northerlyadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈnɔːðəli/, U.S.

/ˈnɔrðərli/

Forms: see norther adj. and -ly suffix¹; also Scottish pre-1700 northirlie, 1900s– norderly (Shetland). Also occasionally with capital initial.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: norther adj., -ly suffix¹.

Etymology: < norther adj. + -ly suffix¹. Compare slightly earlier northerly adv. Compare also easterly adj.², southerly adj., westerly adj., and also northernly adj.

A. adj.

1. Of a wind: blowing from the north. Cf. northernly adj. 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [adjective] > from specific point of compass

southeOE

northeOE

northerneOE

easternOE

southernOE

south-easternOE

north-easternOE

westernOE

south-westernOE

southena1325

north-east1379

east-north-easta1398

east-south-easta1398

north-north-easta1398

north-westa1398

south-southeasta1398

south-westc1400

south-easta1425

nor'-westa1500

south-southwesta1522

north-westera1525

northerlya1544

southerly1550

south-southeast?1560

south-easterly1577

north-north-west1601

subprincipal1601

southernly1610

north-westerly1611

easternly1614

northernly1632

westwardly1653

northwardly1654

north-easterly1686

southwardly1693

southwesterly1703

eastling1725

south-southeasterly1803

westland1818

south-southwesterly1822

north-western1829

north-north-easterly1831

southwesterly1883

nor-nor-east1891

a1544 R. Barlow tr. M. Fernández de Enciso Brief Summe Geogr. (1932) 117 The hilles be so hie that thei defende the northerlie wyndes that it cannot come to them.

1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 353 We mette northerly wyndes and greate roostynge of tydes.

1636 W. Davenant Platonick Lovers iii. l. 350 When the Sun Is blowne out by a strong Northerly wind, You'ld undertake agen to light him.

1669 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 3) 41 The sharp Easterly and Northerly winds transpierce, and dry them up.

1702 London Gaz. No. 3835/3 The Wind proving Northerly.., they stood..to the Westward.

1781 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 71 103 The northerly wind, which blows only over the land, is dry.

1818 M. W. Shelley Frankenstein III. iv. 65 They observed a strong northerly blast rising, and they accordingly put in for port.

1878 A. H. Markham Great Frozen Sea v. 60 We encountered a fresh northerly wind dead in our teeth.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 642/2 In winter the northerly gales blow straight into the mouths of the harbours.

1988 Jrnl. Navigation 41 437 The Northerly wind has knocked up a considerable sea.

2. Situated or directed towards the north; northern.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > North > [adjective]

northwardeOE

northlyeOE

northOE

northenc1175

northerna1225

septentrionalc1392

Septentrion1541

septentrial1542

northerly1556

norland1577

northernly1594

septentrionical1654

northwardly1676

septentrionic1829

1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 263 The one sorte are called Northerlye constellations.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 17 In colde and Northerlye Countreys.

1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia v. 174 In the height of thirty degrees of Northerly latitude.

1671 R. Head & F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue III. xxiii. 327 A Northerly Course will go clear of all danger.

1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 350 A Country so barbarous as that of the most Northerly Parts of Europe.

1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 323 The northerly Circus in Constantinople.

1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 39 I then stood on the northerly Part of the Bridge.

1813 E. S. Barrett Heroine III. xxxiii. 163 The commandant of the besieged army, shall evacuate the castle..and take a northerly direction.

1862 J. M. Ludlow Hist. U.S. 105 Faster..on the more Northerly than on the more Southerly parallels.

1880 A. Geikie Elem. Lessons Physical Geogr. (new ed.) iv. 182 The most northerly swell of the Rocky Mountains.

1916 E. R. Burroughs Beasts of Tarzan x. 157 The Russian had left the river and taken to the brush in a northerly direction.

1986 B. Lopez Arctic Dreams i. 31 The northerly ecosystems must contend with significant fluctuations in the amount of solar energy received.

3. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the north. Cf. northernly adj. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > North > [adjective] > character

northOE

northernc1385

northenc1410

boreal1470

northernly1574

hyperboreal1596

hyperborean1605

northerly1616

boreana1644

Boread1882

1616 B. Jonson Cynthias Revels (rev. ed.) ii. iii, in Wks. I. 202 A.. smooth, and ouer-flowing face, that seemes as it would runne, and powre it selfe into you. Somewhat a northerly face.

1668 J. Gailhard Present State Princes Italy 168 Northerly people do blame the wayes which they [sc. Italians] use to be avenged.

