Northumbrian 
reached from the river Humlicr northward to 
the Firth of Forth. It was the lending power 
in Great Hritiuti during part of the seventh ami 
eighth centuries. 2. Of or pertaining to the 
modern county of Northumberland, occupying 
part of the old Northuiubria. 
II. w. 1. A native or an inhabitant of North- 
umberland. 2. The form of the Anglo-Saxon 
or English language spoken in Northumbria be- 
tween the invasion of Britain in the fifth century 
and the Conquest. It differs from the dialect usually 
called Anglo-Saxon or West Saxon chiefly in a greater de- 
gree of reduction uf consonants In intlcctioiml endings, in 
the retention of certain cumbrous spellings, and In the 
greater admixture of Scandinavian words. The tnn.iiii - 
of Northumbrian (In this nensc usually called Old Northum- 
brian) are comparatively scanty. See Anglo-Saxon, i 
northward (north'wilrd), ailr. [< ME. imrlli- 
ward, < AS. northwedrd, also northauweard, to 
the north, < north, north, + -weard, E. -ward.] 
Toward the north, or toward a point nearer to 
the north than the east and west points. Also 
northwards. 
Bring me the fairest creature northward bom, 
Where Phoebus' flre scarce thaws the Icicles. 
SAo*., M. of V., 11. 1. 4. 
He fell into a fantasie and desire to prooue and know 
how farre that land stretched Northward. 
Halcluyt't Voyages, I. 4. 
northward (north'wSrd), a. and . [< ME. 
northward, < AS. nwthweard, adj., < nortlnrtnnl. 
adv. : see northward, adv.'] I. a. Directed or 
leading toward the north. 
The time was . . . when my heart's dear Harry 
Threw many a northward look to see his father 
Bring up his powers. ft/ink:, 2 Hen. IV., ii. 3. 13. 
II. n. The northern part; the north end or 
side. 
The tall pines 
That darken'd all the itorthicard of her Hall. 
Ttnnyton, Aylmer's Field. 
northwardly (n&rth'wtird-li), a. [< nortlnfiinl 
+ -lyi.} Having a northern direction. 
northwardly (north'wilrd-li), adv. [< north- 
wardly, d.~\ In a northern direction. 
northwards (udrth'wiirdz), adv. [< ME. north- 
wardes, < AS. northweardes (= D. noordwaarts 
= G. nordwdrts); with adv. gen. suffix, < north- 
weard, northward : see northward, adv.} Same 
as northward. 
northwest (ndrth'wesf), u. and a. [< ME. 
northwest, < AS. northwest, to the northwest, 
Horthanwestan, from the northwest (= D. noord- 
west = OHO. nordwestan, MHG. nordtcesten, 
Or. nordwest, nordwesten = Sw. Dan. nordvest, 
adv.) (cf. D. noordwestelijk = Q. nordtcestlich 
= Sw. Dan. nordvestlig) (used as a noun only 
as north, east, west, south were used), < north, 
north, + west, west: see north and west.} I. 
n. 1. That point on the horizon which lies be- 
tween the north and west and is equidistant from 
them. 2. With the definite article, a region 
or locality lying in the northwestern part of 
a country, etc., or in a direction bearing north- 
west from some point or place indicated ; spe- 
cifically [cap.}, in the United States, Wisconsin, 
Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, 
Montana, etc. [It is a rather vague phrase; 
sometimes other States or Territories may be 
included.] 
II. a. 1. Pertaining to the point or being 
in the direction between the north and west; 
northwesterly. 2. Proceeding from the north- 
west: as, a northwest wind. 
Abbreviated N. W. 
