a dialect of Middle English that developed into Scottish Lallans
<noun.communication> [ adj ]
in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line
<adj.all> Northern liberals northern industry northern cities
situated in or coming from regions of the north
<adj.all> the northern hemisphere northern autumn colors
situated in or oriented toward the north
<adj.all> the northern suburbs going in a northerly direction
coming from the north; used especially of wind
<adj.all> the north wind doth blow a northern snowstorm the winds are northerly
Northern \North"ern\, a. [AS. nor[eth]erne.] 1. Of or pertaining to the north; being in the north, or nearer to that point than to the east or west.
2. In a direction toward the north; as, to steer a northern course; coming from the north; as, a northern wind.
{Northern diver}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Loon}.
{Northern lights}. See {Aurora borealis}, under {Aurora}.
{Northern spy} (Bot.), an excellent American apple, of a yellowish color, marked with red.
Great Lakes Bancorp said it has formed a mortgage-banking unit to expand its residential mortgage-loan business into the northern suburbs of Detroit.
In addition to the Atlantic states, rain and occasional thunderstorms also spread over the upper Ohio Valley and the northern and central Appalachians.
"We do anticipate some exiting of farmers, particularly in the northern Plains and part of the western Corn Belt," said Gregory Hanson, an Agriculture Department economist.
As many as 42 civilians were killed and about 50 others wounded in the northern mining town of Segovia.
In August, the statue of Josef Stalin was quietly removed from Shkodra, a northern town.
Born in Sekhukuneland in northern Transvaal on July 26 1924, the son of a migrant laborer, Motsoaledi worked in Johannesburg as a servant, and in boot and furniture factories.
Three congressmen said Wednesday that the Bush administration's scaled-down plan to protect the northern spotted owl will force a court battle that will paralyze logging in the Pacific Northwest.
Flood watches were posted for parts of southern New England, southeast New York, including New York City, northern New Jersey and the Philadelphia area.
Saturday's London violence was the worst since September 1985, when crowds of young blacks and some whites clashed with police in the northern industrial city of Birmingham.
Snow continued falling today from the Pacific Northwest to the northern Rockies, northern Plains, and upper Mississippi Valley, and was expected to spread to the Great Lakes.
Snow continued falling today from the Pacific Northwest to the northern Rockies, northern Plains, and upper Mississippi Valley, and was expected to spread to the Great Lakes.
Snow fell across northern Florida from Panhandle beaches to Jacksonville but melted as soon as it hit the ground.
We will do what we can to give political and material support to the population in northern and southern Iraq while the regime continues its repression.
She hopes to establish Sisters of Charity missions in Maputo, the capital, and the northern province of Nampula, AIM reported.
In an earlier drug-cult case, police in April 1989 found 15 bodies buried on a ranch near the northern city of Matamoros across the U.S.-Mexico border from Brownsville, Texas.
Jordan's relations with its powerful northern neighbor are lukewarm, mainly because it opposes Syrian's military presence in Lebanon.
It was expected to produce heavy snow during the weekend in the mountains of Washington, Oregon and northern California.
Clouds of black dust blown from freshly plowed fields created blackouts on highways in the northern part of the state, causing an 18-car pileup on U.S. Highway 31 outside South Bend.
At midday, showers extended from south-central Kansas across south-central Nebraska, over north-central Illinois, from Ohio and eastern Kentucky across western Pennsylvania, and from northeastern New York state across northern and central New England.
Under Sanborn, Conrail had been expected to try to expand into such areas as hauling waste and already is carrying compacted refuse from northern New Jersey and the New York City area to eastern Ohio.
More than 60,000 Moslems live in the northern England community, where demonstrators have burned copies of Rushdie's book.
High wind warnings were issued for the eastern half of Montana, the northern mountains and eastern sections of Wyoming, the western Dakotas and the eastern foothills of Colorado.
Police gave no motive for the slaying of Angela de Guerrero, 32. She was shot four times as she sat in her small sedan outside a supermarket in Bogota's northern suburbs by two gunmen who fled in a white car.
An estimated 19 House seats will move from northern and midwestern industrial states to the Sun Belt before 1992, and millions have been spent to maximize each party's strength in the state legislatures that will redraw the House district boundaries.
Predictions for the coming year? _An earthquake will destroy vast parts of northern Mexico and southern California.
It has stood empty since a 7.1-magnitude earthquake shook northern California six months ago, killing 68 people, cracking concrete columns supporting the waterfront roadway.
A Kurdish guerrilla group, the Kurdish Democratic Party, claims Iraq dropped poison gas bombs on six Kurdish villages in northern Iraq that day.
Persistent reports this year spoke of unrest in Shkodra and other northern areas that traditionally were Roman Catholic before the Communists took over.
Media General Inc.'s board of directors has rejected an offer by California investor Burt Sugarman to end his takeover bid in exchange for a large share of the company's cable television operation in northern Virginia, Media General officials say.
Elsewhere, showers extended along the northern Pacific Coast.