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Answer for the clue "Like the north wind ", 6 letters:
boreal

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Word definitions for boreal in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boreal \Bo"re*al\, a. [L. borealis: cf. F. bor['e]al. See Boreas .] Northern; pertaining to the north, or to the north wind; as, a boreal bird; a boreal blast. So from their own clear north in radiant streams, Bright over Europe bursts the boreal morn. ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Boreal (foaled 19 April 1998) is a German Thoroughbred racehorse and sire . In a racing career which lasted from March 2001 until March 2003 he ran fourteen times in four different countries and won three races, two of them at Group One level. Unraced as ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"northern," late 15c., from Latin borealis , from boreas "north wind," from Greek Boreas , name of the god of the north wind, which is of unknown origin, perhaps related to words in Balto-Slavic for "mountain" and "forest."

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. relating to or marked by qualities associated with the north wind toward or located in the north; "the boreal signs of the Zodiac" comprising or throughout far northern regions [syn: circumboreal ]

Usage examples of boreal.

Beneath it the city dropped away in walls, roofs, archaistic chimneys and lamplit streets, goblin lights of human-piloted vehicles, to the harbor, the sweep of Venture Bay, ships bound to and from the Sunward Islands and remoter regions of the Boreal Ocean, which glimmered like mercury in the afterglow of Charlemagne.

Farder Coram, it were like everything we did, they knew about before we did it, and for all we know Frans and Tom were swallowed alive as soon as they got near Lord Boreal.

This spread swampy lagoons and salt water far into Central Asia and northward to the iceless Boreal Ocean.

Natasha saw the land of her doom, the ancient homeland of the Markovites, boreal hills that sheltered her people until they were brave enough to come down onto the plains, driving off the Kazaks and Kipchaks, then pushing back the Poles and Balts, claiming the rich black earth as their own.

Wayfarer could even recall the geological past, back beyond the epoch when Arctica broke free and drifted north, ramming into land already present and thrusting the Boreals heavenward.

This tilted boarding against which I'm leaning as I catch my breath was perhaps once a cargo pallet, lashed to the heaving deck of some steamer on the Boreal Seas.

Apart from the boreal desolation and drearness, however, there was nothing to dismay Quanga or his companions.

He had immediately received an expostulatory dispatch from headquarters which henceforth shut his mouth—but he had told the simple truth, and how embarrassing that was became evident when, on the very table around which the savants were now assembled, three dispatches were laid in quick succession from the great observatories of Mount Hekla, Iceland, the North Cape, and Kamchatka, all corroborating the statement of the Mount McKinley observer, that an inexplicable veiling of faint stars had manifested itself in the boreal quarter of the sky.

There were the twin monitors on his desk, assorted homey holos and flatscape representations on the walls, a box of spherical drive files on the floor in one corner, and a back wall vid of boreal forest dominated by an energetic, flowing stream that smelled of humus and damp morning.

There were the twin monitors on his desk, assorted homey holos and flatscape representations on the walls, a box of spherical drive files on the floor in one corner, and a back wall vid of boreal forest domi­nated by an energetic, flowing stream that smelled of hu­mus and damp morning.

Benjamin said him and Gerard Hook should break into the Ministry and Frans Broekman and Tom Mendham should go and find out about Lord Boreal.

Shy roe deer traveled through ###riverine### woodlands and boreal forests in small parties - to spring and summer feeding grounds, along with unsociable moose who also frequented the bogs and melt lakes of the steppes.