1788 M. Wollstonecraft Mary xi The daughter was sent by her physician, to avoid a northerly winter.

a1845 T. O. Davis Poems (1846) 47 A keen sorrow comes o'er her at times, As an Indian might feel in our northerly climes.

a1894 R. B. W. Noel My Sea (1896) 23 We shall soon be beyond their bleak Northerly Clime.

1920 Jrnl. Ecol. 8 53 On northern exposures, and in more northerly climes..the thick integuments are of no protection to sensitive plants.

1996 M. Champion Compositional Bonbons Placate 43 Northerly jams and jellies.

B. n.

A wind blowing from the north. Frequently in plural.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind with reference to direction > winds from specific compass points > north

north windeOE

aquilonc1374

northa1382

Boreas1398

breeze1589

tramontane1615

galern1693

northern1777

norther1827

northerly1895

1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 386 The commixture of the warm Southerly and Western air, with the cold Northerly and Eastern.

1840 F. Marryat Olla Podrida III. 19 All the winds which have northerly in them are coarse.]

1895 Science 20 Sept. 375/1 From February to May the northerlies gain on the southerlies, and return to summer conditions.

1950 G. W. Brace Summer's Tale xxii. 240 The northerly died out and he kept fairly close to avoid the tide.

1981 Jrnl. Meteorol. Soc. Japan 59 173 Over central China, 700 mb northerlies..are strongest when..a major trough is over northeastern China.

1993 M. Gee Going West (1994) 101 In December we had northerlies.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

northerlyadv.

Brit.

/ˈnɔːðəli/, U.S.

/ˈnɔrðərli/

Forms: see norther adj. and -ly suffix²; also Scottish pre-1700 norderly, pre-1700 northirlie.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: norther adj., -ly suffix².

Etymology: < norther adj. + -ly suffix². Compare northerly adj., and also easterly adv., southerly adv., westerly adv.Compare Old Icelandic norðarliga.

1. Towards the north; in a northerly direction; on the north side. Now chiefly Law.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > North > [adverb]

northeOE

by northc893

northwardseOE

northwardOE

benorth1087

norwarda1450

northly1480

northerly1538

northernly1576

northenwards1591

at north1625

septentrionally1646

north-about1673

norwards1673

northernly1679

northwardly1726

anorth1807

north-away1820

northbound1867

up-along1908

1538 in J. Robertson Illustr. Topogr. & Antiq. Aberdeen & Banff (1857) III. 18 Fra that passand northerlie.

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 66 Vthiris mair northirlie, nocht ȝit haue bene inhabited.

1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie 32 Scattered farre and wide.., both Northerly in Cataya, and Southerly to India.

1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 3 We Englishmen being farre northerly.

1671 R. Head & F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue III. xxiii. 346 August the ninth, steering Northerly forty two Leagues, we found per observationem the Ship to run but thirty seven Leagues.

1705 in Mem. Hist. Soc. Pennsylvania (1872) X. 15 I would have the same county to be marked northerly by stones.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 143 We weighed and stood Northerly along the Shore.

1812 R. Woodhouse Elem. Treat. Astron. xiii. 112 The star will be more northerly in the position E.

1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 29 As we proceed northerly, the climate becomes more temperate.

1890 H. D. Rawnsley Poems, Ballads & Bucolics 160 Now sets more northerly the sun, Glad Midsummer is near.

1928 H. Belloc James the Second iv. 98 Both lines then went about, the English now sailing southerly and the Dutch northerly.

1972 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 10 Oct. 22/8 Thence northerly twenty-three and fifty three one hundredths feet.

2002 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl.-Bull. (Nexis) 28 Jan. a6 Bounded southerly by land of said Railroad Company to said Old State Highway; thence running northerly..to the point and place of beginning.

2. Of a wind: from the north. Also figurative. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1556 Certaine Instructions in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) ii. 310 The wind vering more northerly, we were forced to put roomer with the coast of England againe.

a1668 W. Davenant Law against Lovers (1673) iv. i. 312 My kind Tutor, The Hangman, will strip me stark naked When I'm swinging, though the wind blow northerly.

1742 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 42 163 For should the Wind blow Northerly any thing hard for many Days together..the Icicles..would more sensibly affect the naked Skin.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Wind Along the coasts of Cambodia and China..the Monsoons blow northerly and southerly.

1887 C. P. Cranch Weather-prophet in Ariel & Caliban 114 'Twas but this morning the wind blowing northerly Roughened the tops of the ocean waves frothily.

2000 Internat. Herald Tribune (Nexis) 18 July 11 Let's..call it the wind of change. That blew northerly in the early 1990s, offering pale skinny models, plain and puritan clothes [etc.].

