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borealis

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Borealis is a 2008 documentary film by Frank Wolf that follows two friends on a 3,100 km canoe adventure through the northern Boreal forest of Manitoba and Ontario. The film looks at the industrial threats to the pristine, vast wilderness north of the 51st ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
shortening of aurora borealis (q.v.).

Usage examples of borealis.

Sometimes her glimmer rises in the twilight, but it is in the black night of revolutions and of wars that her resplendence blazes forth, and her aurorean dawn becomes the Aurora Borealis.

Faint coruscations of the Aurora Borealis appeared one evening, but their presence did not in the least affect the electrometer or the compass.

High above the tattered clouds, the aurora borealis forms a veil across the sky, a garish mother-of-pearl haze riddled with thousands of long, lurid scintillations, like giant shooting stars.

Law of the Cyclone which he surprised in darkness and cold at the foot of the overarching throne of the Aurora Borealis.

December 1927, Professor Carl Stormer of Oslo, an expert on the aurora borealis, chanced to meet a telegraphic engineer named Hals, to whom he mentioned the Taylor-Young puzzle.

Ataensic, an Iroquois deity, 123, 131, 170 Ataguju, or Atachuchu, 152 Atatarho, mythical Iroquois chief, 118 Athapascan tribes, 24 myths, 104, 150, 195, 205, 229, 248, 257 Atl, an Aztec deity, 131 Aurora borealis, 245 Aymaras, 31, 34, 177 Aztecs, their books and characters, 10 divisions, 29 names of God, 48, 50, 58 n.

Vastitas Borealis, skirting the scarp of the big Lomonsov crater and navigating the rolling dune sea to the mouth of Chasma Boreale.

Ann and Nadia and Simon took rover Three and drove back down Chasma Borealis and around to the west, where one of the glaciers curling away from the cap thinned to a perfect rampway.

It had been spotted at the water station in Chasma Borealis last year, during an ice fall and subsequent power outage.

On Mangalavid they saw programs about a fusion prototype in Chasma Borealis.

At that point Nadia turned her attention to other matters, programming toolmakers, starting robot linemen along the broken pipelines from Chasma Borealis.

Rockets and geysers and Roman candles, glittering anemones blooming in the sky, Aurora Borealis on a psychedelic trip, a thousand shooting stars streaking the night, dazzling trails of colored fire, ruby and emerald and amethyst dreams, aerial torches, blinding celestial fountains, man-made comets hurtling high, brilliant and bright, whistlers and screamers and hot colored streamers all raining down in a heated shower of riotous color mixed with glass, wood, and mortar.

As a result, the color index she had created to display the wormhole's bursts of high-energy radiation on the main viewscreen kept shifting from an angry bruiselike red-violet to an icy borealis shimmer of translucent blue to a deep electric indigo sparked with hot white highlights.

Then he seated himself at the pilot console awaiting touchdown on Tania Borealis.

A blaze of stars backlights a sky-spanning display of aurora borealis.