southwestwardn.adv.adj.

1532 Chaucer's Treat. Astrolabe in Wks. G. Chaucer f. ccciii/2 Aspye diligently whan this same fyrste starre passeth any thynge to the southwestwarde.

1613 R. Harcourt Relation Voy. Guiana 19 To the South-westward of these Prouinces..towards the high land, there bee many others.

1745 Theatre of Present War in Netherlands 35 Menin..stands upon the same River Lys, five Miles to the South-Westward of Courtray.

1775 in Philos. Trans. 1778 (Royal Soc.) (1779) 68 392 When the ship's head was to the Southwestward.

1831 W. Scott Castle Dangerous i, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. III. 215 Coming from the south-westward.

1884 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Handbk. vi. 411 [The currents] often run with great velocity to the south-westward.

1916 Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci. 13 166 These formations were tilted to the southwestward and partly truncated in late Mississippian time.

1932 Bull. National Res. Council No. 89 207 A few such boulders had previously been found in the vicinity of Cape Girardeau, but the newly-found ones lie much farther to the southwestward.

2002 H. C. Rountree in R. Ethridge & C. Hudson Transformation of Southeastern Indians iv. 65 In the early 1670s came several famous English expeditions to the southwestward.

1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. M vj Thear stode southwestward about a quarter of a mile from our campe, a monasterie.

1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Gv He sayled by the costes of the Ilande Southweste warde.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion viii. 111 Cleere Sabrine..South-west-ward casts her course.

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. iv. 108 The reader..may, going south-westward, before noon enter the Tribe of Zebulun.

1792 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 48 The..mountains which run south-westward through Pennsylvania.

1820 J. Keats Lamia i, in Lamia & Other Poems 13 That other ridge..Stretches..South-westward to Cleone.

1876 G. Meredith Beauchamp's Career II. xvi. 286 Save where a quarry south-westward gaped at the evening sun.

1884 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Handbk. vi. 441 The anchorage for large vessels is south-westward of Little Sea Hill.

1919 Outing Mar. 312/1 They migrated southwestward along a route long afterward followed by the first white settlers of western Virginia and Carolina.

1957 F. H. Forrester 1001 Questions answered about Weather iii. 104 Tropical cyclones affecting areas south and southwestward of Mexico and Central America are sometimes called cordonazos.

1997 T. Pynchon Mason & Dixon 517 The sun coming through, the River shining below, the great Warriors' River, keeping her course ever south-westward.

1793 G. Imlay Descr. Western Territory of N. Amer. (Dublin ed.) iii. 37 There is a body of good land on Great Sandy; but leaving that in a south-westward course, high, rugged, and broken hills arise.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 384 The river Kennebeck takes a southwestward course.

1859 Rep. Progress 1858 (Geol. Survey Canada) i. 36 On the south-westward side of the Lake of Three Mountains,..the lake is joined by a brook.

1893 G. Gissing Odd Women I. vii. 207 He took a south-westward course, crossed Waterloo Bridge, and thence by the highways made for Herne Hill.

1909 Science 16 Apr. 632/2 Other valleys in northern Pennsylvania represent the continuation of the southwestward flow in central New York.

1920 East Atlantic Pilot (ed. 3) ii. 192 The light buoy has been moored to the southwestward side of this patch.

1998 D. O'Neill & E. A. Domingue Paddling Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge 2 Many prefer downstream routes, which take advantage of the slow southwestward flow.