westeringn.

Brit.

/ˈwɛst(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈwɛstərɪŋ/

Forms: see wester v. and -ing suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: wester v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < wester v. + -ing suffix¹.

rare before 19th cent.

Westward movement or drift; esp. the decline of the sun towards the west.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > West > [noun] > movement

westeringa1500

westinga1605

a1500 (?a1422) J. Lydgate Life Our Lady (Ashm. 39) lxxi. lf. 89 This sterre..To shewe his light in euery shrowed & shade With oute westrynge or drawynge to declyne.

1849 H. Alford Greek Test. I. 189/2 The interval between the first westering of the sun (3 p.m.) and his setting.

1856 J. W. King Characters & Incidents 172 It is like..the westering of the sun in a flood of golden beauty.

1910 Iowa Jrnl. Hist. 8 474 The westering of the Indian tribes represents the force and volume of the western wave of pioneer migration.

1999 W. L. Heat Moon River Horse xii. 491 We rolled northward up the forty-mile deviation of the Columbia makes [sic] from its westering.

2007 S. T. Russell Under Enemy Colors xxii. 346 A shortage of skilled seamen and the relentless westering of the sun meant the work could not be done to Hayden's standards.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

westeringadj.

Brit.

/ˈwɛst(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈwɛstərɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: wester v., -ing suffix².

Etymology: < wester v. + -ing suffix².

a. Of the sun or other celestial object: that declines towards the west. Hence: of or relating to sun as it declines towards the west. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > heavenly body > movement of heavenly bodies > [adjective] > moving west

westering1645

1645 J. Milton Lycidas (rev. ed.) in Poems 76 Oft till the Star that rose, at Ev'ning, bright, Toward Heav'ns descent had slop'd his westering wheel.

1731 S. Boyse Transl. & Poems 72 The Westering Sun into the Main declines.

1789 Bell's Classical Arrangem. Fugitive Poetry IV. vii. 63 Each loftier oak..Detains, athwart th'impurpling haze, The golden glance of westering rays.

1851 E. B. Browning Casa Guidi Windows i. x. 28 Learn The strong man's impulse..and discern By his clear, westering eye, the time of day.

1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede III. vi. liii. 286 The low westering sun shone right on the shoulders of the old Binton Hills.

1894 R. D. Blackmore Perlycross I. vii. 104 By the light of the westering moon.

1917 Musical Times May 201/2 Many a time have we seen some sacred pile of hoary antiquity bathed in a roseate sea of westering light.

1948 ‘R. Crompton’ Family Roundabout xxiii. 265 The westering sun raked the garden with slanting rays.

1989 D. Duane My Enemy, my Ally xx. 306 The summer Triangle, Deneb and Vega and Altair, lay westering low.

1991 A. Blair More Tea at Miss Cranston's xiv. 161 Recollections..can trick us in our westering years.

2000 Church Times 9 June 28/3 A westering sun slips from sight,..firing the waterlogged fields.

b. gen. Chiefly literary. That moves or faces towards the west; lying to the west; westward.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > West > [adjective] > moving

westering1747

westwardly1764

westbound1847

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > current > [adjective] > flowing in specific direction

westering1747

outsetting1763

western1814

head1829

south-easterly1883

1747 W. Collins Odes 28 Mona,..Where thousand Elfin Shapes abide, And Wight who checks the west'ring Tide.

1781 R. Polwhele in Wks. T. Wilson I. p. cxxxvii Where Mona cloath'd with many a shade O'erbrows the Westering wave.

1845 M. W. Savage Falcon Family vi. 42 The westering wheels of their cab soon transported them to Charing-cross.

1871 A. C. Swinburne Songs before Sunrise 66 Asia, that sawest their westering waters sweep With all the ships and spoils of time to carry.

1921 T. Williams Turkey i. 3 The dwellers on the great Russian plains and in the westering lands of Europe.

1989 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 29 Jan. x. 1/2 Manhattan's westering building boom reaches a street that has long stood for neglect and decay.

