Towards the north.

A town in Tyne and Wear, England, on the north bank of the Tyne.

The northern part of the continent of Africa, usually referring to specifically the regions north of the Sahara Desert where Arabic is widely spoken as a mother tongue. / Synonym of Maghreb.

The brown rat.

The temperate zone between the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer.

Any force acting normal, to a surface, or perpendicular to the tangent plane.

plural of Norway rat

(astronomy) A star positioned circumpolar to the North Pole. / A village in New South Wales, Australia. / A hamlet in the County of Northern Lights, Alberta, Canada.

(figuratively) An aim or a goal, a dependable guiding light in a quickly changing world.

The compass point halfway between west and northwest; specifically at a bearing of 292.5°.