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Voyageur :: Voyageur (n.) A traveler; -- applied in Canada to a man employed by the fur companies in transporting goods by the rivers and across the land, to and from the remote stations in the Northwest..

Northwest :: Northwest (n.) The point in the horizon between the north and west, and equally distant from each; the northwest part or region..

Escurial :: Escurial (n.) A palace and mausoleum of the kinds of Spain, being a vast and wonderful structure about twenty-five miles northwest of Madrid..

Adriatic :: Adriatic (a.) Of or pertaining to a sea so named, the northwestern part of which is known as the Gulf of Venice..

Northwester :: Northwester (n.) A storm or gale from the northwest; a strong northwest wind.

Humpback :: Humpback (n.) A small salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha), of the northwest coast of America..

Camass :: Camass (n.) A blue-flowered liliaceous plant (Camassia esculenta) of northwestern America, the bulbs of which are collected for food by the Indians..

Northwest :: Northwest (a.) Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the point between the north and west; being in the northwest; toward the northwest, or coming from the northwest; as, the northwest coast..

Northwesterly :: Northwesterly (a.) Toward the northwest, or from the northwest..

Shallon :: Shallon (n.) An evergreen shrub (Gaultheria Shallon) of Northwest America; also, its fruit. See Salal-berry..

Sewellel :: Sewellel (n.) A peculiar gregarious burrowing rodent (Haplodon rufus), native of the coast region of the Northwestern United States. It somewhat resembles a muskrat or marmot, but has only a rudimentary tail. Its head is broad, its eyes are small and its fur is brownish above, gray beneath. It constitutes the family Haplodontidae. Called also boomer, showt'l, and mountain beaver..

Kinnikinic :: Kinnikinic (n.) Prepared leaves or bark of certain plants; -- used by the Indians of the Northwest for smoking, either mixed with tobacco or as a substitute for it. Also, a plant so used, as the osier cornel (Cornus stolonijra), and the bearberry (Arctostaphylus Uva-ursi)..

Mistral :: Mistral (n.) A violent and cold northwest wind experienced in the Mediterranean provinces of France, etc..

Northwest :: Northwest (adv.) Toward the northwest.

Northwestern :: Northwestern (a.) Of, pertaining to, or being in, the northwest; in a direction toward the northwest; coming from the northwest; northwesterly; as, a northwestern course..

Lava :: Lava (n.) The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States..

Northwestward :: Northwestward (adv.) Alt. of Northwestwardl.

Northwestwardly :: Northwestwardly (adv.) Toward the northwest.

Hardfern :: Hardfern (n.) A species of fern (Lomaria borealis), growing in Europe and Northwestern America..

Friesic :: Friesic (n.) The language of the Frisians, a Teutonic people formerly occupying a large part of the coast of Holland and Northwestern Germany. The modern dialects of Friesic are spoken chiefly in the province of Friesland, and on some of the islands near the coast of Germany and Denmark..

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