Crossword-Solution: NORTHING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Northing | n. | Distance northward from any point of departure or of reckoning, measured on a meridian; -- opposed to southing. |
| Northing | n. | The distance of any heavenly body from the equator northward; north declination. |
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| movement or distance covered in a northerly direction | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with NORTHING (5)
When we were at sea, he kept a running account, in his head, of the ship's way--the number of knots and the courses; and if the courses did not vary much during the twenty-four hours, by taking the whole progress, and allowing so many eighths southing or northing, to so many easting or westing; he would make up his reckoning just before the captain took the sun at noon, and often came wonderfully near the mark.
Under date of May 11: 'Standing still! or worse; we lost more last night than we made yesterday.' In fact, they have lost three miles of the three hundred of northing they had so laboriously made.
When we were at sea, he kept a running account, in his head, of the ship's way,-- the number of knots and the courses; and, if the courses did not vary much during the twenty-four hours, by taking the whole progress and allowing so many eights southing or northing, to so many easting or westing, he would make up his reckoning just before the captain took the sun at noon, and often came very near the mark.
The latitude of this camp (87) is 11 degrees 11 minutes 13 seconds The latitude of camp (82) is 10 degrees 58 minutes 2 seconds The Northing therefore equals 13 minutes 11 seconds 'February' 20.--It commenced to rain at two o'clock this morning, and continued heavily as the party started.
Continuing their journey the next morning, they went over better and more open country, and made twenty-four or -five miles of northing.
Quotes with NORTHING (1)
A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any shutter left open to the zenith at night will record the wheeling of all the sky’s stars as a pattern of perfect, concentric circles. I seek a reduction, a shedding, a sloughing off. At the seashore you often see a shell, or fragment of a shell, that sharp sands and surf have thinned to a wisp. There is no way you can tell what kind of shell it had been, what creature it had hou…