Definition of "north wind" [north wind]

• A wind blowing from the north. (noun)

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• "They were bloomed like new-shelled chestnuts, with manes as long as girls '; so fast and strong, I almost believed Pirithoos when he said that at their mating time the black north wind of Thrace came rutting down through the passes to leap the mares."
• "I feel that I am becoming a COW, it takes nothing to move me; everything troubles and agitates me, everything is to me as the north wind is to the reed."
• "The historian Arrian, drawing on the official account of Callisthenes, reports that the north wind began to drive the water back just as Alexander arrived."