NORTH (2)

north (2)|northerly|northern|northward. North, or Northerly, or Northern, or Northward, a. lying towards the north, tending to the north

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North, a. Lying toward the north; situated at the north, or in a northern direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the north, or coming from the north. North following. See Following, a., 2. — North pole, that point in the heavens, or on the earth, ninety degrees from the equator toward the north. — North preceding. See Following, a., 2. — North star, the star toward which the north pole of the earth very nearly points, and which accordingly seems fixed and immovable in the sky. The star α (alpha) of the Little Bear, is our present north star, being distant from the pole about 1° 25′, and from year to year approaching slowly nearer to it. It is called also Cynosura, polestar, and by astronomers, Polaris.