2007 Guardian (Nexis) 25 Aug. 34 The slant path..leads to a sunken, westering lane that rounds the hill.

c. Of a person: that travels or migrates west across North America (chiefly with reference to the westward expansion of the United States and Canada in the 19th cent.). Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > migration > [adjective] > migrating > within country

westering1837

in-migrant1943

1837 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 26 July (headline) Letters from a westering wanderer.

1867 Chambers's Jrnl. 31 Aug. 546/2 Thank God for Westering men, for what would America an' the future be without 'em?

1922 D. L. Sharp Educ. in Democracy iv. 127 He had for teachers his father's tools, the prairie, the westering pioneers, the great river,..and the Bible.

1955 Western Polit. Q. 8 401 The westering, equalitarian, pluralistic American background, which bolstered the capacity to govern and enabled nationalism and democracy to thrive side by side.

1998 Canad. Geographic Mar. 29/2 From the Cree language westering travellers borrowed the cooking practice and the verb, to ponask.

2. Of a wind: blowing from the west, or shifting in this direction.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [adjective] > changeable > shifting in specific direction

northering1801

westering1819

1819 ‘B. Cornwall’ Dramatic Scenes & Other Poems 23 Green woods..shall bend 'fore some faint westering wind.

1885 Chambers's Jrnl. 15 Aug. 513/1 A coble is running free across our bows before a westering breeze.

1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 70 There comes no good o' the westering wind that backs against the sun.

1928 Pop. Sci. Monthly July 32/1 A westering wind at sundown drove the ice pack out beyond the point.

2008 P. M. Mestern Granite ii. 61 The rustling of leaves, as a westering wind passed through the trees, accompanied the clip-clop of hooves.

3. Favouring the practice or policy of western European nations; westernizing, pro-Western. rare.

ΚΠ

1920 H. G. Wells Outl. Hist. 555/1 There were but the outward and visible symbols of his [sc. Peter the Great's] westering tendencies.

