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n. - The cardinal compass point that is at 0 or 360 degrees adj. - Moving away from the south.

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  • The contrast in physiography, as we go northward, is less marked in Alberta and British Columbia.
  • The Isisi threw the call northward; the N'gombi village, sent it westward, and presently first the Isisi, then the N'gombi, heard the faint answer:
  • The Blue and White branches of the Nile travel northward from the African interior and then join to make one grand procession through Egypt, all the way to the...
  • It had chosen the knoll, sent a mind-call northward, then burrowed in and slept.
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