t‘u-ssu left the River Bend, crossing the river in a northly direction. 2001 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 11 Aug. 28 A short walk on mainly bridle tracks and farm lanes along the northly lip of the Cotswold Escarpment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † northlyadv. Obsolete. In a northerly direction; northward.In quot. 1573 in northly and east: from approximately the direction of the north-east. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > North > [adverb] northeOE by northc893 northwardseOE northwardOE benorth1087 norwarda1450 northly1480 northerly1538 northernly1576 northenwards1591 at north1625 septentrionally1646 north-about1673 norwards1673 northernly1679 northwardly1726 anorth1807 north-away1820 northbound1867 up-along1908 1480 W. Worcester in J. Nasmith Itineraria (1778) 178 So contynewyth the seyd laane to the seyd kay northly. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry f. 51v But winde in the north, or else northely & east: to hop is..ill. 1643 William & Mary Q. (1899) 7 295 400 acres in the branch of Warwicksquicke river bounded northly on the back creek that p'teth it from the land of John Vasler. 1654 R. Vilvain tr. Enchiridium Epigr. iii. 74 Sevn Stars stand Northly in set clusters framed. 1742 in Bay State Monthly Oct. (1884) 17/2 It Comes to Townshend East Line then tur[n]ing & Runing Northly to Nestiquaset Corner. 1754 in C. E. Potter Hist. Manchester, New Hampsh. (1856) 291 Running northly upon said lisley land to a pine tree marked H. 1851 G. Van Waters Poet. Geogr. 59/1 Ascension and St. Matthew northly glow, With one St. Thomas and Fernando Po. 1864 M. A. Loughborough My Cave Life in Vicksburg 51 To the left and running northly, the rattle and roar would be sudden, sharp, and vigorous. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.eOEadv.1480 |
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