Also 4 weste. [f. WEST adv.] intr. To move towards the west. Chiefly of the sun: To draw near to the west, to sink in the west.
c. 1381. Chaucer, Parl. Foules, 266. On a bed of gold sche lay to reste Tyl that the hote sunne gan to weste. Ibid. (c. 1385), L. G. W., 61. Whanne the sunne be-gynnys for to weste.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., V. Introd. viii. Foure times his place he shifted hath in sight, And twice has risen, where he now doth West, And wested twice, where he ought rise aright.
1607. Walkington, Optic Glass, 162. Phœbus beginneth low to west.
1807. J. Barlow, Columb., X. 213. From Mohawk’s mouth, far westing with the sun, Thro all the midlands recent channels run.
1888. Doughty, Arabia Deserta, I. 443. The sun at length westing to the valley brow.
1889. in F. W. H. Myers, Human Personality (1903), II. 340. A ship going round the world making east all the way would gain a day, and by westing would lose one.
