Norwegiann.adj.

?a1425 (?a1350) T. Castleford Chron. (1996) I. l. 4597 He gaderd sone vnto navye Norvigiens gret bachererye, Of Norvey folke.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 274 The ayer is made pestiferous and molesteth the Norvegians.

a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 85 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Of these and the former Norwegians, the Irish tooke the use of the Sparthes, now called Galloglas axes.

1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence vi. 177 In the North parte of England the Norwegians or Normannes were ouerthrown.

1641 H. Burnell Landgartha iv. l. 12 For she (being So belov'd too of the Norwegians) might Cut short my life and passage.

1701 J. Brand Brief Descr. Orkney, Zetland 69 The Norse hath continued ever since the Norvegians had these Isles in Possession.

1778 J. Home Alfred ii. 30 Small is her boasted influence with my people; And yet her jealous rage is fell and bloody; My fair Norwegian felt her mortal hate.

a1797 E. Burke Ess. Abridgm. Eng. Hist. (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1812) V. 528 Assisted by the Norwegians and other people of Scandinavia.

1810 J. Porter Sc. Chiefs II. viii. 200 It will not dishonour your hand, for it has cut down many a proud Norwegian.

1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold I. i. ii. 33 Swede, Norwegian, and Dane,..had yet one common character viewed at a distance.

1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 590/1 The director of the Danish national theatre in 1771 was a Norwegian.

1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes i. i. 24 She's a Dane or Norwegian or something, anyway Scandinavian.

1990 Sci. News 28 July 62/1 Norwegians report they can see reflectors at the lowest mantle portion of the lithosphere.

1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence vii. 195 The Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, do again differ from these, and some litle each from other.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 564/2 The Swedish is more nearly related to the Icelandic than either the Danish or Norwegian.

1841 R. G. Latham Eng. Lang. 13 In Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian the form is [etc.].

1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. 346 Norwegian died out as a literary language in the Middle Ages, when it gave place to Danish.

1993 Independent on Sunday 1 Aug. 16 Most of the texts Grieg chose to set are either in riksmal (high, literary Norwegian) or landsmal (its dialect variant).

1872–3 J. W. Milner in Rep. U.S. Fish Comm. (1874) 9 At Milwaukee, for a time, the most of the boats were the sloop-rigged ‘Norwegians’, afterwards abandoned, and the square stern adopted.

1872–3 J. W. Milner in Rep. U.S. Fish Comm. (1874) 14 The ‘Norwegian’ is a huge, unwieldy thing, with flaring bows, great sheer, high sides, and is sloop-rigged... She is only used by the Scandinavian fishermen.

1878 Kennel Club Stud Bk. 213 Norwegian Elbehound [sic].

1957 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 557/2 Norwegian elkhound, an ancient breed of dog belonging to the hound group, developed for sporting uses, primarily to trail big game by ground scents.

2001 Orange County (Calif.) Register (Nexis) 14 Mar. The Hyter family found its beloved Norwegian elkhound Shiloh at the Orange County Animal Shelter after searching for four days.

1868 Once a Week 11 Jan. 14/1 There was a Norwegian kitchen exhibited in Paris this last year... It was a small box well coated with non-conducting substances, on the principle of a refrigerator; only, whereas the object of a refrigerator is to keep the heat out, that of a Norwegian kitchen is to keep it in.

1883 Leisure Hour 147/1 Tea..is ready all day long in teapots kept hot in covered baskets very thickly padded, such as are known with us as ‘Norwegian Kitchens’.

1998 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 17 Oct. If you're going to carry a tent in the Pyranees, why not take an india-rubber bath and a Norwegian kitchen too?

1828 J. Richardson in Zool. Jrnl. 3 517 Tawny Lemming... Nearly allied to the Norwegian Lemming.

1895 Science 21 June 690/2 Dr. R. Collett has just published a treatise on the Norwegian Lemming that at once becomes a classic on the subject.

1952 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 236 185 The crown patterns of the two cheek-teeth..agree perfectly with those of the Norwegian lemming.

2001 Ecography 24 298 We have analysed 137 yr of previously published population data on the Norwegian lemming Lemmus lemmus.

1792 R. Kerr Linnæus's Animal Kingdom 228 Mus norwegicus, or Norwegian Rat, with a long tail, and of a reddish colour.

1864 Sci. Amer. 22 Oct. 259/3 Another interesting fact is the appearance of the Norwegian rat.

1978 G. B. Williams Pest Extermination Handbk. vi. 111 The more common Norwegian rat (brown rat)..has coloring that varies from a grey to black to an auburn.

1944 Amer. Speech 19 106 Norwegian steam is brute manpower,..from the tradition of the fine sailing ships.

1970 Sea Breezes Nov. 717/2 All the hoisting and hauling is done by hand—‘Norwegian steam’ as we used to say years ago.

1998 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 13 June a15 The ship had to be moved up next to the dock by park workers walking around a capstan and pushing, a process old sailors call using ‘Norwegian steam’.

1873 A. Privat-Deschanel Elem. Treat. Nat. Philos. 424 Norwegian Stove... This is a box lined inside with a thick layer of felt, into which fits a metallic dish with a cover.

1897 Cent. Mag. Apr. 881/1 The fragments of the sculptured decoration of a Norwegian stove show much originality of conception.

1899 Outing 30 229/1 The arrangement of the sliding-seat, the deck tiller, and the ‘Norwegian’ tiller. The latter is a device adapted from the Norwegian fishing boats.