Northwest ordinance. See ordinance. Northwest 
passage, a passage for ships from the Atlantic orr'H into 
the Pacific by the northern coasts of the American con- 
tinent, long sought for and in part found by Parry and 
others. Sir Robert M'Clure, in his expedition of 1860-4, 
was the first to achieve the passage, although his ship was 
abandoned, and the journey was completed partly on ice 
and partly on the relieving vessel. The discovery Is not 
one of practical utility, being merely the solution of a sci- 
entific problem. Its honor is sometimes claimed for Sir 
John Franklin. 
northwest (north'west'), udr. [< ME. north- 
west, < AS. northwest, adv.: see northwest, n. 
and a.} To the northwest. 
northwester (north'wes'ter), n. [< Hortluri'xt 
+ -ej'l.] A wind or gale from the northwest. 
northwesterly (n6rth'wes'ter-li), a. [< iiorth- 
in-xt, after in-xtiiii/.} 1. Situated toward the 
northwest. 2. Coming from the northwest: 
as, a northteenlerly wind. 
northwesterly (north' wes'ter-li), adr. [< 
h- 
ly, .} Toward or from the nort 
west, or a general northwest direction. 
northwestern (north'wes'tern), a. [= OHG. 
nordicestroni ; < iiorthmvt, after western.} Per- 
taining to or situated in the northwest ; lying in 
4010 
or toward the northwest: as, the Northwestern 
Provinces of British India, 
northwestward (north'west'wiird), <iili\ [< 
inirlliiri-.'il + -irtird.} Toward the northwest, 
norturet, . -An obsolete form of nurtnn . 
Norw. An abbreviation of Norwegian. 
norward (nor'wiird), udr. A reduced form of 
iKirlhward. 
Stately, lightly, went she Xoricard 
Till she near'd the foe. 
Tennyson, The Captain. 
Norwayant, [< Norway (*Noncey) + -an.} 
Norwegian. 
He finds thee in the stout \arvxyan ranks. 
Nothing afcard of what thyself didst make, 
Strange linages of death. Shalt., Macbeth, i. 3. 9ft. 
Norway crow. Same as hooded crow (which 
see, under hooded). 
Norway gerfalcon. The gerfalcon of northern 
continental Europe, f'alco or Hierofalco gyr- 
falco. It is of a darker color than the corre- 
sponding gerfalcons of Greenland and Iceland. 
See cut under falcon. 
Norway haddock, lemming, lobster, maple, 
pine, etc. See haddock, etc. 
Norway spruce. See fir and spruce. 
Norwegian (nor-we'jian), a. and n. [< Norway 
(ML. Norvegia. Norweyia) + -an.} I. a. Of or 
pertaining to Norway; belonging to, found in, 
or derived from Norway Norwegian carp, had- 
dock, stove, yarn, etc. See the nouns. 
II. n. 1 . A native of Norway, a kingdom of 
Europe in the western part of the Scandina- 
vian peninsula, which since 1814 has been unit- 
ed with Sweden under a common sovereign, but 
has a separate parliament and administration. 
2. The language of Norway. It Is a Scandina- 
vian language, nearly allied to Icelandic-Danish on the 
one side and to Danish on the other. Abbreviated Nam. 
3. A kind of fishing-boat used on the Great 
Lakes. It Is a huge unwieldy boat, 35 or 40 feet In length, 
with flaring bows, great sheer, and high sides, and is sloop- 
rigged. It is dry In all weathers, but Is used only by the 
Scandinavian fishermen, most other fishermen objecting 
to the slowness of its motion and the great labor of rowing 
in a calm. 
At Milwaukee the \vncegian* were abandoned and the 
square stern adopted. .'. W. Hilner. 
norwegium (n6r-we'ii-um), n. [NL., < ML. 
Nortregia, Norvegia, Norway: see Norwegian.} 
Chemical symbol, Ng. A supposed metallic 
element closely related to bismuth. Its prop- 
erties have not been fully investigated nor its 
elementary nature fully established. 
Norwich crag. See crag 1 , 2. 
noryt, . A variant of nurry. 
nost. A Middle English contraction of nones, 
the genitive of none. See none 1 . 
Do Him kynnes labour. Chaucer, House of Fame, 1. 1794. 
nose 1 (noz), H. [< ME. nose, nese, neoxe, nase, 
< AS. nosu (in comp. nosu- and nog-), also nasu 
(in comp. n<rs-), the nose, also a point of land, 
= OFries. nose, nosi, nog = D. neus = MLG. 
nese, nase, nose, LG. nase = OHG. nasa, MHG. 
