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north Noun 1. one of the four cardinal points of the compass, at 0° or 360° 2. the direction along a meridian towards the North Pole 3. the direction in which a compass needle points; magnetic north 4. the north any area lying in or towards the north Adjective 1. in or towards the north 2. (esp. of the wind) from the north Adverb in, to, or towards the north [Old English] North Noun the North a. the northern part of England, generally regarded as reaching the southern boundaries of Yorkshire, Derbyshire, and Cheshire b. (in the US) the states north of the Mason-Dixon Line that were known as the Free States during the Civil War c. the economically and technically advanced countries of the world Adjective of or denoting the northern part of a country or area
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There being no sun nor other heavenly bodies, it is impossible for us to determine the North in the usual way; but we have a method of our own. The meeting has been successfully effected, on the shores of North America, three days since. And all this happened far away to the north, beyond Labrador, beyond Hudson's Strait, where the great tides heave the ice about, north of Melville Peninsula--north even of the narrow Fury and Hecla Straits--on the north shore of Baffin Land, where Bylot's Island stands above the ice of Lancaster Sound like a pudding-bowl wrong side up. |
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