In the direction of the part of the horizon on the left-hand side of a person facing the rising sun… With reference to direction, motion, or extent.

In compound prepositions of direction, as by-hither on this side of, by west to the west of, by north in or to the north, on the north side, etc…

With reference to direction, motion, or extent: = northward, adv. 1.

With reference to direction, motion, or extent. Cf. northwards, adv. 1.

To the north. Obsolete.

In a northerly direction; northward.

In a northerly direction; northward.

Towards the north; in a northerly direction; on the north side. Now chiefly Law.

= northerly, adv. 1. Now rare.

From the north; from a northern part.

The part of the horizon to the left of a person facing the rising sun; the direction of this; spec. the… Without definite article.

in the direction of the north; in the north.

By a northerly route; spec. by the sea passage round the north of Scotland. Also in extended use and as adj.

Towards the north.

= northerly, adv. 2. Obsolete. rare.

In a northward direction; towards the north.

To the north; northward.

In the north. Now rare.

Towards the north; in a northerly direction.

Along in a particular or specified direction; in the world at large; in or towards a larger community outside an isolated region; spec. (in British…