norther

Noun

 * 1) A strong north wind, a wind blowing from the north.

Verb

 * 1) To move or go toward the north.
 * 2)  To blow from (closer to) the north, pushing ships (etc) towards the south; to have its apparent source shift northward.
 * 3) * 1667, record quoted in 1940, Publications of the Navy Records Society, page 8:
 * The 23 February 1667 Sunday. All the morning flat calm until after six. At the coming away of the ebb sprang up a small gale at W.N.W. and N.W. by W., that we stretched along the shore toward the Ness, S.W. course. The wind northered and came easterly, a small gale. We stayed for our boat until one, which we had sent to search 4 French shallops that assured lay there to lade wool.
 * 1)  To blow from (closer to) the north, pushing ships (etc) towards the south; to have its apparent source shift northward.
 * 2) * 1667, record quoted in 1940, Publications of the Navy Records Society, page 8:
 * The 23 February 1667 Sunday. All the morning flat calm until after six. At the coming away of the ebb sprang up a small gale at W.N.W. and N.W. by W., that we stretched along the shore toward the Ness, S.W. course. The wind northered and came easterly, a small gale. We stayed for our boat until one, which we had sent to search 4 French shallops that assured lay there to lade wool.
 * 1)  To blow from (closer to) the north, pushing ships (etc) towards the south; to have its apparent source shift northward.
 * 2) * 1667, record quoted in 1940, Publications of the Navy Records Society, page 8:
 * The 23 February 1667 Sunday. All the morning flat calm until after six. At the coming away of the ebb sprang up a small gale at W.N.W. and N.W. by W., that we stretched along the shore toward the Ness, S.W. course. The wind northered and came easterly, a small gale. We stayed for our boat until one, which we had sent to search 4 French shallops that assured lay there to lade wool.

Adjective

 * 1)  ; northern
 * 2) * 1931 April 24, The Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume XXI, number 28, page 700 (of the compiled volume 31):
 * "Northest" of all
 * There is something about Scandinavia that leads those who live there to stress the "northness" of their position [...] This gentleman, it will be remembered, claimed to live "norther" than any other man. [...] he placed chief emphasis on the fact that no man lived norther than he.