1992 N. Leask Brit. Romantic Writers & East iii. 228 The repressed fear of the Eurocentric myth of a ‘westering’ civilization.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	westering
释义	westeringn. Brit. /ˈwɛst(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈwɛstərɪŋ/ Forms: see wester v. and -ing suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: wester v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < wester v. + -ing suffix¹. rare before 19th cent. Westward movement or drift; esp. the decline of the sun towards the west. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > West > [noun] > movement westeringa1500 westinga1605 a1500 (?a1422) J. Lydgate Life Our Lady (Ashm. 39) lxxi. lf. 89 This sterre..To shewe his light in euery shrowed & shade With oute westrynge or drawynge to declyne. 1849 H. Alford Greek Test. I. 189/2 The interval between the first westering of the sun (3 p.m.) and his setting. 1856 J. W. King Characters & Incidents 172 It is like..the westering of the sun in a flood of golden beauty. 1910 Iowa Jrnl. Hist. 8 474 The westering of the Indian tribes represents the force and volume of the western wave of pioneer migration. 1999 W. L. Heat Moon River Horse xii. 491 We rolled northward up the forty-mile deviation of the Columbia makes [sic] from its westering. 2007 S. T. Russell Under Enemy Colors xxii. 346 A shortage of skilled seamen and the relentless westering of the sun meant the work could not be done to Hayden's standards. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). westeringadj. Brit. /ˈwɛst(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈwɛstərɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: wester v., -ing suffix². Etymology: < wester v. + -ing suffix². 1. a. Of the sun or other celestial object: that declines towards the west. Hence: of or relating to sun as it declines towards the west. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > heavenly body > movement of heavenly bodies > [adjective] > moving west westering1645 1645 J. Milton Lycidas (rev. ed.) in Poems 76 Oft till the Star that rose, at Ev'ning, bright, Toward Heav'ns descent had slop'd his westering wheel. 1731 S. Boyse Transl. & Poems 72 The Westering Sun into the Main declines. 1789 Bell's Classical Arrangem. Fugitive Poetry IV. vii. 63 Each loftier oak..Detains, athwart th'impurpling haze, The golden glance of westering rays. 1851 E. B. Browning Casa Guidi Windows i. x. 28 Learn The strong man's impulse..and discern By his clear, westering eye, the time of day. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede III. vi. liii. 286 The low westering sun shone right on the shoulders of the old Binton Hills. 1894 R. D. Blackmore Perlycross I. vii. 104 By the light of the westering moon. 1917 Musical Times May 201/2 Many a time have we seen some sacred pile of hoary antiquity bathed in a roseate sea of westering light. 1948 ‘R. Crompton’ Family Roundabout xxiii. 265 The westering sun raked the garden with slanting rays. 1989 D. Duane My Enemy, my Ally xx. 306 The summer Triangle, Deneb and Vega and Altair, lay westering low. 1991 A. Blair More Tea at Miss Cranston's xiv. 161 Recollections..can trick us in our westering years. 2000 Church Times 9 June 28/3 A westering sun slips from sight,..firing the waterlogged fields. b. gen. Chiefly literary. That moves or faces towards the west; lying to the west; westward. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > West > [adjective] > moving westering1747 westwardly1764 westbound1847 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > current > [adjective] > flowing in specific direction westering1747 outsetting1763 western1814 head1829 south-easterly1883 1747 W. Collins Odes 28 Mona,..Where thousand Elfin Shapes abide, And Wight who checks the west'ring Tide. 1781 R. Polwhele in Wks. T. Wilson I. p. cxxxvii Where Mona cloath'd with many a shade O'erbrows the Westering wave. 1845 M. W. Savage Falcon Family vi. 42 The westering wheels of their cab soon transported them to Charing-cross. 1871 A. C. Swinburne Songs before Sunrise 66 Asia, that sawest their westering waters sweep With all the ships and spoils of time to carry. 1921 T. Williams Turkey i. 3 The dwellers on the great Russian plains and in the westering lands of Europe. 1989 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 29 Jan. x. 1/2 Manhattan's westering building boom reaches a street that has long stood for neglect and decay. 2007 Guardian (Nexis) 25 Aug. 34 The slant path..leads to a sunken, westering lane that rounds the hill. c. Of a person: that travels or migrates west across North America (chiefly with reference to the westward expansion of the United States and Canada in the 19th cent.). Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > migration > [adjective] > migrating > within country westering1837 in-migrant1943 1837 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 26 July (headline) Letters from a westering wanderer. 1867 Chambers's Jrnl. 31 Aug. 546/2 Thank God for Westering men, for what would America an' the future be without 'em? 1922 D. L. Sharp Educ. in Democracy iv. 127 He had for teachers his father's tools, the prairie, the westering pioneers, the great river,..and the Bible. 1955 Western Polit. Q. 8 401 The westering, equalitarian, pluralistic American background, which bolstered the capacity to govern and enabled nationalism and democracy to thrive side by side. 1998 Canad. Geographic Mar. 29/2 From the Cree language westering travellers borrowed the cooking practice and the verb, to ponask. 2. Of a wind: blowing from the west, or shifting in this direction. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [adjective] > changeable > shifting in specific direction northering1801 westering1819 1819 ‘B. Cornwall’ Dramatic Scenes & Other Poems 23 Green woods..shall bend 'fore some faint westering wind. 1885 Chambers's Jrnl. 15 Aug. 513/1 A coble is running free across our bows before a westering breeze. 1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 70 There comes no good o' the westering wind that backs against the sun. 1928 Pop. Sci. Monthly July 32/1 A westering wind at sundown drove the ice pack out beyond the point. 2008 P. M. Mestern Granite ii. 61 The rustling of leaves, as a westering wind passed through the trees, accompanied the clip-clop of hooves. 3. Favouring the practice or policy of western European nations; westernizing, pro-Western. rare. ΚΠ 1920 H. G. Wells Outl. Hist. 555/1 There were but the outward and visible symbols of his [sc. Peter the Great's] westering tendencies. 1992 N. Leask Brit. Romantic Writers & East iii. 228 The repressed fear of the Eurocentric myth of a ‘westering’ civilization. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1500adj.1645
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