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▪ I. boreal, a.|ˈbɔərɪəl|
Also 5 boriall, 6 boryall, 7 boreall.
[ad. L. Boreālis; see Boreas, and -al1.]
1. Of or pertaining to the north; situated on the northern side; of a northern character. boreal signs: the six signs of the Zodiac from Aries to Virgo. boreal dawn (rare): the aurora borealis. Now chiefly in Zool. and Bot.
1470Harding Chron. ccxl. note, Foure flodes..Ebbynge & flowynge in the see boriall. 1536Exhort. Northe in Furnivall Ballads fr. MSS. I. 305 The boryalle Region. 1695Westmacott Script. Herb. 42 Fitz Stephens describing London, tells us of a large Forrest of [Chestnut] Trees on the Boreal part of it. 1805W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. III. 211 His pretended reforms, like the boreal dawn, glittered at a distance. 1845Poe Ulalume, The boreal pole. 1846McCulloch Acc. Brit. Empire (1854) I. 99 [Plants] all eminently alpine or boreal. 1874Coues Birds of N.-W. 316 The Acadian Owl is not so boreal a bird as its congener.
2. Of or pertaining to the north wind.
1656Blount Glossogr., Boreal, pertaining to the North-Wind. 1672R. Wild Declar. Lib. Consc. 7 Such a boreal month as this March. 1720Pope Iliad xxiii. 241 To gentle Zephyr and the Boreal blast. 1830in Blackw. Mag. XXVIII. 941 The boreal storms are o'er.
3. Belonging to the ‘boreal province’ of the Mollusca.
1854Woodward Mollusca iii. (1856) 358 The boreal shells of America are described by Dr. Gould. 1873Geikie Gt. Ice Age xv. 196 Perfect specimens of boreal and arctic shells.
4. Applied by Blytt to the next period of vegetation in Scandinavia after the arctic period, and later by others to the climate of other areas.
1876[see Arctic a. 3]. 1939V. G. Childe Dawn Europ. Civ. (ed. 3) i. 2 A continental Boreal phase, characterized by summers longer and warmer than to-day, but severe snowy winters. 1946L. D. Stamp Britain's Struct. & Scenery xiv. 157 The abrupt change from a cold or ‘Boreal’ climate to the milder, damper ‘Atlantic’ climate. 1963Field Archaeol. (Ordnance Survey) (ed. 4) 23 The application of the techniques of pollen analysis and Carbon 14 investigations have shown conclusively that the site belongs to the Boreal climatic phase which succeeded the last Ice Age, and that it may be dated with some confidence to 8,000–7,500 B.C.
▪ II. boreal
obs. form of beryl. |