G. nase = Icel. nos = Sw. nasa = Dan. ncese, 
nose, = L. ndsus (> It. naso = Pr. nas, naz = 
F. we;); cf. nares (> Sp. Pg. nariz), nostrils; 
= OBulg. nosu = Serv. Bohem. Pol. nos = Buss. 
nosu = Lith. nosis = OPruss. nozy = Skt. nasa, 
>uis<i, nas, nose; root unknown. TheGr. word 
is different: pif (fttv-), nose. Cf. ness, naze. 
Hence nozle, nozzle, nuzzle.} 1. The special 
organ of the sense of smell, formed by modifi- 
cations of certain bones and fleshy parts of 
the face, its cavities, or fossee, freely communi- 
cable with the cavities of the mouth and lungs, 
and hence also concerned in respiration, the 
utterance of words or vocal sounds, and taste. 
It Is lined throughout by a highly vascular mucous mem- 
brane called the jritmtartt or Schnsiderian, continuous 
iih t In- skin through the nostrils, the conjunctiva of the 
eye, and the mucous membrane of the pharynx and si- 
nuses. It is in this membrane that the fine filaments of 
the olfactory nerves terminate, and over it the Inspired 
air containing odorous substances passes. The olfactory 
region, or that region to which the olfactory nerves are 
distributed, however, Includes only the upper and middle 
turbinate parts of the nasal foasfe and the upper part of 
the septum ; the lower part of the cavities has nothing 
to do with olfaction. Externally the nose commonly forms 
a prominent feature of the face or facial region of the head; 
when very long It becomes a proboscis, and may acquire a 
tactile or manual function, as in the elephant, hog, mole, 
etc. The nose of an animal when moderately prominent 
is usually called a tnout, muzzle, or inujfle. The bridge of 
the nose is so much of its external prominence as is bridged 
over or roofed In by the nasal bones. The external open- 
ingot the nose is thcwufn/, usually paired, right and h ft. 
and technically called narc*. The inner passages or cavi- 
ties of the nose are the nasal fvtxt or meatun; they open in- 
teriorly into the upper part of the pharynx, by orifices called 
the posterior naret or choaiur, above the soft palate. The 
;miuml whose nose most resembles man's in size and shape 
is the proboscis-monkey, A'ajw/M larrntttx, whose nose is 
nose 
more prominent than that of moat men. Prominence of 
the nose is to some extent an indication of ascent In tin 
Kale of human development, tin; none being flattest In I In- 
lowest or negroid races. A large nose Is commonly sup- 
posed to Indicate strength of character, and thin clean cut 
nostrils are generally a sign of high nervous organization 
Besides its special function of sme Iling, the nose has in all 
animals a respiratory office, bring, rather than the mouth, 
the usual passageway for air in both Inspinttion and expi- 
ration ; it also serves to modify or modulate the voice, and 
to discharge the secretion from several cavities of the hesd, 
an t he frontal and other sinuses, anil the tears from the eyes. 
See cuts under mouth, natal, Xatalit, and Candylura. 
The ix th batelle ledde (jrolnge poire mole, that was a 
noble knyght of his body, but he hadde no gretter note 
thsn a cat. Merlin (E. F.. T. S.), II. 321. 
The big round tears 
Coursed one another down his Innocent note 
In piteous chase. Shale., As you Like It, II. 1. SP. 
Wise Nature likewise, they suppose. 
Has drawn two Conduits down our flote. 
I'rior, Alma, L 
Hence 2. The sense of smell ; the faculty of 
smelling, or the exercise of that faculty ; scent ; 
olfaction. 
Wljtly the werwolf than went bl none 
Euene to the herdes house. 
William of Palme (E. E. T. S.), I. 90. 
You shall often see among the Dogs a loud babbler, with 
a bad no*?, lead the unskilful. 
lip. Berkeley, Minute Philosopher. 