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	northerly
释义	northerlyadj.n. Brit. /ˈnɔːðəli/, U.S. /ˈnɔrðərli/ Forms: see norther adj. and -ly suffix¹; also Scottish pre-1700 northirlie, 1900s– norderly (Shetland). Also occasionally with capital initial. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: norther adj., -ly suffix¹. Etymology: < norther adj. + -ly suffix¹. Compare slightly earlier northerly adv. Compare also easterly adj.², southerly adj., westerly adj., and also northernly adj. A. adj. 1. Of a wind: blowing from the north. Cf. northernly adj. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [adjective] > from specific point of compass southeOE northeOE northerneOE easternOE southernOE south-easternOE north-easternOE westernOE south-westernOE southena1325 north-east1379 east-north-easta1398 east-south-easta1398 north-north-easta1398 north-westa1398 south-southeasta1398 south-westc1400 south-easta1425 nor'-westa1500 south-southwesta1522 north-westera1525 northerlya1544 southerly1550 south-southeast?1560 south-easterly1577 north-north-west1601 subprincipal1601 southernly1610 north-westerly1611 easternly1614 northernly1632 westwardly1653 northwardly1654 north-easterly1686 southwardly1693 southwesterly1703 eastling1725 south-southeasterly1803 westland1818 south-southwesterly1822 north-western1829 north-north-easterly1831 southwesterly1883 nor-nor-east1891 a1544 R. Barlow tr. M. Fernández de Enciso Brief Summe Geogr. (1932) 117 The hilles be so hie that thei defende the northerlie wyndes that it cannot come to them. 1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 353 We mette northerly wyndes and greate roostynge of tydes. 1636 W. Davenant Platonick Lovers iii. l. 350 When the Sun Is blowne out by a strong Northerly wind, You'ld undertake agen to light him. 1669 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 3) 41 The sharp Easterly and Northerly winds transpierce, and dry them up. 1702 London Gaz. No. 3835/3 The Wind proving Northerly.., they stood..to the Westward. 1781 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 71 103 The northerly wind, which blows only over the land, is dry. 1818 M. W. Shelley Frankenstein III. iv. 65 They observed a strong northerly blast rising, and they accordingly put in for port. 1878 A. H. Markham Great Frozen Sea v. 60 We encountered a fresh northerly wind dead in our teeth. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 642/2 In winter the northerly gales blow straight into the mouths of the harbours. 1988 Jrnl. Navigation 41 437 The Northerly wind has knocked up a considerable sea. 2. Situated or directed towards the north; northern. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > North > [adjective] northwardeOE northlyeOE northOE northenc1175 northerna1225 septentrionalc1392 Septentrion1541 septentrial1542 northerly1556 norland1577 northernly1594 septentrionical1654 northwardly1676 septentrionic1829 1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 263 The one sorte are called Northerlye constellations. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 17 In colde and Northerlye Countreys. 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia v. 174 In the height of thirty degrees of Northerly latitude. 1671 R. Head & F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue III. xxiii. 327 A Northerly Course will go clear of all danger. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 350 A Country so barbarous as that of the most Northerly Parts of Europe. 1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 323 The northerly Circus in Constantinople. 1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 39 I then stood on the northerly Part of the Bridge. 1813 E. S. Barrett Heroine III. xxxiii. 163 The commandant of the besieged army, shall evacuate the castle..and take a northerly direction. 1862 J. M. Ludlow Hist. U.S. 105 Faster..on the more Northerly than on the more Southerly parallels. 1880 A. Geikie Elem. Lessons Physical Geogr. (new ed.) iv. 182 The most northerly swell of the Rocky Mountains. 1916 E. R. Burroughs Beasts of Tarzan x. 157 The Russian had left the river and taken to the brush in a northerly direction. 1986 B. Lopez Arctic Dreams i. 31 The northerly ecosystems must contend with significant fluctuations in the amount of solar energy received. 3. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the north. Cf. northernly adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > North > [adjective] > character northOE northernc1385 northenc1410 boreal1470 northernly1574 hyperboreal1596 hyperborean1605 northerly1616 boreana1644 Boread1882 1616 B. Jonson Cynthias Revels (rev. ed.) ii. iii, in Wks. I. 202 A.. smooth, and ouer-flowing face, that seemes as it would runne, and powre it selfe into you. Somewhat a northerly face. 1668 J. Gailhard Present State Princes Italy 168 Northerly people do blame the wayes which they [sc. Italians] use to be avenged. 