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seaward, adv. (and quasi-n.) and a.|ˈsiːwəd|
See also seawards.
[f. sea n. + -ward.]
A. In adverbial phrases and as adverb.
1. Phrases.
a. to (the) seaward: towards the sea; in the direction of the sea; in the direction of the open sea, away from the land. to the seaward of: to or at a place nearer the sea (or, at sea, farther from the land) than.[In the early examples to and ward form a compound prep. governing the interposed n. In later use seaward seems to be apprehended as an absolute use of the adj.] α with article.1387–8T. Usk Test. Love iii. v. (Skeat) I. 75 Waters to the see-ward ever ben they drawing. c1440Lovelich Seint Graal II. 86 Thanne Nasciens his weye gan to take, and faste to the Seward gan he schake. 1535Coverdale Ezek. xxxix. 11 Where..men go from the east to the see warde. c1582T. Digges in Archæologia XI. 225 To the Seawarde this Baye shall allway be defended and garded with a massye banke of beache. 1640tr. Verdere's Rom. of Rom. iii. xxxix. 174 [He] wheeled about with his forces to the Seaward. 1698Froger Voy. 142 We discovered a ship two leagues off to the Sea-ward. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. v. 177 Mr. Brett..did really discover her..steering off to the seaward. 1852Kingsley Andromeda 27 The flame shone far to the seaward.
β without article.1540in Sel. Pleas Crt. Admiralty (1894) I. 92 The maryners..imediately wente to see ward withowte ancre or cable. 1567Golding Ovid's Met. vi. 508 The River..to Seaward runnes a pace Through Phrygie. 1624Capt. Smith Virginia vi. 216 Three Iles, seene farre to Sea-ward. 1683Chalkhill Thealma & Cl. 138 The Eagle..Soaring aloft to seaward took her flight. 1810Scott Lady of L. iii. ix, The billow..That far to seawards finds his source. 1890Doyle White Company xvii, The wrack had thickened to seaward, and the coast was but a blurred line.
b. In mod. use, from (the) seaward: from the direction in which the sea lies.
1719De Foe Crusoe ii. (Globe) 404 It blew a terrible Storm of Wind that Evening from the Seaward. 1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! xx, A point where she [the ship] could not be seen from the seaward. 1856Grote Greece ii. xcii. XII. 128 The defenders were powerfully aided from seaward by the Persian ships with their numerous crews. 1882H. De Windt Equator 128 On the approach from seaward Cadiz..presents more the appearance of a Moorish town than a European city.
2. adv. Towards the sea or the open sea (away from the land).
1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 318 Couched betweene a high cliffe sea-ward and as high an hill land-ward. 1725Pope Odyss. iv. 681 The rock rush'd sea-ward. 1849M. Arnold Forsaken Merman 128 When sweet airs come seaward From heaths starr'd with broom. 1877Huxley Physiogr. 126 The total quantity of matter..carried seaward is something enormous. 1883Kay in Law Rep. 11 Q.B. Div. 500 Helpsford Scar..is further seaward than the place where this accident occurred.
b. Comb.
1857Dufferin Lett. High Lat. (ed. 3) 395 The seaward-facing crag. 1860Tennyson Sea Dreams 16 Now seaward-bound for health they gain'd the coast. 1864― En. Ard. 559 In a seaward-gazing mountain-gorge They built..a hut. 1888Stevenson Across the Plains, etc. (1892) 193 A strange sight it is to see (of an afternoon) the heights of Pulteney blackened by seaward-looking fishers, as when a city crowds to a review.
B. adj.
†1. Fresh from the sea. Obs. rare—1.
c1450J. Russell Bk. Nurture 642 in Babees Bk. 161 White herynge in a dische, if hit be seaward & fresshe.
2. Going out to sea, going to seaward or in seawardly direction.
a1621Donne To Sir H. W. going Ambass. Venice 14 After those loving papers which friends send With glad griefe, to your Sea-ward steps, farewel. 1795Southey Joan of Arc viii. 603 Marking the playful tenants of the stream..stem the sea-ward tide. 1830H. N. Coleridge Grk. Poets (1834) 376 And he Anchises' famous son embark'd Captive æneas in the seaward ship. 1904E. Rickert Reaper 188 He turned along the seaward road.
3. Directed or looking towards the sea; facing the sea, or the open sea; situated on the side or portion (of a thing) which is nearest the sea.
1725Pope Odyss. iv. 1034 The sea-ward prow invites the tardy gales. 1803Coleridge Recoll. Love ii, I lay On seaward Quantock's heathy hills. 1820Scoresby Acc. Arctic Reg. I. 104 Various heaps of broken ice denoted recent shoots of the seaward edge [of the glacier]. 1852Tennyson Ode Wellington 173 Your cannons moulder on the seaward wall. 1875Encycl. Brit. I. 110/2 The seaward sides of the mountain ranges. 1902Act 2 Edw. VII, c. 24 §7 (2) Two hundred yards from the seaward extremities of the work.
b. Of a wind: Blowing from the sea.
1810Naval Chron. XXIII. 123 Sheltered from seaward winds. 1905B. Camm Voy. of ‘Pax’ 10 The large black sails were filled with a seaward breeze. |