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▪ I. ˈwestwardly, a.
[f. westward adv.]
1. a. Of wind: Blowing from the westward.
1653Nissena 107 [They] hoist up their Sails, the wind being Westwardly, and good for their intended Navigation. 1706Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) VI. 10 The wind being westwardly, a general embarkation..is making at Harwich for Holland. 1805Phil. Trans. XCVI. 249 note, He expected a continuance of fine, clear weather, with westwardly winds. 1876Davis Polaris Exp. 259 The pack was driven in by a westwardly wind.
b. Moving or flowing westward.
1870Proctor Other Worlds iv. 108 note, The relatively cold and westwardly equatorial currents.
2. Situated to the westward.
1704Phil. Trans. XXV. 1634 The Section [seemed] to be a small matter more Westwardly. 1703Act 33 Geo. III c. 131 title, The road leading from Uttoxeter to the west⁓wardly part of Hardiwick heath.
▪ II. ˈwestwardly, adv.
[f. as prec.]
In or to the westward; in a westerly direction.
1519Interl. Four Elem. (Percy Soc.) 27 And next from them westwardly, Here by hymselfe, alone doth ly Ireland. a1631Donne Poems, Love-Lect. Shadow 19 If love once faint, and westwardly declyne. 1756W. Toldervy Hist. 2 Orphans IV. 76 After steering their course westwardly a few days, they met with a shabby company of strollers. 1794Vancouver Agric. Cambridge 69 Thence extending westwardly. 1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville I. v. 96 The travellers took final leave of the Sweet Water,..keeping westwardly. 1892A. E. Lee Hist. Columbus (Ohio) I. 327 Westwardly..traveled an interminable caravan of emigrants. |