?a1606 T. Blundeville Exercises (1613) viii. 790 You shall easily draw the Easternly meridians.

1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie ii. sig. Dd3 Called amongst us sometime by the name of Easterlings from their Easternly dwellings.

1688 London Gaz. No. 2325/1 Volhinia, the most Easternly Province of Lithuania.

1745 Indenture in T. M. Faquhar Hist Bowles Family 100 A northernly course along the easternly side of the said branch to John Wyatt's line.

1848 B. Webb Sketches Continental Ecclesiol. 482 Thus nineteen [churches] have an easternly orientation.

1892 Mil. Hist. & Reminisc. 13th Regiment Illinois 177 We reached Cassville and took an easternly direction.

1937 J. L. Nelson Rhythm for Rain 271 Tewa. The name of the pueblo people of the most easternly Hopi village.

1992 W. Eure Red Wings of Christmas i. 14 A warm gust of wind playfully circled the cradle and steered it in an easternly direction.

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. iii. §8. 45 These hottest regions of the world..are..refreshed with a daylie gale of Easternely winde.

1680 C. Blount tr. Philostratus Life Apollonius Tyaneus ii. viii. 202 Thales attributed the overflowing of the Nile to the Etesian Blasts, which are Easternly Winds that blow yearly about the Dog-days.

1794 L. Whitman Let. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1795) 1st Ser. IV. 42 The Herring cove, in which vessels of the largest size may lie safely, when the wind is easternly.

1850 H. M. G. Smythies Courtship & Wedlock III. xvii. 233 An easternly wind sent her from her window to the bright wood fire Phoebe kindled.

1863 J. Cumming Driftwood, Seaweed, & Fallen Leaves 77 Some ancient weathercock..in an easternly gale of wind.

1965 Bird-Banding 36 24 Spring tides with strong easternly winds will wash almost, if not completely, over the island.

1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies iii. vii. 317 You shal goe somewhat Easternly.

1644 W. Castell Short Discov. Coasts & Continent Amer. 34 The first great Iland in our returne lying most to the West, is Cuba, having Hispaniola Easternly to usward.

1672 H. Dodwell Two Lett. Advice ii. viii. 247 Those Asian colonies being acknowledged to have proceeded Easternly.

1766 J. Michell in Philos. Trans. 1765 (Royal Soc.) 55 76 Somewhere about the place D, a little less easternly than the point of the sand.

1807 C. Butler Connected Ser. Notes Chief Revol. Principal States Charlemagne v. iii. 131 Considering it [sc. Germany] as intersected by a supposed line, drawn easternly from the mouth of the Mayn.

1868 Laws, Memorials & Resol. Territory Montana 104 Thence easternly along said boundary line to the place of beginning.

1913 Railroad Rep. 45 376 Exhibit No. 3 is a photograph taken looking easternly.

1962 Amer. Midland Naturalist 68 405 The paucity of material from more easternly-located sites.

1857 F. J. Jobson Amer., & Amer. Methodism i. 16 The sky became easternly gorgeous in its colours.

1883 Athenæum 9 June 724/1 Men who know nothing of the East..and cannot think easternly.

1920 J. Conquest Desert Love xx. 103 Sniffing appreciatively the aroma of Eastern coffee Easternly made.

1964 S. Elkin Boswell 246 ‘North wind blows south wind,’ I told him Easternly.

1976 Texas Monthly Apr. 162/2 A good bet, though, is the dark, rich turtle soup, which may not be easternly authentic but is delectable.