ernatural powers are not beyond those of a
Norwood prophetess.--_The Pirate_ (introduction, 1821).

=Norris=, a family to whom Martin Chuzzlewit was introduced while he was
in America. They were friends of Mr. Bevan, rabid abolitionists, and yet
hankering after titles as the gilt of the gingerbread of life.--C.
Dickens, _Martin Chuzzlewit_ (1844).

_Norris_ (_Black_), a dark, surly man, and a wrecker. He wanted to marry
Marian, "the daughter" of Robert (also a wrecker); but Marian was
betrothed to Edward, a young sailor. Robert, being taken up for murder,
was condemned to death; but Norris told Marian he would save his life if
she would promise to marry him. Marian consented, but was saved by the
arrest of Black Norris for murder.--S. Knowles, _The Daughter_ (1836).

=North= (_Christopher_), pseudonym of John Wilson, professor of moral
philosophy, Edinburgh, editor of _Blackwood's Magazine_, in which
appeared the "Noctes Ambrosianae" (1805-1861).

_North_ (_Lord_), one of the judges in the State trial of Geoffrey
Peveril, Julian, and the dwarf, for being concerned in the popish
plot.--Sir W. Scott, _Peveril of the Peak_ (time, Charles II).[TN-42]

=North Britain= (_The_), a radical periodical, conducted by John Wilkes.
The celebrated number of this serial was No. 45, in which the ministers
are charged "with putting a lie in the king's mouth."

=Northamptonshire Poet= (_The_), John Clare (1793-1864).

=Northern Harlot= (_The_), Elizabeth Petrowna, empress of Russia; also
called "The Infamous" (1709-1761).

=Northern Wagoner=, a group of seven stars called variously Charles's
Wain, or Wagon, _i.e._ churl's wain; Ursa Major, The Great Bear, and The
Dipper. Four make the wagon, or the dipper, three form the shaft, or the
handle. Two are called Pointers because they point to the Pole-star.

By this the northern wagoner has set
His sevenfold team behind the steadfast star
That was in ocean waves yet never wet,
But firm is fixed, and sendeth light from far
To all that on the wide deep wandering are.

Spenser, _Fa[:e]ry Queen_, I. ii. 1 (1590).

=Norval= (_Old_), a shepherd, who brings up Lady Randolph's son (Douglas)
as his own. He was hidden at birth in a basket, because Sir Malcolm (her
father) hated Douglas, whom she had privately married. The child being
found by old Norval, was brought up as his own, but the old man
discovered that the foundling was "Sir Malcolm's hei