Northward: alternatives and connections

The arc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the center of the sun, or a star, at its rising or setting. At the risi…

An orthographic projection of the sphere on the plane of the meridian, the eye being supposed at an infinite distance, and in the east…

A kind of raft or float, consisting of two or more logs or pieces of wood lashed together, and moved by paddles or sail; -- used as a…

To tend to one point; to incline and approach nearer together; as, lines converge.

The arc of the horizon, contained between the vertical plane and the prime vertical circle, if reckoned from the east or west, or betw…

Toward the rising sun; or toward the point where the sun rises when in the equinoctial; as, the east gate; the east border; the east s…

Going toward the east, or in the direction of east; as, an eastern voyage.

Toward the east; in the direction of east from some point or place; as, New Haven lies eastward from New York.

One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.

Being on the side next or toward the person speaking; nearer; -- correlate of thither and farther; as, on the hither side of a hill.

To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a ro…

To turn the head of a vessel toward the wind; to sail nearer the wind; to turn the tiller so as to make the vessel sail nearer the win…

A point halfway between the fess point and the middle base point of an escutcheon; -- called also navel point. See Escutcheon.

The point between the north and east, at an equal distance from each; the northeast part or region.

Of or pertaining to the north; being in the north, or nearer to that point than to the east or west.

Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the point between the north and west; being in the northwest; toward the northwest, or coming f…

To move or turn toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east.

An aspect or fronting to the east; especially (Arch.), the placing of a church so that the chancel, containing the altar toward which…