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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, published by Houghton Mifflin Company
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Norman French (dialect of Old French)
Norn (goddesses of fate in Norse myth)
Norplant (trademark)
Norse (language, Scandinavia/Germany)
Norseman (member of any of the peoples)
North Germanic (subdivision of the Germanic languages)
North Pole (geographical area, the Arctic Ocean)
norther (Rock Band)
Northern blot analysis (technique for identifying specific sequences)
Northern Hemisphere (half of the earth)
Northern Spy (late-ripening apple)
Northman (Norseman)
Northumbrian (Northumbria or its Old English dialect)
Northwest Caucasian (family of languages of the Caucasus Mountains)
Norway maple (Eurasian tree)
Norway rat (domestic rat)