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† ˈnorthen, a. Obs.
Also 2 norðen, 5 -þen, 4 norþin, 5 Sc. -thyne, 6 -thin.
[f. north + -en4. Cf. MDu. norden, noorden.]
Northern.
c1175in Assmann Ags. Hom. (1889) vii. 109 Of iaphet..com þæt norðene mennisc. 13..Cursor M. 20063 (Edinb.), Turnid ic haue it til ur awin language of the norþin lede. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. lxi. (Bodl. MS.), The norþen winde greueth þe fige tree more þan þe soþen winde. c1450tr. De Imitatione iii. xxvii. 97 Sey to þe see, ‘be in reste,’ & to þe norþen wynde, ‘blowe not’. 1513Douglas æneid vii. Prol. 15 Brym blastis of the northyne art. 1588Marprel. Epist. (Arb.) 25 His grace hearing this northen logicke, was mooued on the sodaine. c1625Fletcher Nice Valour i. i, He has almost beate The Northen fellow blind. 1660tr. Amyraldus' Treat. conc. Relig. iii. i. 304 As if a man should purpose to sail from the South with a Northen Wind. 1709H. Blunt in Garth Dispens., The People of the Northen Zone. 1772D. Taitt in N. D. Mereness Trav. Amer. Col. (1916) 541 The Inhabitants of the Tuskigees are a remnant of Northen Indians and speak a different Language from the Creek. 1773C. Caroll Let. 26 Mar. in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1920) XV. 58 Keep the Boy if the Northen Post be not Come in untill Monday. |