NORE. The old word for north. Also, a canal or channel.
NORIE'S EPITOME. A treatise on navigation not to be easily cast aside.
NORLAND. Of, or belonging to, the north land.
NORMAL LEVEL of a Barometer. A term reckoned synonymous with [par-line] (which see).
NORMAN. A short wooden bar thrust into one of the holes of the windlass or capstan in a merchantman, whereon to veer a rope or fasten the cable, if there be little strain upon it. Also fixed through the head of the rudder, in some ships, to prevent the loss of the rudder. Also, a pin placed in the bitt-cross-piece to confine the cable from falling off.
NORRIE, AND TAMMIE NORRIE. The Scotch name for the puffin.
NORTH. From the Anglo-Saxon nord.
NORTH-AWAY YAWL. The old term for [Norway yawl] (which see).
NORTH-EAST PASSAGE. To the Pacific, or round the north of Europe, has been divided into three parts, thus: 1. From Archangel to the river Lena; 2. from the Lena, round Tschukotskoi-ness to Kamtschatka; and 3. from Kamtschatka to Japan. They have been accomplished at various times, but not successively.
NORTHERN DIVER. The Colymbus glacialis, a large diving-bird.