1788 M. Wollstonecraft Mary xi The daughter was sent by her physician, to avoid a northerly winter. a1845 T. O. Davis Poems (1846) 47 A keen sorrow comes o'er her at times, As an Indian might feel in our northerly climes. a1894 R. B. W. Noel My Sea (1896) 23 We shall soon be beyond their bleak Northerly Clime. 1920 Jrnl. Ecol. 8 53 On northern exposures, and in more northerly climes..the thick integuments are of no protection to sensitive plants. 1996 M. Champion Compositional Bonbons Placate 43 Northerly jams and jellies. B. n. A wind blowing from the north. Frequently in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind with reference to direction > winds from specific compass points > north north windeOE aquilonc1374 northa1382 Boreas1398 breeze1589 tramontane1615 galern1693 northern1777 norther1827 northerly1895 1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 386 The commixture of the warm Southerly and Western air, with the cold Northerly and Eastern. 1840 F. Marryat Olla Podrida III. 19 All the winds which have northerly in them are coarse.] 1895 Science 20 Sept. 375/1 From February to May the northerlies gain on the southerlies, and return to summer conditions. 1950 G. W. Brace Summer's Tale xxii. 240 The northerly died out and he kept fairly close to avoid the tide. 1981 Jrnl. Meteorol. Soc. Japan 59 173 Over central China, 700 mb northerlies..are strongest when..a major trough is over northeastern China. 1993 M. Gee Going West (1994) 101 In December we had northerlies. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). northerlyadv. Brit. /ˈnɔːðəli/, U.S. /ˈnɔrðərli/ Forms: see norther adj. and -ly suffix²; also Scottish pre-1700 norderly, pre-1700 northirlie. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: norther adj., -ly suffix². Etymology: < norther adj. + -ly suffix². Compare northerly adj., and also easterly adv., southerly adv., westerly adv.Compare Old Icelandic norðarliga. 1. Towards the north; in a northerly direction; on the north side. Now chiefly Law. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > North > [adverb] northeOE by northc893 northwardseOE northwardOE benorth1087 norwarda1450 northly1480 northerly1538 northernly1576 northenwards1591 at north1625 septentrionally1646 north-about1673 norwards1673 northernly1679 northwardly1726 anorth1807 north-away1820 northbound1867 up-along1908 1538 in J. Robertson Illustr. Topogr. & Antiq. Aberdeen & Banff (1857) III. 18 Fra that passand northerlie. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 66 Vthiris mair northirlie, nocht ȝit haue bene inhabited. 1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie 32 Scattered farre and wide.., both Northerly in Cataya, and Southerly to India. 1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 3 We Englishmen being farre northerly. 1671 R. Head & F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue III. xxiii. 346 August the ninth, steering Northerly forty two Leagues, we found per observationem the Ship to run but thirty seven Leagues. 1705 in Mem. Hist. Soc. Pennsylvania (1872) X. 15 I would have the same county to be marked northerly by stones. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 143 We weighed and stood Northerly along the Shore. 1812 R. Woodhouse Elem. Treat. Astron. xiii. 112 The star will be more northerly in the position E. 1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 29 As we proceed northerly, the climate becomes more temperate. 1890 H. D. Rawnsley Poems, Ballads & Bucolics 160 Now sets more northerly the sun, Glad Midsummer is near. 1928 H. Belloc James the Second iv. 98 Both lines then went about, the English now sailing southerly and the Dutch northerly. 1972 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 10 Oct. 22/8 Thence northerly twenty-three and fifty three one hundredths feet. 2002 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl.-Bull. (Nexis) 28 Jan. a6 Bounded southerly by land of said Railroad Company to said Old State Highway; thence running northerly..to the point and place of beginning. 2. Of a wind: from the north. Also figurative. Now rare. ΚΠ 1556 Certaine Instructions in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) ii. 310 The wind vering more northerly, we were forced to put roomer with the coast of England againe. a1668 W. Davenant Law against Lovers (1673) iv. i. 312 My kind Tutor, The Hangman, will strip me stark naked When I'm swinging, though the wind blow northerly. 1742 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 42 163 For should the Wind blow Northerly any thing hard for many Days together..the Icicles..would more sensibly affect the naked Skin. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Wind Along the coasts of Cambodia and China..the Monsoons blow northerly and southerly. 1887 C. P. Cranch Weather-prophet in Ariel & Caliban 114 'Twas but this morning the wind blowing northerly Roughened the tops of the ocean waves frothily. 2000 Internat. Herald Tribune (Nexis) 18 July 11 Let's..call it the wind of change. That blew northerly in the early 1990s, offering pale skinny models, plain and puritan clothes [etc.]. 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