westwardsadv.n.adj.

OE St. Mary of Egypt (Julius) (2002) 72 He þa his eagan bewende and þær soðlice man geseah westweardes on þæt westen efstan.

OE Charter: Bp. Wærferð to Æðelred & Æðelflæd (Sawyer 1280) in A. J. Robertson Anglo-Saxon Charters (1956) 36 Þonæ hagan..se is fram þære ea sylfre bi þæm norðwalle eastwardes xxviii roda lang, & þonon suþwardes xxiiii roda brad, & eft þonon westwardes on Sæferne xix roda long.

a1170 ( Bounds (Sawyer 404) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1887) II. 348 Ðonne suðan of esingburnan westweardes andlang dices.

1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 17 The way from the barres in Holborne westwardes to the farre ende of high holborn.

1581 W. Borough Discours Variation Cumpas xii. sig. G.iij From hence Westwardes to Meta Incognita.

1614 E. Wright Arte of Dialing sig. E1 An occidental Dial looketh directly West~wards.

1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie iv. ii. sig. Nnnn^v He sailed not Westwards [1621 Westward], but more towards the South.

1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea xxii. 487 The large River of St. Andrew..takes its course, according to the Negroes, Westwards.

1773 J. Wesley Short Rom. Hist. xi. 108 Constantius marched westwards to fight Vetranio.

1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott IV. viii. 263 He proceeded to thread his way westwards, across moor and bog, until we lost view of him.

1854 R. G. Latham Native Races Russ. Empire 256 Dialectual varieties increase as we go westwards.

1890 F. D. Lugard Diary 10 Nov. (1959) I. 362 Endless big-game tracks led westwards now.

1915 J. Buchan Nelson's Hist. War V. 126 The bulk of the Russian army went westwards to reinforce the van.

1969 V. Bartlett Past of Pastimes ix. 109 Cards might have come to Western Europe with the gipsies..when they trekked westwards across the Danubian plain.

2005 M. Lewycka Short Hist. Tractors in Ukrainian xxvii. 280 Our educated youth fly westwards in search of wealth.

c1430 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1868) l. 2581 Westwardis [c1405 Hengwrt westward] thorugh þe gatys..Arcite & ek the hunderit of hese parte..is enteryd.

1578 W. Bourne Treasure for Traueilers ii. iii. f.7 If that it be more degrees [than 180 degrees east] then it is Westwardes from you.

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. vii. 37 b A mountaine Westwards, and fiue miles from the Citie.

1599 E. Wright tr. S. Stevin Hauen-finding Art 11 Helmshude (which place is Westwards from the North Cape of Finmark).

1637 T. Morton New Eng. Canaan ii. x. 96 Westwards from the Massachussets bay..is scituated a very spacious Lake.

1686 tr. Relation Invasion Florida xxvii. 139 From the great River Westwards the Nuts differ from those of the other Provinces, for they are soft and shaped like an Akorn.

1735 A. Collins Peerage Eng. I. 179 [He] was constituted Admiral of the Navy in the Cinque-Ports, and from the Mouth of the Thames Westwards.

1783 W. Tooke tr. J. G. Georgi Russia IV. 379 Behind Besrodnaia, westwards, following the shore of the Volga, is a large Tartarian village.

1854 tr. H. Hettner Athens & Peloponnese 162 Westwards yonder, towards the sea, lies Lerna.

1877 J. C. McCoan Egypt as it Is i. 13 A branch of the river that once passed in this direction and entered the sea westwards of Alexandria.

1916 J. Douie Panjab, N.W. Frontier Province & Kashmir ii. 24 Westwards of the Tochí valley the country rises into lofty mountains.

1985 Times 2 Nov. 25/3 The second development..lies westwards off the Fuengirola to Mijas road.

2007 S. Mitchell Hist. Later Rom. Empire ix. 321 The coastline westwards towards the Atlantic is a barricade of cliffs and mountains.

?1574 W. Bourne Regiment for Sea xvi. sig. M To the Westwards of your towne.

1581 W. Borough Discours Variation Cumpas x. sig. F.iij Whereas the Narue..should be from S. Nicholas..to the Westwardes.

1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 28^v Vpon the North coast, and to the Westwards of Foy, few or none are taken.

1669 Earl of Winchelsea True Relation Mt. Ætna 22 The other Torrent..in probability could not easily overflow to the Westwards.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Wind The Easterly Trade-Winds blowing to the Westwards thereof.

1786 tr. J. R. Forster Hist. Voy. & Discov. North 193 Shaping our course to the westwards, we discovered several islands.

1859 H. Martineau Eng. & her Soldiers iii. 64 The junction at the westwards of the surrounding hills precluded any sufficient ventilation.

1915 E. W. Barlow tr. A. Berget Earth x. 329 The storms of wind and rain which come upon us in Europe nearly always from the westwards.

1965 W. G. East Geogr. behind Hist. vi. 85 The alluvium..is carried to the westwards by the anti-clockwise currents.

1977 R. Higham in G. Jordan Naval Warfare 20th Cent. vi. 99 If the ship could also be used to the westwards against U-boats, then a heavy bombload and a 75-mm gun were..important.

2004 D. Brown Road to Oran xxii. 199 The increasingly accurate fire of the shore batteries resulted in the British ships turning away to reverse track to the westwards.

1838 J. Rooke Geol. as Sci. ii. 57 The results of an eastwards motion of the earth, and consequently a westwards current of the ocean,..are here distinctly demonstrated.

1937 Times 27 Feb. 14/1 She [sc. the trawler] was to take part in a westwards fishing voyage.

1998 M. J. Attrill Rehabilitated Estuarine Ecosystem vi. 108 A slightly lower sand fraction than the large north shore areas discussed earlier, probably due to their more westwards location.