3. Something supposed to resemble a nose, (a) 
A pointed or tapering projection or part in front of an ob- 
ject, as of a ship or a pitcher. 
The [steamship) Thingvalla's note was ripped complete- 
ly off, clear back to the first bulkhead. 
Set. Amer., N. 8., UX. Sift. 
(6) A nozle, u of a bellows ; a pipe. 
By means of a plug and seat arranged just below the 
outlet pipe, or note, communication with the neighbour- 
ing tank or settlers can be made or cut off at will. 
Spmuf Kncyc. Maim/,, I. 296. 
(c) The beak or rostrum of a still, (if) The end of a man- 
drel on which the chuck of a lathe Is secured, (t) In me- 
tal., an accumulation of chilled material around the end of 
the twyer in the blast-furnace. (/) In glau-blmring, the 
' en the lilowpli ' 
Ing. U 
of the upper shell of the hawkbill turtle: same as /W, 14. 
round opening or neck left when the blowpipe is separated 
from the glass in blowing. (;/) The small marginal plate 
(A) In tortaiK-thrtt nuimif., same as foot, IS. (t) In tntom., 
a name sometimes given to the front part of an Insect's 
head, comprising the clypeus and labrum : these, how- 
ever, have nothing In common with the nose of vertebrated 
animals. (J) Inarch. : (1) A drip; a downward projection 
from a cornice or molding, designed to throw olf rain 
water. (2) A rib, projection, or keel characterizing any 
member, as a mnlllon or molding. 
The face (or what the workmen call the note) of the 
mulllon. Encyc. Brit., IV. 476. 
(t-) A point of land. [Prov. Eng.] 
4. An informer. [Thieves' cant.] 
Now BUI ... 
Was a " regular trump " did not like to turn .\i*e. 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, II. 181. 
People might think I was a note if anybody came after 
me, and they would crab me. 
Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, I. 391. 
Aquiline nose, a high or prominent nose, convex In proflle, 
with a pointed tip, likened to an eagle's beak; a Roman 
nose. As plain as the nose on one's face, very easy 
to be seen or understood. [Colloq.) 
Those fears and jealousies appeared afterwards to every 
common man ai plain at the none on hit /ace to be but meer 
forgeries and suppositions things. 
Hoin-tt, Parly of Beasts, p. S5. (Da riot.) 
Bottle nose. See botOenote. Bridge of the nos. See 
def. 1. Bull nose. See bullnote. Column of the 
nose. See column. -Nose helve. See helot. Nose Of 
wax, a pliable, yielding person or thing. 
But vows with yon being like 
To your religion, a note of wax, 
To be turned every way. 
Majutinffer, Unnatural Combat, T. 2. 
Pug nose, a tip-tilted or tnrned-up nose : the opposite of 
the aquiline nose. Roman nose, an aquiline nose. 
Skull of the nose the bony capsule of the nose; the 
mesethmotd and ethmoturbinal bones, upon which the 
olfactory nerves chiefly ramify. To be bored through 
the nose*, to be cheated. Darirt. 
I have known divers Dutch Gentlemen grosly guld by 
this cheat, and aom English bor\l also through the nose this 
way. Itmeetl, Korraine Travell p. 44. 
To bring, keep, put, or hold one's nose to the grind- 
stone. See mnditone. To cast In the nose' to twit ; 
fling in the face. 
A feloe had coat him in the note, that he gaue so large 
monie to sortie a naughtle drabbe. 
I'tlall, tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 65. 
To follow one's nose, to go straight ahead. To hold 
one's nose. See ftswP. n lead by the nose. See 
leadt. To put one's nose out of joint. See>int To 
take pepper in the noset, to take offense. 
A man is teisty, and anger wrinckles his nose, such s man 
takes pepper in the note. 
OptifJc Glaae of Humourt (1R39). (.Vorra. ) 
To tell or count noses, to count the number of persons 
present. [Colloq.] 
The polio and number of the names ... I think to be 
but the number of the Beast, if we onely tell note*, and 
not consider reasons. 
Bp. Gauden, Tears of the Church, p. 106. (Dane*.) 
